Paris is an excellent place to be on the first Sunday of each month. Many people don’t realize that most of the museums are free on the first Sunday of each month.
That’s right, you can get up close and personal with Picasso, Monet, and Van Gogh (and LOADS more) without spending a centime.
The following museums are all free (the Louvre and the Musee Rodin are also, but onlt on the month’s first Sunday between October and March):
(If you’re in Paris on any other day, here’s our list of the best free thing to do in each Paris arrondissement.)
But as for today:
1 rue de la Légion d’Honneur, Paris 7th – Metro Solférino / Musée d’Orsay
60 rue Réaumur, Paris 16th – Metro Arts et Métiers
Hôtel de Mongelas – 62 rue des Archives, Paris 3rd – Metro Hôtel de Ville / Châtelet – Les Halles
6 rue de Furstenberg, Paris 6th – Metro Saint-Germain-des-Prés / Saint-Michel – Notre-Dame
14 rue de la Rochefoucauld, Paris 9th – Metro Trinité
Place Georges Pompidou, Paris 4th – Metro Hôtel de Ville / Châtelet – Les Halles
43 avenue de Villiers, Paris 17th – Metro Malesherbes
6 place Paul Painlevé, Paris 5th – Metro Cluny – La Sorbonne / Saint-Michel – Notre-Dame
Jardin des Tuileries, Paris 1st – Metro Concorde
Hôtel Salé – 5 rue de Thorigny, Paris 3rd – Metro Saint-Paul / Châtelet – Les Halles
Palais de Chaillot – 1 place du Trocadéro et du 11 novembre, Paris 16th – Metro Trocadéro / Champ de Mars – Tour Eiffel
293 avenue Daumesnil, Paris 12th – Metro Porte Dorée
37 quai Branly Portail Debilly, Paris 7th – Metro Alma – Marceau / Pont de l’Alma
6 place d’Iéna, Paris 16th – Metro Iéna
In Ile-de-France:
Place Charles de Gaulle, 78 – RER Saint-Germain-en-Laye
14 rue du Port, 92 – Metro Boulogne – Pont de Saint-Cloud
28 avenue André-Morizet, 92 – Metro Marcel Sembat
Place du Général de Gaulle, 60
Route des Granges, 78 – RER Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse
Avenue du Château, 92 – RER Rueil Malmaison
Place de la Manufacture, 92 – Pont de Sèvres
Château d’Ecouen, 95 – Garges – Sarcelles
2 bis rue Maurice Denis, 78 – RER Saint-Germain-en-Laye
16 rue Auguste Gervais, 92 – Metro Mairie d’Issy
Place de la Libération, 94 400 Vitry-sur-Seine