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Often used as a destination for romantic breaks, Paris is home to some of the world’s biggest and best museums, as well. It houses some of the oldest historic museums in the world with the Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, La Piscine, and Musée Rodin being four of the most popular.

The Louvre will be the first one looked at, and it’s with good reason, with the building being the world’s most visited art museum. Housing an estimated 35,000 pieces from the 6th millennium BCE to the 19th century CE, the museum was originally built as a fortress by Phillip II. It wasn’t until the French Revolution that the purpose of the building was changed, with the National Assembly deciding that all of France’s masterpieces should be displayed there. The museum has plenty of departments with decorative arts, Egyptian antiques, Islamic art, Near Eastern antiques, paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures all on display. With the museum stretching over a staggering 15,000 acres, this national landmark is definitely one to view for a day.

Another recommendation is the Musée d'Orsay. Unlike the Louvre, this museum is located on the left bank, or the opposite side of the Seine. Again, it’s one of the most popular art museums in France, although it mainly just covers French art created between 1848 and 1915. Famous painters Monet and Renoir have a lot of work based in this museum, which also holds sculptures, furniture, and photography. The surroundings of this museum are beautiful, with the building being a former train station. It was decided in 1977 to convert it to a museum, and under the guidance of architect Gae Aulenti, the French built a museum that’s turned out to be one of the most popular in the capital city.

A lot of people will be interested in visiting La Piscine, which despite the ambiguous name, is in fact a museum of art and industry. The name comes from its former use as an indoor swimming pool, which closed in 1985 before being remodelled and opened as a museum some fifteen years later. However, despite its fairly recent opening, most of the work comes from the 1800s. In 1835, a collection of local fabrics was collected, and before long, they were all stored in a place called the National High School of Arts and Textile Industry. This museum closed through World War II and having never reopened, it was decided to store all the works in La Piscine.

Out of all the museums discussed so far, the final one is of much smaller size. Musée Rodin holds work from French sculpture Auguste Rodin, with the building being his residence in the early 1900s. He decided to donate the building to the French government on the condition they reopen it as a museum of his sculptures, which they duly have done. The building is surrounded by delightful gardens, which actually store quite a lot of his works, and with the entrance fee being quite small, tourists should definitely try and make a visit.

Paris contains at least forty main museums, most of which are of the highest quality and contain fascinating artefacts. This page has covered four of the popular ones, although if a tourist was struggling for time, The Louvre and Musée d'Orsay are the two that receive the highest recommendations.