When you're traveling it's also nice to add, inside your itinerary, different cultural stages, without detracting anything to the fun moments, that's why we decided to propose six museums to visit in Paris and that we think you should not miss, at least the majority of those that we have listed.
However, if you're looking for somthing more special other than museums, then we recommend you to read this article, on a few things that you probably don't know about Paris.
LOUVRE MUSEUM
In Paris is an institution, in fact, iyou can't leave Paris without visiting the Louvre. Get ready, because you might not be able to visit it in one day, but fortunately the ticket allows a second entrance the next day. Here you will find many pieces of art both architecture and painting, coming from different parts of the world. The building, where it is housed, was Louis XIV home until the transfer to Versaille.
MUSEUM OF ORSAY
The special feature of this museum is that it is housed in a former train station, here you can see many works of impressionism and post-impressionism period, to name a few artists who you surely know, here you can find the masterpieces of Monet, Cezanne, Manet and many others.
WEAPON MUSEUM
Inside of the Hôtel des Invalides buildings, there is the Musée de l'Armée, a military museum born from the merger of the Artillery Museum and the Historical Museum of Weapons. Inside you can admire a collection of weapons that reach the French Middle Ages. In these buildings then there is also the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte.
MUSEUM OF EROTICISM
Maybe particular, mainly because it develops in 7 floors and in each one you can admire works dedicated to eroticism, from continent to continent.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
In fact it was born after the French Revolution as the royal garden of medicinal plants, until then, in the '700, it was dedicated to the study of nature. Inside also we organize temporary exhibitions, so surely you never get bored!
PICASSO MUSEUM
An art gallery which houses the works of the great painter Pablo Picasso (more than 3,000), but in addition to the exposed works, it's also to be admired the building where it is located, Palace Salé, building the was born by the behest of Pierre Aubert, a taxes debt collector, and designed by Jean Boullier of Bourges. One of the best buildings of the Marais according to many.
WHERE TO STAY IN PARIS
If you are looking for a place to sleep while visiting these six museums in Paris, then we may advise you to stay at Hostel Blue Planet
the Auberge Internationale des Jeunes
or the 3 Ducks Hostel
all three hostels very well positioned, also the last has even a bar!
Cover Photo by Skeeze
