PWAbbott

According to the Rick Steves website, "Starting April 4, 2009, admission to France's national museums and monuments is free for anyone under 25 years old." Does anyone have any idea as to where I could obtain a list of which museums and monuments that would include? That would really help us in budget planning and knowing whether we still need to purchase museum passes for 10 students. I'm assuming everything on the museum pass list is not a national museum or monument?

kerouac

Why would you assume that when you can consult the museum pass website?

http://www.parismuseumpass.com/en/faq.php

kerouac

Covered by the museum pass in Paris:

Aquarium Tropical de la Porte Dorée
Arc de Triomphe
Musée de l’Armée - Tombeau de Napoléon 1er
Centre Pompidou - Musée national d’art moderne
Musée national des Arts asiatiques - Guimet
Musée des Arts décoratifs
Musée de la Mode et du Textile
Musée de la Publicité
Musée Nissim de Camondo
Musée des Arts et Métiers
Musée de l’Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Musée du quai Branly
Chapelle expiatoire
La Cinémathèque française - Musée du Cinéma
Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie - La Villette
Conciergerie
Musée national Eugène Delacroix
Musée des Égouts de Paris
Musée d’Ennery*
Musée Galliera - Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris
Musée Hébert*
Musée Jean-Jacques Henner*
Musée de l’Institut du Monde arabe
Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme
Musée du Louvre
Musée national de la Marine
Musée de la Monnaie
Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine - Musée des Monuments français
Musée Gustave Moreau
Musée national du Moyen Âge - Musée de Cluny
Cité de la Musique - Musée de la Musique
Crypte archéologique du Parvis de Notre-Dame
Tours de Notre-Dame
Musée national de l’Orangerie
Musée de l’Ordre de la Libération
Musée d’Orsay
Panthéon
Musée national Picasso
Musée des Plans-reliefs
Musée de la Poste
Musée Rodin
Sainte-Chapelle

adrienne

I don't see anything on the Rick Steves site about the museums being free to under 25s. Do you have the link on that site? I believe the national museums are free to 18 and under. I just checked a couple of the museums and see nothing about 25 year olds.

The Louvre is free to under 26s on Friday evenings.

adrienne

The Paris city museums are free.

Zadkine
Deportation Memorial
Balzac's House
Cognacq-Jay
Romantic Life
Carnavalet
Victor Hugo's House
Palace of Justice
Modern Art
Petit Palais

adrienne

In looking further I see the Orsay is free for 18 to 25 YOs from EU countries. Non EU students get a reduction from 8 Euro to 5.5 Euro.

You need to decide what museums you want to see and if it's worth while to get a 2 (32Euro) or 4 day pass (48 Euro) for 10 students.

How old are your students?

Christina

I'm not sure the ones covered are coincident with national museums and monuments. Maybe it is, I might be wrong on that. I don't know how France is going to get by financially, but I know they hope to make it up in gift shop sales.

Anyway, this is their website (the national museums/monuments of France)
http://www.rmn.fr/

You can go into the Paris section and see what is listed, but it is most of the main ones you'll want to see. I thought it was actually under 26, not under 25, that's the usual age they use for reduced fares or entry. Rick Steves often gets that kind of thing wrong.

Okay, I found the notice on the Ministre of Culture's website and it is under age 26. There is a video, also.
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/

If you go into that further, it has links you can click and it will give you a list of ones included. In Paris:

Musées nationaux:
Musée Jean-Jacques Henner (réouverture le 24/09/09) 43 avenue de Villiers - 75017 Paris
Musée du Louvre 34 Quai du Louvre - 75001 Paris
Musée Eugène Delacroix 6 rue de Fürstenberg - 75006 Paris
Musée Gustave Moreau 4 rue La Rochefoucauld - 75009 Paris
Musée Rodin, 77 rue de Varenne - 75007 Paris
Musée et domaine du château de Versailles, Château de Versailles - 78000 Versailles
Musée d'Orsay 1 rue de Bellechasse - 75007 Paris
Musée des Arts asiatiques - Guimet 19 avenue d’Iéna 75016
Musée du Quai Branly (double tutelle) 37 Quai Branly - 75007
Etablissement Public de la Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine - Musée des Monuments Français Palais de Chaillot - 1 Place du Trocadéro et du 11 novembre -75116 Paris
Centre National de l'Histoire de l'Immigration (double tutelle) 293 avenue Daumesnil - 75012 Paris
Musée du Château de Fontainebleau 77300 Fontainebleau
Musée du Moyen-Age - Thermes et Hôtel de Cluny 6 place Paul Painlevé - 75005 Paris
Musée d'Ennery (Fermé) 59 avenue Foch - 75116 Paris
Musée Hébert (Fermé) 85 rue du Cherche-Midi - 75006 Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie Jardin des Tuileries - 75001 Paris
Musée Picasso Hôtel Salé 5 rue de Thorigny - 75003 Paris
Musée d'Archéologie Nationale Place du Château - 78103 Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Musée de la Renaissance Château d'Ecouen - 95440 Ecouen
Musées des Châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau Av du Château - 92500 Rueil-Malmaison
Musées de Port-Royal des Champs Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - 78114 Magny-les-Hameaux
Musée de Céramique Place de la Manufacture - 92310 Sèvres
Musée national d’art moderne du centre Georges Pompidou Rue Beaubourg - 75191 Paris cedex 04
Musées des Arts Décoratifs 107 rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris
Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme 71, rue du Temple - 75003 Paris
Musée de la Musique 221, avenue Jean-Jaurès – 75019 Paris
Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 57 Rue Cuvier - 75005 Paris
Musée des Arts et Métiers 60 rue Réaumur - 75003 Paris
Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace Aéroport du Bourget - 93350 Le Bourget
Musée de la Marine de Paris 17 Place du Trocadéro et 11 novembre - 75016 Paris
Musée de l'Armée 129 Rue de Grenelle - 75007 Paris
Musée du service de santé des armées du Val de Grâce 1 Place Alphonse
Musée de la Monnaie et Médailles 11 Quai de Conti - 75006 Paris
Musée de la Poste 34 Bd de Vaugirard - 75015 Paris
Musée National du Sport 93 avenue de France - 75013 Paris
Musée de l'Assistance publique
Hôpitaux de Paris 47 rue Tournelle - 75005 Paris
Musée Fragonard 7 avenue du Général de Gaulle - 94700 Maisons Alfort
Musée de la Légion d'Honneur et des Ordres de Chevalerie 2 Rue de la Légion d'Honneur - 75007 Paris

Monuments nationaux

Arc de triomphe
Chapelle expiatoire
Conciergerie
Domaine national du Palais-Royal
Hôtel de Béthune-Sully
Musée des Plans-Reliefs
Panthéon
Sainte-Chapelle
Tours de la cathédrale Notre -Dame
Château de Champs-sur-Marne
Château de Jossigny
Château de Maisons
Villa Savoye à Poissy
Château de Rambouillet
Laiterie de la Reine et chaumière
des coquillages à Rambouillet
Domaine national de Saint-Cloud
Maison des Jardies à Sèvres
Basilique cathédrale de Saint-Denis
Château de Vincennes


That's sure a lot, this should be interesting.

Palenque

They are only free for EU youths i believe i read. Not Americans. Not sure but i believe i read that.

adrienne

Palenque - you are correct. The link Christina gives states that the museums are free for "European young people of less than 26 years old."

That is the same info I saw on the Orsay Museum site which I stated above.

I believe that under 18 year olds can get in free.

Palenque

The same has been true of senior rates at many museums in Europe - the U.S. is not a signee of some treaty covering these so Americans were on the list of countries often posted where senior rates were not granted.

Palenque

And the CIEE International Student Identity Card is also not honored IME at French museums - and in many other countries.

PWAbbott

Thanks for all the replies. I heard somewhere else after I posted this that the under 26 only applies to EU students (unfortunately!). Can anyone else verify this? Christina, your link goes to a site that seems to indicate that this is only for European youth.

Palenque

PW - i cannot give you an exact link

but i read about this free for youths 25 and under i believe and this was in a newsletter from the French Embassy in Wash DC and it definitely did said exactly that - only EU youths (or perhaps European)

StCirq

And I was just looking at the Versailles and other museum sites last night, and they said "under 26, EU citizens."

laurie_ann

I think it is pretty clear that it applies only to EU "youths". The sentence from the Ministry of Culture website is "Le 1er avril, Christine Albanel présente la nouvelle mesure qui assure l'accès gratuit aux musées et monuments nationaux pour les jeunes de la communauté européennes âgés de moins de 26 ans." and the quotation from the Minster of Culture herself on making the public announcement of the new policy is "de cette mesure qui permettra à tous les jeunes de la Communauté européenne d’accéder gratuitement à notre patrimoine culturel et artistique." So good for your group if you are European. Not so good if you are not.

Christina

yes, that's what it says, it is only for youths of the European Community. I remember reading that a year or so ago when Sarkozy first announced it, at least they talked about that, so I was surprised that it would apply to everyone. Although I guess it does in London, doesn't it? I wonder if Rick Steves notes that.

There were already some where they tried this out in 2008, but it wasn't all of them. I think there were about 8 in Paris, can't recall, and it was free to them on certain nights or something. That was the test case for doing it for all of them.

Alec

Under EU law, you cannot discriminate against other EU citizens by just offering free admission to French youths only. So the choice is they either open it to all youths of any nationality or restrict it to EU youths. I suppose since Sarkozy's original intention was to give French young people fee access to great national treasures, restricting it to EU citizens still meets the objective without costing too much in lost revenue.