Paris - know a good small esoteric museum?
 

I'm going on a 10-day trip to Paris at the end of the summer. I've been many times before, but not for 5 years. I'm a huge museum fan and have worked my way through the biggies and a lot of the smaller museums (and plan on repeating a lot of them this time around.)

Do you have a favorite small esoteric museum that I should check out?

A few on my list (to give you an idea of what I'm looking for):

Chasse et de la Nature
Histoire de la Medecine
Fragonard

I'm new to this forum, so I'm looking forward to a lively and informative exchange of ideas here!

Thanks in advance,
Mark

2 museums off the beaten track we visited and enjoyed very
much last trip were:

Musee Delacroix on Place Furstemburg
Musee Clemenceau at 8 rue Benjamin Franklin

Both museums are in the apartments where the men lived
and worked. In the case of the latter, it is left exactly
as it was the day he died in 1929.

http://musee-clemenceau.fr/en/index.html

http://www.musee-delacroix.fr

Thanks for these suggestions! I've been to both of these museums and recommend them as well. I may just have to re-visit the Delacroix since your mention of it has piqued my interest again.

Mark

My husband and I enjoyed the museum at the Pasteur Institut http://www.pasteur.fr/ip/easysite/pa.../musee-pasteur

It is quite small but enjoyable. A small lab that summarizes Pasteur's major scientific contributions, the apartment where he lived the last 7 years of his life and his tomb. Check the website for opening hours as I recall they are limited. Within walking distance of the Pasteur Metro stop.

Pasteur Institut? Sounds worthy of visit to me! Thanks for the insight (and the link.)

Mark

You've probably been to the Marmottan in the 16th -- it's one of my favorites, anywhere.

Don

Nissim de Camondo overlooking Parc Monceau

http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/engl...e-camondo-742/

There are so many, you can google to find them.
As you like LA chasse de Nature, you must visit my
favorite shop Deyrolle

Deyrolle looks intriguing! Reminds me of The Evolution Store here in NYC...I'll definitely be checking it out.

Thanks!

Here's three more I thought of:

George Sand museum: http://www.placesinfrance.com/musee_...omantique.html

Musee de Montmartre: http://www.placesinfrance.com/musee_...re_museum.html

Musee de Cernuschi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_Cernuschi

Le Musée de la Préfecture de Police:

http://www.prefecturedepolice.interi...ture-de-police

The Musée des Arts Forains is great, but you have to sign up for a reservation.

The Musee Grevin gives the impression of being a tourist trap, but it is very creatively put together.

The Curie Museum
http://www.curie.fr/en/Curie-museum

The last time I went, the only other people there was a small group of French science teachers.

Maison de Victor Hugo in Place des Voges is interesting both from an insight into his life and a look at what the houses in the Place looked like in the 1800s.

Has anyone been to the exhibiton about Madame Gres at the Musee Bourdelle? Any tips on museums about fashion?

There used to be a fascinating Musee des Arts et Traditions Populaires near the Bois de Boulogne, but I believe the collection has been transferred somewhere else now?

For industrial-age technology, try Les Egouts de Paris, the Paris sewer museum. Entrance to the sewer (no, you can't just follow your nose) is adjacent to Pont de l'Alma, across from 93 quai d'Orsay in the 7th. It's a Paris municipal museum but www.Paris.fr isn't much help. Oddly, the display and the sewer are closed Thursday and Friday while open the other five days of the week. Sometimes sewer workers provide a guided tour but I couldn't find a schedule and you can navigate by yourself.
For a nice appreciation and photos, try this blog:
http://museumchick.com/2010/05/sewer...ts-museum.html

Thanks to everyone for these great recommendations!

Let us know which ones you you chose or anything else you discover.