All person & artist museums to visit in Paris

Explore the lives and works of notable individuals at 29 museums in Paris dedicated to specific persons and artists. These museums offer a deep dive into their contributions and legacy.

Are you curious about the lives of remarkable individuals? Here are the top person and artist museums in Paris:

  1. Palais Garnier1

    Palais Garnier

     Paris
    The Opéra Garnier, also known as Palais Garnier, is an opera house in Paris. It is located in the 9th arrondissement and is one of the most striking buildings in the French capital. This architectural masterpiece is a must-see for anyone visiting Paris, offering a glimpse into the city's rich cultural and artistic history.
  2. Panthéon2

    Panthéon

     Paris
    The Panthéon, located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, is a significant historical monument. Originally, it was constructed as a church dedicated to Sainte-Geneviève in the 18th century. The architect behind this grand structure was Jacques Germain Soufflot. His vision was to create a classical building with the lightness of a Gothic cathedral. However, due to structural reasons, the open walls were made more massive during construction.
  3. Musée Rodin3

    Musée Rodin

     Paris
    Visit the former workshop of the founder of modern sculpting - Auguste Rodin. Opened in 1919, the Musée Rodin museum houses a great collection of his works. The exhibition includes more than 6000 of Rodin's sculptures, as well as his drawings and photographs. Be sure to explore the adjacent garden a
  4. Dalí Paris4

    Dalí Paris

     Paris
    Dalí Paris, previously known as Espace Dalí, is a museum situated in Paris, France. It is conveniently located near the renowned Place du Tertre, in the Montmartre area. This location is not only famous for its artistic history but also for its vibrant and bohemian atmosphere, making it an interesting area to explore before or after your visit to the museum.
  5. Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris5

    Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris

     Paris
    The Musée Yves-Saint-Laurent Paris is a museum dedicated to the renowned fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. It is situated at 5, avenue Marceau, in the very building where the fashion house was once located. This location adds a layer of authenticity and historical significance to the museum, making it a unique destination for those interested in fashion and the life and work of Yves Saint Laurent.
  6. Musee Jacquemart-André6

    Musee Jacquemart-André

     Paris
    The Jacquemart-André Museum (Musee Jacquemart-André) is a museum in a former private hotel (city palace) in Paris. Its collection is brought together by a private collector; Édouard André in 1875. He mainly collected works by old Italian masters, which he bought with his wife Nélie Jacquemart. His w
  7. Online discount!Grevin Museum7

    Grevin Museum

     Paris
    The Grevin Museum (Musée Grévin) in Paris was established in 1882 and is one of Europe's oldest wax museums. The Grevin Museum has around 450 waxworks of French and internationally renowned people such as Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Elton John, Vladimir Putin, Louis de Funès, Stromae, Nolwenn Leroy a
  8. Musée Picasso Paris8

    Musée Picasso Paris

     Paris
    The Picasso Museum in Paris (Musée Picasso Paris) is housed in the Hotel Salé, where it gives an overview of the work of Pablo Picasso. The collection by Picasso is the largest collection in the world of works by Picasso, who spent a large part of his life in France and is organized thematically. In
  9. Museum of Jewish Art and History9

    Museum of Jewish Art and History

     Paris
    The Museum of Jewish Art and History (Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme) is a museum in Paris that is housed in the Hôtel de St-Aignan in Le Marais, where it brings together a number of collections that were previously spread throughout Paris. It is dedicated to French-Jewish culture from the Mi
  10. Musee Gustave Moreau10

    Musee Gustave Moreau

     Paris
    The Musée Gustave-Moreau (Gustave Moreau Museum) is an art museum in Paris that is dedicated to the works of the painter Gustave Moreau (1826-1898). The building that houses the museum was originally Moreau's apartment. In 1895, the artist had it converted into a studio and a museum for his works. T
  11. Musée Bourdelle11

    Musée Bourdelle

     Paris
    Musée Bourdelle is a museum in Paris that is located in the former residence and studio of the French sculptor Émile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929). The museum exhibits an important art collection of his work. It was founded in 1949. Like Auguste Rodin, Antoine Bourdelle wanted to leave a museum at t
  12. Musée Cernuschi12

    Musée Cernuschi

     Paris
    The Musée Cernuschi is a museum in Paris that is dedicated to Asian arts with a collection that focuses on the Far East: China, Japan, Korea. The Italian-French politician and economist Henri Cernuschi had left his collections in 1896 to the city of Paris, after which the Musée Cernuschi was opened
  13. Musée Maillol13

    Musée Maillol

     Paris
    The Musée Maillol is a private art museum founded in 1995 in Paris. The museum holds and exhibits a collection of works of French sculptor, painter, and printmaker Aristide Maillol and other works of art from the period of the 20th century. Furthermore, temporary exhibitions are organized in the mus
  14. Musée Cognacq-Jay14

    Musée Cognacq-Jay

     Paris
    The Musée Cognacq-Jay is an art museum in Paris that was founded by Marie-Louise Jaÿ (1838-1925) and her husband Ernest Cognacq (1839-1928). The founders and owners of the La Samaritaine department store built a large collection of valuable furniture and works of art from between 1900 and 1925. The
  15. Musée Delacroix15

    Musée Delacroix

     Paris
    The Musée national Eugène Delacroix (Musée Delacroix) is a museum in Paris that is dedicated to the French Romantic artist regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school Eugène Delacroix. The museum is located in the former home of Delacroix, where both his studio and apartment can be visited.
  16. Atelier Brancusi16

    Atelier Brancusi

     Paris
    Atelier Brancusi is a French glyptotheque that is related to the Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture in Paris. Located on Georges Pompidou Square, it is designed to reproduce the studio of the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi. It is a national museum of modern art in Paris.
  17. Zadkine Museum17

    Zadkine Museum

     Paris
    The Zadkine Museum (Musée Zadkine) is a small museum in Paris with works by Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967), a Russian-born artist who lived in France. The museum is located in the house and studio where he lived and worked from 1928 until his death. There are around 400 sculptures, gouaches, works on pap
  18. Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson18

    Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

     Paris
    The Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation is a private foundation in Paris that is dedicated to the memory, preservation and enhancement of the photographic work of Henri Cartier-Bresson (a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film) and his wi
  19. Musée Curie19

    Musée Curie

     Paris
    The Musée Curie in Paris is a historical museum dedicated to radiological research. The museum is housed in the former laboratory of Marie Curie (a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity). The laboratory was built 1911-1914 and Marie Cu
  20. Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner20

    Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner

     Paris
    The Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner is an art museum in Paris that houses works by Jean Jacques Henner, a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects, and portraits. The house is decorated with personal items such as furniture, carpets and ha
  21. Mona Bismarck American Center21

    Mona Bismarck American Center

     Paris
    The American socialite, fashion icon and philanthropist Countess Mona von Bismarck donated her Parisian townhouse and the majority of her estate to found the Mona Bismarck Foundation. The Mona Bismarck American Center in Paris aims to engage visitors in a dialogue with the depth and diversity of the
  22. Pasteur Museum22

    Pasteur Museum

     Paris
    The Musée Pasteur (Pasteur Museum) is a museum in Paris that is dedicated to Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), who was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. The museum is located in the Pasteu
  23. Musée Clemenceau23

    Musée Clemenceau

     Paris
    The Musée Clemenceau is a house museum in Paris that preserves the apartment and garden of Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929), who was a French politician who was Prime Minister of France during the First World War, who lived here from 1895 until his death. The museum preserves the apartment as it was w
  24. Maison de Balzac24

    Maison de Balzac

     Paris
    The Maison de Balzac is a writer's museum in paris that is dedicated to the person of Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), who lived and wrote here for a long time. The house with its large garden is the only Parisian residence of Balzac that has been preserved. Balzac wrote La Comédie humaine (The Human C
  25. Le Corbusier25

    Le Corbusier

     Paris
    Fondation Le Corbusier is a foundation and archive honoring the work of architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965) that is housed in Villa La Roche, also Maison La Roche, in Paris. La Roche commissioned Le Corbusier to build a villa as well as a gallery to house his art collection. It now houses a museum th
  26. Fondation Custodia26

    Fondation Custodia

     Paris
    The Fondation Custodia is a foundation in Paris that was founded in 1947, located in the Hôtel Turgot, that manages the collection of Frits Lugt, a self-taught collector and connoisseur of Dutch drawings and prints. Frits Lugt started his collection of drawings in the thirties. The collection compri
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    Edith Piaf Museum

     Paris
    The Édith Piaf Museum is a private museum in Paris that is dedicated to Edith Piaf, who was a French singer, songwriter, cabaret performer and film actress and one of the country's most widely known international stars. The museum exhibits memorabilia of the artist: photographs, letters, scores, pos
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    Phono Museum

     Paris
    The phonograph is the first consumer product to have entered homes before radio and electricity. Today, the music industry is ubiquitous in our lives through television, radio, download sites, records and music broadcasting in most public places. In Paris, the Phono Museum illustrates the different
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    Musée de la Magie

     Paris
    The Musée de la Magie (Musée de la Curiosité et de la Magie, or Académie de la Magie) is a museum in Paris that is housed in the 16th-century cellars beneath Marquis de Sade's house, who was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer, famous for his libertine sexuality. The