Museums · Paris
Musée Carnavalet
The history of Paris itself, told inside two Marais mansions — free to enter.
Opening hours, admission and address
- Address
- 23 Rue Madame de Sévigné
- Opening hours
- Tue–Sun10:00–18:00
- Admission
- The permanent collections are free and need no booking; only temporary exhibitions are ticketed, and only advance booking guarantees you into one. Closed Mondays and on 1 January, 1 May and 25 December; the ticket desk shuts about forty-five minutes before the museum does.
- Category
- Museums
- Official website
- carnavalet.paris.fr
- Coordinates
48.85732, 2.36247
Where it is
Walk it with the guide
Musée Carnavalet is one of 17 stops on Paris Essentials. The guide adds the story behind it, the detail worth crossing the square for, and the tip that only someone who has stood here would write down.
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