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Phono Museum Paris
A treasure trove of audio technology, from wax cylinders to juke boxes and record players.
Paris, France
Mundolingua
A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.
Paris, France
Maison de Victor Hugo
A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.
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L'Atelier des Lumières (Workshop of Light)
An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.
Paris, France
Musée du quai Branly (Quai Branly Museum)
This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.
Paris, France
Le Chat Noir Collection
Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.
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Musée Edith Piaf
This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.
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Centre Pompidou
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Paris, France
Le Musée du Fumeur
Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.
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Musée Marmottan Monet
Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.
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Jean-Paul Marat's Bathtub at Musée Grévin
A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.
Paris, France
Musée de la Vie Romantique
Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.
Paris, France
Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
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Musée Curie
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.
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Musée des Arts et Métiers
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
Paris, France
Musée National de la Marine
Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.
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