The Paris museum pass: Which museums to visit?
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Paris offers the creme-de-la-creme when it comes to museums but it can be quite daunting to decide which ones to see.
It’s even daunting for Parisians. I’ve lived here for years now and I still don’t know where to go.
But the city offers what it calls “The Museum Pass” where you buy a ticket that gives you access to 60 museums - and you can often skip the queue.
Full disclosure: I got my passes for free from Parisinfo.com, but they cost 66 euros.
Anyway, I decided to spent four days in a row visiting some of the museums and this episode is my recap of it all.
You'll hear that I talk a lot about the Instagram videos I did about the museums, and I've archived them on my Instagram home page. Click here to see them (They're at the top, labelled Museums 1, 2, 3, and 4).
My guest Lina, who is incidentally also my wife, is frequently mentioned in the stories and you can find her on Instagram here @parisianpostcards.
Now, there is a full recap of the museums plus some pictures and practical information on the official site here, but below is the list of the museums we visited. They're listed in the order that we visited them, and in the order that they're mentioned in the episode.
Day 1:
La Conciergerie
Sainte Chapelle
The Crypte Archéologique
Bonus: Hotel de Ville
Day 2:
Nissim de Camondo
The Orangerie
The Louvre
Day 3:
Musee Gustave Moreau
Rodin Museum
Napoleon’s Tomb
Musee d’Orsay
Day 4:
Musee de Cluny
Delacroix Museum
Pantheon
That's it! Here's more info on how to buy the Paris Museum Pass.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, it's Monday in Paris. You're listening to the Earful Tower presented by French Today, French audiobooks. I'll be talking about them at the end of the episode. But first, let me give you a little hint of what's coming up this week. I'm going to be talking about museums, Paris museums. And instead of doing a little bit of an intro in here by myself, I can introduce you to this week's guest because she's sitting right in front of me. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome, lovely Lena. |
| 0:23.7 | Thank you, lovely Oliver. |
| 0:25.2 | Oh, that's a new one. |
| 0:26.9 | So people who are listening to this show for the first time or who have been living under a rock, |
| 0:31.6 | lovely Lena is my wife. |
| 0:33.5 | Yes, legally. |
| 0:35.9 | She's the co-star of the honeymoon season. |
| 0:39.4 | So the people who've been listening for a while will recognize your voice. |
| 0:42.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.1 | Although it's seldom that you've been in the studio. |
| 0:45.3 | It's true. |
| 0:46.0 | It's true. |
| 0:46.3 | How's it feels? |
| 0:47.1 | It's great. |
| 0:47.9 | I saw you did an Instagram story coming all the way up the stairs and everything. |
| 0:51.2 | I know. |
| 0:51.6 | You call me a loser. |
| 0:52.6 | Do you stand by that? What? |
| 0:54.5 | What did I call you? |
| 0:55.2 | Did I say that in the story? |
| 0:56.7 | I muted it. |
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