All historic houses to visit in Paris

Step into the past at 34 historic houses in Paris. These preserved homes offer a glimpse into the lives of notable figures and everyday people from different eras.

Are you interested in exploring historic homes? Here are the must-see historic houses in Paris:

  1. Arc de Triomphe1

    Arc de Triomphe

     Paris
    The Arc de Triomphe, a historic monument, is situated in the heart of Charles de Gaulle Square, on the western side of the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France. The monument stands at a height of 45 meters, a width of 22 meters, and a length of 49 meters. This iconic structure is a significant symbol of French history and a prominent landmark in the city.
  2. Palais Garnier2

    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.
  3. Château de Vincennes3

    Château de Vincennes

     Paris
    The Château de Vincennes is a significant historical site, once serving as a royal residence. It is situated just east of Paris, within the municipality of Vincennes. This location offers visitors the opportunity to explore a piece of French royal history while also enjoying the surrounding area of Vincennes.
  4. Panthéon4

    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.
  5. Hôtel de la Marine5

    Hôtel de la Marine

     Paris
    The Hôtel de la Marine, also known as Hôtel du Garde-Meuble, is a historic building situated in the heart of Paris. It is located in the famous Place de la Concorde, to the east of Rue Royale. This location makes it easily accessible and a convenient stop for tourists exploring the city.
  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. Musee des Arts Forains7

    Musee des Arts Forains

     Paris
    The Musée des Arts Forains - Collection Jean-Paul Favand is a private museum in Paris that is dedicated to funfair objects. The museum holds and exhibits a collection of objects from 1850 and 1950, including 14 amusement rides, 16 fair stalls and restored attractions, 18 sets of historical works, a
  8. Musée Carnavalet8

    Musée Carnavalet

     Paris
    The Musée Carnavalet is the museum in Paris for the history of the city with a very wide collection. The museum consists of the Hôtel de Carnavalet and the Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, together accounting for around a hundred rooms. The Hôtel Carnavalet was built in 1548 by Count Jacques des
  9. Expiatory Chapel9

    Expiatory Chapel

     Paris
    The Expiatory Chapel, or Chapelle expiatoire, is situated in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. This location is easily accessible and is surrounded by other notable Parisian landmarks, making it a convenient stop for tourists exploring the city.
  10. Musée de Montmartre10

    Musée de Montmartre

     Paris
    The Musée de Montmartre museum in Paris maps the bohemian history of Montmartre (a large hill in Paris). It is located in a building that dates back to the 17th century where painters such as Renoir lived and worked. The collection consists of a series of paintings, posters, photographs and various
  11. Maison de Victor Hugo11

    Maison de Victor Hugo

     Paris
    Visit the Maison de Victor Hugo where the famous writer who is one of the most famous representatives of Romanticism spent 16 years of his life, and enjoy its unique atmosphere. Each room in the apartment of Victor Hugo describes a certain period of his life in detail - before, during and after exil
  12. Museum of Jewish Art and History12

    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
  13. Musee Gustave Moreau13

    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
  14. Musée Bourdelle14

    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
  15. Musée des Archives Nationales15

    Musée des Archives Nationales

     Paris
    The Musée des Archives Nationales is a museum in Paris that is housed in the Hôtel de Soubise, with exhibitions with objects from the collections of the government archives. The museum aims to provide document-based perspective on the history and the evolution of French society. The museum organizes
  16. Museum of the Legion of Honor16

    Museum of the Legion of Honor

     Paris
    The Museum of the Legion of Honor (Musée national de la Légion d'honneur et des ordres de chevalerie) is a museum of orders of merit and orders of chivalry, housed in the Hôtel de Salm, built in 1782 by architect Pierre Rousseau for Frederick III, Prince of Salm-Kyrburg, in Paris. The collection of
  17. Musée Cognacq-Jay17

    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
  18. Musée Delacroix18

    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.
  19. Zadkine Museum19

    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
  20. Musée Curie20

    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
  21. Online discount!Musée des Monuments Français - Palais de Chaillot21

    Musée des Monuments Français - Palais de Chaillot

     Paris
    The Musée des Monuments Français is a museum in Paris that is housed in the Palais de Chaillot, an Art Deco palace that was built on the same spot where a similar palace already stood before. The original palace was built for the World's Fair 1878 while the present-day one was built for the EXPO 193
  22. Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner22

    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
  23. Gobelins Manufactory23

    Gobelins Manufactory

     Paris
    The Gobelins Manufactory is a traditional and renowned tapestry manufactory in Paris that was founded in 1607 as a private company and continued from 1667 as a Royal Tapestry Manufactory. From 1792 until today, the factory has been owned by the French state. Today it is a workshop where the tapestri
  24. Mona Bismarck American Center24

    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
  25. Pasteur Museum25

    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
  26. Pavillon de l'Arsenal26

    Pavillon de l'Arsenal

     Paris
    The Pavillon de l'Arsenal is a museum in Paris that is dedicated to architecture and urban planning and architecture in Paris and its surroundings. The museum building was built in 1878-1879 for wood merchant Laurent-Louis Borniche. The permanent exhibition in the Pavillon de l'Arsenal presents Pari
  27. Musée Clemenceau27

    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
  28. Musée du Général Leclerc de Hauteclocque et de la Libération de Paris - Musée Jean Moulin28

    Musée du Général Leclerc de Hauteclocque et de la Libération de Paris - Musée Jean Moulin

     Paris
    Musée du Général Leclerc de Hauteclocque et de la Libération de Paris - Musée Jean Moulin is a museum that is located on the roof garden of Gare Montparnasse in Paris. Exhibits in the museum include underground newspapers, propaganda posters of the Vichy regime, uniforms of the Marshal of Africa and
  29. Maison de Balzac29

    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
  30. History of Medicine Museum30

    History of Medicine Museum

     Paris
    The History of Medicine Museum in Paris (Musée d’histoire de la médecine) is a museum in Paris occupies the second floor of the Paris Descartes University. Its collections, the oldest in Europe, were brought together by professor Dean Lafaye in the 18th century, and an important collection was later
  31. Le Corbusier31

    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
  32. Musée du Parfum32

    Musée du Parfum

     Paris
    The Musée du Parfum in Paris (The Perfume Museum) is housed in a Napoleon III style mansion. It was built in 1860 by the architect Lesoufaché, a pupil of Garnier, famous for having built the opera of the same name located in front of the museum. Painted ceilings, parquet floors, romantic stuccoes, f
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    Théâtre-Musée des Capucines

     Paris
    The Théâtre-Musée des Capucines (Théâtre musée des Capucines-Fragonard) is a museum in Paris that is dedicated to perfume. The museum was created in 1993 by the Fragonard perfume company in a former theater called the Théâtre des Capucines that dates back to 1889. It exhibits 19th-century copper dis
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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