Museums & galleries in France
Detourmap maps 318 museums & galleries worth the detour in France — art, history and science museums. The best known is Louvre Museum. The 150 most notable are listed here; the rest are on the map. Each has a photo and a Wikipedia article.
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Louvre Museum
Museums & galleries · 18th century · Iconic
Art and archeology museum in Paris, France
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Centre Georges Pompidou
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Renowned
National cultural center of contemporary art in Paris, France
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Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art
Museums & galleries · 21st century · Renowned
Museum of Contemporary art in France
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Musée des Arts et Métiers
Museums & galleries · 18th century · Renowned
Science and technology museum located in Paris, France
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Petit Palais
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Renowned
Building housing the Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris
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Beaux-Arts de Paris
Museums & galleries · 17th century · Renowned
National school of fine arts in France
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Musée d'art moderne de Paris
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Renowned
Museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries, Paris
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Louis Vuitton Foundation
Museums & galleries · 21st century · Notable
Art museum and cultural center
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Musée du quai Branly
Museums & galleries · 21st century · Notable
Museum for the traditional art of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas in Paris, France
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Arab World Institute
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Notable
French cultural institute dedicated to the Arab world
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Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Notable
Museum of contemporary art in Paris, France
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Condé Museum
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Notable
Museum in France in the Château de Chantilly
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Musée Fabre
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Notable
Municipal museum of Montpellier Urban Community
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Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations
Museums & galleries · 21st century · Notable
National museum of ethnology in Marseille, France
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Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Notable
Museum of Jewish art and history in Paris, France
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Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Notable
Museum of the decorative arts and design located in the Louvre's northwest wing, Paris
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Maison de Balzac
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Notable
Museum dedicated to the famous French writer Balzac
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BnF Museum
Museums & galleries · 16th century · Notable
Museum containing internationally important collections of coins, engraved gems, and antiquities
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Musée des Augustins
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Notable
Fine arts museum of Toulouse, France
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Musée Bourdelle
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Notable
Art museum in Paris, located in the old studio of Antoine Bourdelle
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Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Notable
Art museum in Lille, France
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon
Museums & galleries · 18th century · Notable
Art museum in Dijon, France
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Notable
Art museum in Rouen, France
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Palais de la Découverte
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Notable
Science museum in Paris, France
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Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Notable
Museum in Paris, France
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Notable
Museum in Strasbourg, France
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Palais Galliera
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Museum of fashion and fashion history located in Paris
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Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Marseille, France
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Fondation Maeght
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Art museum in France with sculpture garden by Joan Miró
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LaM (Lille Métropole musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut)
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
French Modern Art Museum
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Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Art museum in Nice, France
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National Museum of Prehistory in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum in France
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Museum of the French Revolution
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Art museum, design/textile museum, historic site in Dept. of Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
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Polish Library in Paris
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Polish cultural centre in France
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Museum of fine arts in Bordeaux, France
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Musée Granet
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Museum in the quartier Mazarin, Aix-en-Provence, France
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Galerie de Paléontologie et d'Anatomie comparée
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Museum
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Musée des Plans-Reliefs
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum of military models located within the Hôtel des Invalides, Paris
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Musée du Montparnasse
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Former art museum in Paris, France
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Musée des Arts décoratifs de Strasbourg
Museums & galleries · Hidden gem
Museum dedicated to decorative arts in Strasbourg, France
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours
Museums & galleries · 18th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Tours, France
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musée d'Art contemporain du Val-de-Marne
Museums & galleries · 21st century · Hidden gem
Museum in Vitry-sur-Seine, France
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Marseille History Museum
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
History museum in rue Henri-Barbusse Marseille
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Musée de la Contrefaçon
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum of counterfeiting in Paris, France
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Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Strasbourg, France
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Musée arménien de France
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum of Armenian art and archaeology located in Paris
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MuMa Museum of modern art André Malraux
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Le Havre, France
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Musée des Confluences
Museums & galleries · Hidden gem
Museum in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, France
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Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Museum in France
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Departmental Museum of archaeology Gilort (Jérôme) Carcopino
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum in France
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Cité du Vin
Museums & galleries · Hidden gem
Museum as well as a place of exhibitions, shows, movie projections and academic seminars on the theme of wine located in Bordeaux, France
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Musée de l'Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum dedicated to the history of Parisian hospitals
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Jules Verne Museum
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum dedicated to the French writer Jules Verne in Nantes, France
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Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Paris and in château de Chambord devoted to hunting and nature
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Contemporary Arts Museum of Lyon
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon, France
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Calvet Museum
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Museum of Fine Arts of Avignon (Vaucluse, France)
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Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Art museum in Paris, France
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Art museum in Caen, France
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Musée de la sculpture en plein air
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Paris, France
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Matisse museum
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France
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Museum of Fine Arts of Reims
Museums & galleries · 18th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Reims, France
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Musée de Tahiti et des Îles
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Ethnographic museum in Puna'auia, Tahiti
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Dinosauria
Museums & galleries · 20th century · Hidden gem
Museum devoted to dinosaurs in Espéraza, Aude, France
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Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro
Museums & galleries · 19th century · Hidden gem
Former museum of Paris
