I'm planning my second trip to Paris and there are only about four museums that I'm interested in seeing, for the first time or the second.

Is it worth buying the Museum Monument Pass if I'm not going to do more than that?

Hi R,

You have to price the individual museums and the Pass.

most museums discounted on Sundays - some like Louvre discounted after 3pm or so or free on first Sun of month.

City of Paris museums are free.

which four are you going to?

I like the pass for the reason you can come and go - rather than exhausting yourself at the sprawling Louvre - i guess the world's largest museum - come and go.

I like them because you don't have to stand in line. There are also non-musuems sights that are covered. You can get one for a less for a shorter time as well. There's a website where you can check all this out--I forgot what it is exactly, but am sure you can get it if you goggle it.

If they are museums with long lines, I would get it just to avoid those. I was very smug and happy when I avoided all the lines at Versailles.

It mostly depends on which museums are in your plans. Most don't have any lines and many have pretty reasonable entrance fees. But a few do have long lines and/or cost more.

So w/o knowing which places you are visiting it is hard to give advice.

Let there be no doubt - get the pass. We were in Paris last Christmas and saved hours of time because of our glorious pass! The lines were very long - and this was winter,so it was cold. Because of the pass, we walked right in. We saved 2 hours at L'Orangerie alone. Also, you might find once you're there that there are other museums you'd like to see. So, the combination of the time savings and the entry fee savings is worth it.

&quot;<i>The lines were very long </i>&quot; only applies to a few places. There are 2 or 3 museums where the lines can be VERY long - but there are many more that have no lines at all.

So again, whether the Pass saves &quot;queue time&quot; depends on which sites one visits.

The only places with really long lines are Musee d'Orsay and Musee de l'Orangerie - and you can purchase advance passes at FNAC for those.

I went to Musee de l'Orangerie on April 20 around 4 or 5pm and there were 0 people waiting in line. It's a rather small museum and doesn't take a long time to work through.

Don't forget... A museum pass also gets you free access to clean toilets in many areas. As posted before, we will always remember the 'piss'n'go', 'Piccasso' museum in the 4th. Neither of us like his work, but it was there.

Picasso Museum i believe, like all city-run museums is free? or perhaps i'm mistaken but good point about hopping into places like Orsay Museum for better than average and free toilets.

Tariffs of entry:
Full fare: 7,70 &euro;
Reduced tariff (from 18 to 25 years included): 5,70 &euro;
On presentation of a valid document in proof:
Less than 18 years: free
Teachers in activity: free
Unemployeds, Rmistes: free
Press: free
Free all first Sundays of each month

Reservations and sale: www.rmn.fr and also www.parismuseumpass.fr
to the 0.892.684 694 (0,34 &euro; the minute), at the FNAC and on www.fnac.com, www.ticketnet.fr, www.digitick.com

My friend and I didn't get the pass when we were in Paris last November. We only went to three museums, the Louvre, d'Orsay, and l'Orangerie. The longest line was the d'Orsay and we were in line about 15 minutes I think.

The entrance fees weren't all that much, but at the same time, as I was waiting in line, I was thinking to myself that if I was visiting in the high season I would for sure get the pass, for two reasons..I hate heat and I just would not want to be standing out in the sun in line for an hour or more, AND I would not like to waste precious visiting time by just waiting in line. So, for those two reasons alone, for me, at the right time of year the pass would be more than worth it, even if it ended up costing more than the actual entrance fees to the site I wanted to visit.

Is it best to get the museum pass online or wait until I get to Paris?

Why would you want to buy it online? There is no point to that, buy it in Paris.

The Picasso Museum isn't free and isn't a city museum, it's a national one.

In high season the pass is definitely worth it. My husband and I were in Paris 10 days ago scouting a trip we will be brining students on and the pass saved us time and money. Lines were outrageous at the Louvre, Orsay and Versailles. We were able to skip them and head straight in to enjoy the sites. I think purchasing it online is a great idea if you have the time for it to be delivered. We bought ours at St. Chapelle where the line was much shorter.

This is not at all an economical answer, but my Museum Pass became worth its weight in gold to me the day it got me into the Louvre without having to wait in the supposed 4 hour line that practically encircled the building. Instead, I scooted right over to the Museum Pass entrance and was inside ten minutes later.

can anyone tell me if you can go into one museum more than once with a museum pass as thinking of getting a 6 day on and thought if I wanted to back to a museum that this would be the best way to go. Thanks for the help

Yes, you can enter and re-enter sites w/ the museum pass