Underground & cool · Free history museum · €
Musée Carnavalet — Histoire de Paris
The city's oldest museum, reopened in 2021, runs the whole arc of Paris across two Marais mansions. The pulls are specific: Proust's cork-lined bedroom, the model guillotine, Fouquet's Art Nouveau jewellery boutique transplanted intact, and a wall of old painted shop signs.
Enter from the orangery side to take the chronology in order; the Revolution rooms upstairs are where the crowds thin.
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