Paris is an excellent place to be on the first Sunday of each month. Did you know that most of the museums are free to enter on this magical day?
That’s right, you can get up close and personal with the works of Picasso, Monet, Van Gogh (and LOADS more) without spending a centime.
The following museums are all free (the Louvre and the Musee Rodin are too, but only on the first Sundays between October and March).
(If you’re in Paris on any other day, here’s The Earful’s list of the best free thing to do in each Paris arrondissement.)
Free museums on the first Sunday
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
That’s it for now, happy museum visiting. If you’re struggling to choose which one to visit, why not check out these two posts about museums.
Five of the best smaller museums in Paris
The best Paris museums to visit (in four days)
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