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  "editorialMarkdown": "[View next **Cusuaka Cafés — Boulogne Nord**](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/cusuaka-boulogne-nord>)\n\n## Musée des Arts et Métiers\n\nScientific instruments, communication, energy and transport collections, ending in the former church of Saint-Martin-des-Champs.\n\n[Plan this experience](<https://www.arts-et-metiers.net/musee/tarifs>)\n\n[Explore the story](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/musee-arts-et-metiers#experience-story>)\n\nCost **Admission options**\n\nTime to allow **Allow 2–3 hours**\n\nPlace **Arts et Métiers / north Marais, Paris**\n\n01 / The experience\n\n### Machines, measurements and flight inside an old priory.\n\nAn early aircraft suspended inside a former church sets the scale of a visit to the Musée des Arts et Métiers. The height of Saint-Martin-des-Champs gives machines an unexpected architectural setting, with display structures and historic objects occupying a building originally made for a very different purpose. It is one part of a much larger collection about how things are measured, made, powered and moved.\n\n#### Seven collections and scientific instruments\n\nThe museum organises its permanent displays into seven fields: scientific instruments, materials, construction, communication, energy, mechanics and transport. Those headings make it possible to follow an interest through the rooms rather than treat every case as equally essential. A visitor drawn to photography and sound can spend more time with communication, while engines, mechanical models and transport offer another route through the history of technology.\n\nScientific instruments show how an idea depends on a physical object precise enough to investigate it. Foucault’s pendulum is among the collection’s best-known examples, alongside equipment associated with Lavoisier’s laboratory. Mechanical objects range from Vaucanson’s turning lathe to an automaton that plays the dulcimer. These pieces bring different kinds of skill into view: accurate measurement, controlled movement and the ambition to make a machine repeat a complex action.\n\n#### Models, communication and the former church\n\nModels are an important part of the experience as well as full-size objects. Locomotive, steam-power and industrial examples can explain a system at a scale where its parts are easier to grasp. The communication collections add objects concerned with recording and transmitting information, linking the development of printing, photography, sound and electricity to changes in ordinary life. The pleasure is often in recognising a familiar function inside an unfamiliar-looking machine.\n\nThe former church brings the visit back to large objects and the relationship between technology and space. Its tall windows, old masonry and later exhibition structures make the setting worth seeing alongside the transport displays. A substantial visit can occupy several hours indoors without depending on a temporary exhibition or a timed demonstration. Families have plenty of visual material to follow, while the labels and technical detail give adults reasons to stay with a particular collection.\n\n![Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris](<https://above.guide/paris/_guide/images/tennis/roland-garros-tennis/generated-rainy-day-v1/musee-arts-et-metiers-church-aircraft-and-display-platform-v1.webp>)\n\nCulture & landmarks **Musée des Arts et Métiers** Paris\n\nIn pictures\n\n### The full gallery.\n\n02 / The essentials\n\n### Musée des Arts et Métiers: visit essentials\n\n1. 01\n\n   Arts et Métiers / north Marais\n2. 02\n\n   Allow 2–3 hours\n3. 03\n\n   Tuesday–Sunday 10:00–18:00; Friday until 21:00. Closed Monday, 1 January, 1 May and 25 December. Ticket desks close 45 minutes before the museum; upper floors close 30 minutes before.\n\n04 / Before you go\n\n### Plan your visit\n\nScientific instruments, communication, energy and transport collections, ending in the former church of Saint-Martin-des-Champs.\n\n#### Admission\n\nCurrent permanent-collection admission €12, reduced €9; eligible under-18s and EU nationals aged 18–25 have free admission with proof. Online reservations add €1 per booking. Prices and special experiences may change.\n\n[Check admission](<https://www.arts-et-metiers.net/musee/horaires-et-acces>)\n\n#### Choose your visit\n\nTuesday–Sunday 10:00–18:00; Friday until 21:00. Closed Monday, 1 January, 1 May and 25 December. Ticket desks close 45 minutes before the museum; upper floors close 30 minutes before.\n\nConfirm opening and service times for your visit.\n\n#### Arrival & access\n\nVisitor entrance on rue Réaumur. Arts et Métiers (Métro 3/11) and Réaumur–Sébastopol (Métro 3/4) serve the area. The exterior church apse is a landmark, not an alternative visitor entrance.\n\n60 rue Réaumur, 75003 Paris\n\nLevel entry is available directly from rue Réaumur. Wheelchairs and folding seats can be borrowed with ID, subject to availability; contact the accessibility team about the route through the church platforms. Large bags and rolling suitcases of any size are not admitted.\n\n[Get directions](<https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=48.865711,2.355422>)\n\n#### Plan admission\n\nChoose permanent-collection admission through the museum. The immersive Lady Liberté experience costs extra and its programme for your date is separate. First-Sunday free permanent-collection tickets are issued at reception. Demonstrations depend on the day’s programme.\n\n[Museum admission options](<https://www.arts-et-metiers.net/musee/tarifs>)\n\n05 / Where it is\n\n### Find it\nand what’s nearby.\n\nExplore around Musée des Arts et Métiers\n\n The map will load when you reach it.\n\nContinue exploring\n\n### More of Paris, around your visit.\n\n#### Continue your Paris day\n\n- [Galerie Vivienne](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/galerie-vivienne>)\n- [Passage des Panoramas](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/passage-des-panoramas>)\n- [Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/musee-carnavalet>)\n- [All Paris sights and neighbourhoods](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do>)\n- [Paris cafés, restaurants and food stops](<https://above.guide/paris/food-and-drink>)\n\n#### Plan your Paris visit\n\n- [Paris city guide](<https://above.guide/paris>)\n- [Choose a Paris city day](<https://above.guide/paris/city-days>)\n- [Find a Paris hotel](<https://above.guide/paris/where-to-stay>)\n- [Plan Métro and walking journeys](<https://above.guide/paris/getting-there>)\n- [Build your saved itinerary](<https://above.guide/paris/my-itinerary>)\n\n06 / Good to know\n\n### Musée des Arts et Métiers: frequently asked questions\n\n01 Is Friday evening at Musée des Arts et Métiers free?\n\nNo. The current Friday evening permanent-collection price is the normal €12 adult rate, or €9 for eligible reduced admission. Existing free-admission categories still apply.\n\n02 Does a Musée des Arts et Métiers ticket include Lady Liberté?\n\nOrdinary permanent-collection admission does not include the immersive Lady Liberté experience. Its separate charge and programme must be selected with the museum.\n\n03 Can I bring a rolling suitcase into Musée des Arts et Métiers?\n\nNo. The museum excludes rolling suitcases of every size and large bags. The limited cloakroom allowance for small bags is not permission to bring a wheeled case.\n\nContinue exploring\n\n### Make Paris\nyour own.\n\n[Visit the official site](<https://www.arts-et-metiers.net/musee/horaires-et-acces>)[← All things to do](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do>)\n\nOpening hours, prices and access change. Confirm details on the official site before visiting."
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