Are these Parisian Museums really free?
 

The reason I ask is that I have found contradictory information regarding
these museums,
Musee Galliera ( fashion)
Maison Balzac
Leclerc Memorial and Jan Moulin(resistence)
Musee d'Art Moderne de la VIlle de Paris
Musee Carnavalet
Musee Cognacq-jay
Victor Hugo House....and others
..It seems difficult to believe that to-day they charge no entrance fees.
Has anyone visited any of them lately?
Thank you.
free to-

www.paris.fr has info on many museums. The first on your list is 8 Euro entry fee. I'm sure you can find many of the others there as well to check pricing.

Virtually all museums will charge for special exhibitions, even if their main collections are normally free.

Hi G,

The Carnavalet is free. Closed Monday.

All of the permant collections of those museums are free. They were not free a few years ago but the Mayor of Paris , Bertrand Delanoe decided do away with the entry fee for all museums (14 in all) belonging to the city of Paris. Temporary exhibits still require an entry fee. The catacombs belong to the city of Paris but there is still an entry fee.

The national museums of France that happen to be in Paris, such as the Louvre or the d'Orsay, still charge.

MorganB's info is accurate.

Many museums are free or half-price on Sundays. Louvre free, i believe, on first Sunday of month, and about half-price daily after 3pm and open to about 9pm.

The Galliera isn't free because I was just there. I don't know if there is some fine print about being free for permanent collections but not special exhibits, but I don't think that museum is open except during special exhibits and of course, you'd want to see them. In fact, their web site has a header saying for textile conservation reasons, they don't present permanent collections, only through special exhibits.

I don't remember a sign saying you can see some small section free, but I wouldn't have done that, anyway, as the special exhibitions were wonderful (history of clothing in China one was one them).