Best Unusual Museums You Need to Check Out While in Paris, France

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Paris, France. Photo by Anthony DELANOIX on Unsplash

Louvre Museum and Musée d’Orsay are the most famous museums in Paris, France, and must-see attractions for any visitor. However, the city also has an abundance of other museums that deserve your attention with some of them offering unique exhibitions and unusual experiences for museum enthusiasts. Continue reading to learn about those that you should definitely check out.

Musée des Arts Forains

If you like fairs, you’ll love Musée des Arts Forains. The museum is dedicated to fair and funfair equipment, objects, and arts. It consists of four rooms, each dedicated to a different theme including Venetian carnival and Belle Epoque funfairs. Visitors are required to make a reservation and take a guided tour in order to fully experience the museum’s uniqueness.

Musée du Parfum

Musée du Parfum is dedicated to the history of perfumes and perfume making. Here you’ll learn more about the traditional and modern manufacturing process behind perfumes, browse through antique perfume bottles and containers, and witness a perfume organ. 

Catacombs of Paris

The Catacombs of Paris are definitely not for the faint-hearted. Situated 65 feet underground, they consist of tunnels and galleries that span one mile and contain the remains of six million people. The Catacombs of Paris were originally built in the 18th century to deal with the lack of capacity at cemeteries and have been open to the public since 1874.