Single Museum Ticket Prices

I have been browsing numerous tripadvisor forums about the Paris Museum Passes and am trying valiantly to do my homework be checking prices before deciding what to do. It is much easier said than done! Does anyone know a site that might give the individual prices of the main attractions? The museum passes may not be such a great deal for us because our four day/five night stay overlaps with the first Sunday of the month in October. We arrive Thursday evening and leave the following Tuesday.

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This is a good site to start from:

http://www.parisinfo.com/museum_monuments/

It%26#39;s the official tourist bureau site. If you click on the search button allowing for %26#39;any%26#39; museums to come up you get a nice long list to look at. Click on each museum to get a fair bit of info and often (not always) the price or, even better, the address of the museum%26#39;s own website.

You%26#39;ve also got to factor into your calculations that the City of Paris museums are free anyway; the private museums wont take the pass; and many museums will close on either Monday or Tuesday. The costings exercise gets complicated!!

General rule of thumb is that it takes 2 or 3 museums per day to break even on cost.

Here%26#39;s a few prices (all in euros) from my notes, with NO guarantee I%26#39;ve copied it all down correctly:

Louvre 8

Middle Ages 5.5

D%26#39;Orsay 7.5

Marmottan 6.5

Mode %26amp; Textile 5.3

Arc de Triomphe 7

Conciergerie 6.1

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If you really want to do your %26#39;due dilligence%26#39; then you will pretty much have to make up your %26#39;..short list..%26#39; of museums, monuments, attractions that are high on your priorities list and check their individual web sites for more detailed information. As an example, you%26#39;ve already mentioned FREE FIRST SUNDAY, which does indeed get you into museums which participate for free...but it%26#39;s been my experience that for the major museums (Louvre, d%26#39;Orsay, etc) this is the one day of the month that you don%26#39;t want to get within a country mile of these places. Under most circumstances, they%26#39;re merely %26#39;..busy..%26#39; but on Free First Sundays, they%26#39;re usually %26#39;..mobbed..%26#39; with lines extending all the way to the Spanish frontier.

But both the Louvre and d%26#39;Orsay have %26#39;..late opening..%26#39; days (Wed %26amp; Fri--Louvrew; Thurs--d%26#39;Orsay) when the museums remain open until 9:45 PM and there are reduced entry fees for late afternoon and evening entry. On these later opening days, you can take advantage of lower entry fees at the later hours and usually much shorter ticket lines and less crowded galeries.

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You might try visiting your library or a book store that has guide books. Most guide books list admission prices of museums. With limited time you should seriosly consider a museum pass, or going on a day that is not free to avoid the larger crowds.

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Thank you for the advice (especially CKandK). I felt intimidated about writing that first post, despite knowing about the search facility and using it. Some of the advisors have been a little sarcastic about repetitive question and not doing homework. I have not travelled to Europe before and had never heard of tripadvisor or other travel advice forums until very recently.

As we are travelling independently we are doing our best to find out as much as possible before we leave and reading the forum posts has been fantastic.

It is surprising how difficult it has been to find out quite simple information from the official websites for some of these places. And some of the tripadvisor links to information on the top attractions for Paris have been %26#39;dead links%26#39;.

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Hey Tara,

Remember, the value to the Museum Pass is not in the money you will save, but the time you will save by not having to wait in line. It is not unusual to wait in line for more than an hour at the Musee d%26#39;Orsay or some of the other attractions.

Buy the Museum Pass!