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Musée du Luxembourg

In Paris 6e stands Musée du Luxembourg, a museum. There are 1,490 other places to visit inside 5 km. Look also at Musée du Louvre, 1.4 km away.

Photo: Musée du Luxembourg, LPLT (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Where

In Paris 6e

inside the commune

How well known

Top 1%

#191 of 37,318 French places we list

Warmest months

Apr–Oct

highs of 18–27°C

In brief

Museum in Paris 6e

One of the best-known places to visit in France

#191 of the 37,318 museums, châteaux, gardens and other attractions we list in France, by how widely it is covered (26 Wikipedia and sister-site articles). About ↓

In Paris 6e

Musée du Luxembourg is in the commune of Paris 6e, with 1,490 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and Météo-France 1991–2020 normals.

When to go

Warm months and wet ones

Expect highs of 18–27°C in Paris 6e from April to October.

Jan8° / 3°51 mm

Feb10° / 4°45 mm

Mar14° / 6°46 mm

Apr18° / 8°49 mm

May21° / 11°75 mm

Jun24° / 14°55 mm

Jul27° / 16°57 mm

Aug27° / 16°59 mm

Sep23° / 13°49 mm

Oct18° / 10°57 mm

Nov12° / 6°58 mm

Dec9° / 4°67 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Paris 6e, and rain in a month. Météo-France 1991–2020 normals from the Luxembourg station, 700 m away. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Paris 6e’s full climate →

About

Musée du Luxembourg

Readers can find it on Wikipedia in 26 languages.

Musée du Luxembourg on Wikipedia ↗

Type: Museum
Covered in: 26 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
Commune: Paris 6e, Paris
Official site: museeduluxembourg.fr

Facts: Wikidata (CC0), OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors) and the Mérimée database (Licence Ouverte 2.0).

Plan your visit

Practical information

HoursEvery day 10:00–19:00 · Mon, Fri 10:00–21:30 · Dec 24 10:00–18:00 · Dec 31 10:00–18:00 · Jan 01 10:00–18:00 · Dec 25 closed

Entrance fees

EntryA fee is charged

Hours and entry: OpenStreetMap contributors. They change through the year: check its site before you go.

The map

Locating Musée du Luxembourg

Orange: Musée du Luxembourg.

Towns near it

Which town is nearest

The 8 towns are led in size by Paris 14e, with 136,455 people. Every one of these towns counts it as a place to visit.

1 · It’s in this commune

Paris 6e

40,389 people

2 · 1.3 km southeast of it

Paris 5e

55,252 people

3 · 1.7 km north of it

Paris 1er

15,114 people

4 · 1.7 km northwest of it

Paris 7e

48,015 people

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Musée du Luxembourg is	People
Paris 6e	It’s in this commune	40,389
Paris 5e	1.3 km southeast of it	55,252
Paris 1er	1.7 km north of it	15,114
Paris 7e	1.7 km northwest of it	48,015
Paris 4e	2 km east of it	27,332
Paris 14e	2.2 km south of it	136,455
Paris 2e	2.3 km northeast of it	19,847
Paris 3e	2.5 km northeast of it	32,179

Make a day of it

Other places close by

Around it, within 15 km, lie 2,189 more, including 5 attractions, 2 museums and a château.

1MuseumMuseumMusée du Louvre1.4 km north, in Paris 1er 2

AttractionTour Eiffel3.1 km west, in Paris 7e 3

AttractionCathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris1.3 km east, in Paris 4e 4

MuseumMusée d'Orsay1.4 km northwest, in Paris 7e 5AttractionAttractionPendule de Foucault900 m east, in Paris 5e 6

AttractionAvenue des Champs-Élysées3.2 km northwest, in Paris 8e 7

ChâteauPalais du Luxembourg300 m east, in Paris 6e 8

AttractionPanthéon900 m east, in Paris 5e

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Musée du Luxembourg: common questions

Where is Musée du Luxembourg?

Musée du Luxembourg is in Paris 6e, in Paris (Île-de-France).

What is Musée du Luxembourg?

Museum in Paris, France.

How well known is Musée du Luxembourg?

Musée du Luxembourg has 26 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages: #191 of the 37,318 French places we list.

When is the best time to visit Musée du Luxembourg?

April to October are the warmest months in Paris 6e, with afternoon highs of 18–27°C (Météo-France 1991–2020 normals).

What else is there to see near Musée du Luxembourg?

Within 15 km: Musée du Louvre (1.4 km), Tour Eiffel (3.1 km), Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris (1.3 km) and Musée d'Orsay (1.4 km).

Sources: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), Wikidata (CC0: what it is, its articles, how widely it is covered), the Culture ministry’s Mérimée database (Licence Ouverte 2.0), IGN commune boundaries, Météo-France 1991–2020 normals (Licence Ouverte 2.0).

Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (7)

Musée du Luxembourg: LPLT, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Tour Eiffel: Benh LIEU SONG, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris: P e z i, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Musée d'Orsay: Cheng-en Cheng from Taichung City, Taiwan, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Avenue des Champs-Élysées: SoWhat, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Palais du Luxembourg: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Panthéon: Camille Gévaudan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.