Museums in France

Explore the art and history of intricate, hand-crafted tile designs at this small museum.

The home where the famous astrologer wrote some of his most telling prophecies.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

Explore the 500-year history of silk-making in Lyon at this museum, workshop, and boutique.

This museum preserves over-the-top masterpieces that once qualified artisans for membership into a medieval guild.

Inside this museum, Christians were imprisoned when the Romans controlled Gaul.

The cellar of a former factory is now home to a collection of gloves, machines, and tools of the trade.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.

A charming little museum founded by the designer of the Statue of Liberty.

This pair of running lions engraved on animal bone is one of the earliest artistic depictions of big cats.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

This prehistoric figurine is the oldest known realistic depiction of a human face.

The shape of this old salt factory complex was inspired by the course of the Sun.