Opened in 2007 in the eastern wing of the Palais de Chaillot, this architecture and heritage museum impresses principally by its scale. The expansive ground floor is filled...

Immigration in New York is commemorated on Ellis Island, in Québec at the Musée de la Civilisation. So what of the Paris region? Well, there's Parc Astérix - proof that all...

A clever blend of high-tech and Arab influences, this Seine-side grand projet was constructed between 1980 and 1987 to a design by Jean Nouvel. Shuttered windows, inspired by...

Airport-style security checks mean queues, but don't let that put you off: the Mémorial du Martyr Juif Inconnu is an impressively presented and moving memorial to the...

Topped by its gilded dome - a glorious sight when illuminated after dusk - the Hôtel des Invalides was (and in part still is) a hospital. Commissioned by Louis XIV for wounded...

This double museum retraces World War II and the Resistance through the Free French commander General Leclerc and left-wing hero Jean Moulin. Documentary material and film...

Here, 140 chronological rooms depict the history of Paris, from pre-Roman Gaul to the 20th century. Built in 1548 and transformed by Mansart in 1660, this fine house became a...

It's fitting that a museum of Judaism should be lodged in one of the grandest mansions of the Marais, for centuries the epicentre of local Jewish life. It sprung from the...

The history of medicine is the subject of the medical faculty collection. There are ancient Egyptian embalming tools, a 1960s electrocardiograph and a gruesome array of saws...

The history of Paris hospitals, from the days when they were receptacles for abandoned babies to the dawn of modern medicine, is shown through paintings, prints, and a mock...

Generally housed in one of the grandest Marais mansions, the Hôtel de Rohan, this museum is currently undergoing renovation. In the meantime, documents and artefacts covering...

Tucked away at the back of the French Masonic Great Lodge, this museum opened in 1973. It traces the history of French freemasonry, from stonemasons' guilds to prints of masons...

Housed in the handsome neo-classical mint built in the 1770s, this high-tech museum tells the tale of global and local coinage from its pre-Roman origins, using sophisticated...

From among the uniforms, pistols, carriages, official decrees and fumigation tongs emerge snippets of history: during the 1871 Siege of Paris, hot-air balloons and carrier...