The Royal Collections Gallery shows the treasures of the kings of Spain in rotation, in a building set into the hill below the Royal Palace. Hours and tickets.
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid has the painters the Prado lacks, from Van Eyck to Van Gogh. The works to see, free Mondays and tickets.
Eight works to see at the Prado Museum, from Las Meninas to Goya’s Saturn, and how to get in free during the last two opening hours of every day.
The Museo Picasso Málaga opened in 2003 in the Palacio de Buenavista, above the walls of Phoenician Málaga. The collection, free Sundays, tickets.
The Museu Picasso in Barcelona tells the story of the young Picasso in five Gothic palaces: his training, the Blue Period, Las Meninas. Free times, tickets.
The Fundació Joan Miró opened in 1975 on Montjuïc, in a building by Josep Lluís Sert made of natural light and courtyards. What to see, opening hours, tickets.
The Paris Sewer Museum in 7 stops: the real tunnels under the quai d’Orsay, Belgrand and Haussmann and the route rebuilt in 2021.
The Musée de la Légion d’honneur in Paris in 7 stops: the hôtel de Salm that Jefferson fell for, the five thousand objects and the Spada room.
The Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris in 6 stops: the Mur des Noms with 75,568 names, the crypt and the fichier juif. Free, and closed on Saturdays.
The Catacombes de Paris in 8 stops: the quarries, Héricart de Thury’s walls of bones, the inscription over the door and what changed with the 2026 reopening.
The Palais de la Porte Dorée in 7 stops: the palace of 1931, the immigration museum reopened in 2023, the crocodile pit and the albino alligators.
The Musée Méliès at the Cinémathèque in 8 stops: the frame from Le Voyage dans la Lune, the hand-painted colours and the three tickets not to confuse.
The Musée de la musique in 6 instruments: the Ruckers harpsichord, the guitar signed by Paganini and Berlioz and the Érard harp with no known owner.
The Musée de Montmartre in 7 stops: Suzanne Valadon’s studio, the Jardins Renoir, the vineyard, the cabaret posters and the Rosimond legend undone.
The Musée Marmottan Monet in 4 works: Impression, soleil levant and its exact hour, the Water Lilies, Berthe Morisot’s self-portrait and the illuminations.
The Maison de Balzac in Passy in 7 stops: the table of the Comédie humaine, the coffee pot with a coronet, the rue Berton door and free entry.
The Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris: the spiral staircase, the studios with walls packed with paintings, and the ticket that also opens the Musée Henner.
The Hôtel de la Marine in Paris: the Intendant’s apartments, the loggia over the Concorde, the theft of the crown jewels and Victor Schœlcher’s desk.
The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris: Paolo Uccello’s Saint George, the Tiepolo above the staircase, Rembrandt and Mantegna in the house of two collectors.
The Musée de la Vie romantique in Paris, reopened in 2026: Ary Scheffer’s house, George Sand’s keepsakes, the cast of Chopin’s hand and the garden.
The Musée Jean-Jacques Henner in Paris: L’Alsace. Elle attend, the red-haired figures, the winter garden and the ticket that also opens the Musée Moreau.
The Grande Galerie de l’Évolution at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris in 7 stops: the caravane africaine, the lost species and 27 busts found in a cellar.
The museum of the Institut du monde arabe in Paris in 7 works: the blue Quran, the astrolabes, the caliph’s basin. It closes for a year from summer 2027.
The musée du 11 Conti at the Monnaie de Paris in 6 rooms: the foundry still at work, the Grand Monnayage, the treasures and when to see the workshops.
The Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris in 8 objects: Foucault’s pendulum in the medieval church, Cugnot’s fardier, the Pascaline and the pioneers’ aircraft.
The musée de la BnF on the Richelieu site in Paris: the Grand Camée de France, Voltaire’s heart, Dürer’s rhinoceros and the salle Ovale, which is free.
The Musée Cernuschi in Paris, the city’s museum of Asian arts: the Meguro Buddha, the Tigress, a revolutionary’s villa and a permanent collection that is free.
The Musée Curie in Paris in 6 stops: Marie Curie’s bureau and chemistry laboratory kept as they were, radium and the Fondation. It opens four days a week.
The 6 stops to see at the Cité de l’architecture in Paris, from the plaster casts of Romanesque portals to the copied frescoes, inside the Palais de Chaillot.
The 6 artworks to see at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, from Dufy’s Fée Électricité to Matisse’s two Danse, with a free permanent collection.
The 6 things to see at the Musée Guimet in Paris, from the head of Jayavarman VII to the nanban screen, and how the Maison Guimet is visited now.
The 6 things to see at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris, from the Venus of Lespugue to the nineteenth-century busts, in the Palais de Chaillot at the Trocadéro.
The 6 things to see at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris, reopened in 2023, from Vernet’s port of Marseille to the figureheads and the missing barge.
The Palais Galliera in Paris, the fashion museum: the duchess’s palace, the two hundred thousand pieces in store and why there is no permanent display.
The 6 works to see at the Musée Bourdelle in Paris, from the Héraklès archer to the twenty-one Beethovens, in free Montparnasse studios.
The 6 works to see at the Musée de Cluny in Paris, from the Lady and the Unicorn to the heads of the Kings of Judah, inside Roman baths and a Gothic mansion.
