Permanent collection

Tours

Whether alone or with your family, with your classmates or your friends, come visit the exceptional collections at the Musée de la Musique: tour on your own with a free audio-guide, (available in French and English), or take a guided tour on your own or with a group.

A special audio tour for children makes visiting the museum fun. It’s available in French and English, and was created with the support of EHA Foundation and France Musique.

A highlight of any visit is an encounter with a musician, giving visitors a unique chance to listen to and talk about music from around the world. Children can follow up their visit with a workshop.

Our lecturers are all musicians, historians, musicologists or ethno-musicologists. They adapt their tours to their audience and are committed to teaching to share their passion for music, as are all the artists performing at the Musée.

Individual Adult Rates

Individual tour
with audio-guide available (in French and English)
Full price: €8
Discount: 20% off: €6,40 / 30% off: €5,60 € / 50% off: €5

Guided tour
discovery tour, musical tour
Full price: €10
Discount: 20% off: €8 / 30% off: €7 / 50% off: €4

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Adult Group Rates

> Adult groups (cultural associations, groups of friends, works councils, tour operators, etc.)

With guide
discovery tour, musical tour:
Full price: €220* -
Discount: €154*
* Price includes museum admission.

Without guide
for groups of 10 or more people, museum admission is reduced by 20%, to €5.60 per person.
All group tours (guided or not) must be reserved in advance.

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Discover the museum

From the Renaissance to today, this tour takes you on a journey around the world, and through the history of music. A guide presents the jewels of our collections: a Stradivarius violin, the Érard piano played by Franz Liszt, Django Reinhardt’s guitar, and an extremely rare Thai piphat mon orchestra.

Guided visits are held on Saturdays and Sundays:
On Saturdays
November 13, December 11, January 8 and from January 22 to June 25.
On Sundays
January 23, 30, February 6, 20, 27, March 6
During school holidays
From February 22 to 25 and from March 1 to 4

From 2.30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Guided tours for groups are conducted from Tuesday to Friday, and Saturday mornings, from 19 October 2010 to 26 June 2011.
Some tours are available in English, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
For information and reservations, call 01 44 84 44 84

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Youth rates

Are you under 26?

• > Free tours with audio guide: no charge
• > Individual tours: no charge
• > Guided tours: €6.00
• > Wednesday cycle/annual: €155.00
• > Wednesday cycle/quarterly: €60.00

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Opening hours

Tuesday to Saturday, 12.00 PM to 6.00 PM
Sunday from 10.00 AM to 6.00 PM
Closed Monday
Ticket counters close 45 minutes prior to closing.
Closed 25 December, 1st January and 1st May .

Guides

To prepare or complete your visit, museum guides for adults or families present a number of different tours of our collections. Other works like the museum’s more specialised notebooks, or the “Contes du Musée” children’s collection explore instruments in our collection from different angles. A series of CD recordings of our collection’s instruments is also available at our on-line bookshop.

Cultural events around the permanent collections

As a cross between living music and the protection of historic collections, the museum’s vocation is to encourage communication between the public, historians, musicians and instrument makers. It is committed to providing an evolving and open process, by comparing music and fine arts, heritage and practice, and repertoire knowledge and instrument studies.

Colloquiums, forums, study days

Our forums, study days and colloquiums are an opportunity to share knowledge in a variety of fields: music history, analysis, instrumental practice and organology.
Some of these events subsequently appear in publications.

The colloquiums have a multi-disciplinary goal and feature expert instrument makers, teachers, music specialists and contemporary art historians. They feature research topics related to the museum’s collections and exhibits, or develop topics initially covered at study days.

Utopia instrumentalis : fac-similés au musée	SATURDAY 27 NOV. 10 / 10:00 AM
Franz Liszt et la France	11/03/2011 (10 AM TO 6 PM) 12/03/2011 (10:00 AM TO 12:30 AM)
Handicap visuel et exposition	FRIDAY 20 MAY 11 / 10:00 AM

The forums target a broad audience and discuss certain of our programme topics in depth through debates, conferences, audiovisual documents and musical events.

Utopies révolutionnaires : musique et avant-garde sous Lénine	Saturday 16 oct. 10 / 3:00 PM
Forum Musiques au Sénégal, entre tradition et modernité	Saturday 23 oct. 10 / 3:00 PM
Forum Harmonia mundi, l'idéal musical de Platon à la Renaissance	Saturday 20 nov. 10 / 3.00 PM
Après la Révolution : musique et cinéma sous Staline	Saturday 8 jan. 11 / 3.00 PM
Forum Musiques orthodoxes d'Ethiopie	Saturday 5 feb. 11 / 3.00 PM
Brassens ou la liberté	Saturday 19 mar. 11 / 3.00 PM
John Cage et l'oeuvre ouverte	Saturday 30 aPr. 11 / 3.00 PM

Concerts with museum instruments

The Musée de la Musique is committed to conservation and to knowledge of musical instruments. It does so through meetings with the public at the museum, but also at concerts scheduled at the Amphitheatre as part of the musical season. Well-known and up-and-coming artists bring them to life.

Some concerts also use facsimiles created at the museum’s request when original instruments are no longer in playing condition or would require dangerous restorations.

Concerts played on instruments from the museum are held in the Amphitheatre as part of the musical season.
Accompanying the presentation of its instrumental collections and temporary exhibitions, the Musée de la Musique also screens films enabling the public to place the instruments in their context and to enter into the worlds of composers and musicians;

La Chute d'Adam	SUNDAY 21 nov.. 10 / 3:00 PM
Utopia instrumentalis : fac-similés au musée	SATURDAY 27 nov. 10 / 10:00 PM
Olivier Latry / Jos van Immerseel	SUNDAY  6 mar. 11 / 4::30 PM
EUPHONIA	SUNDAY 13 mar. 11 / 2:30 PM
Skip Sempé, Pierre Hantaï	FRIDAY 25 mar. 11 / 8:00 PM

Recorded concerts from previous seasons are available on line.
See recorded concerts

Concerts-promenades

On every second Sunday of the month, from October to May, musicians, storytellers or dancers spread over the Museum and offer concerts, performances, workshops or rencontres. These concerts-promenades are in accordance with the topics of the season or the temporary exhibitions. The museum echoes with the rare sounds of instruments from our collections or of facsimiles. As you stroll through the museum, you can enjoy a number of mini-concerts, then talk with the musicians. This is a unique opportunity, providing you and your children an original and fun way to learn about music history.

DJANGO	sunday 10 oct. 10 / 2:30 pm
LES MUSICIENS DE BRECHT	sunday 14 nov. 10 / 2:30 pm
HEROINES MYTHIQUES	sunday 12 dec. 10 / 2:30 pm
LENINE, STALINE ET LA MUSIQUE	sunday 9 jan. 11 / 2:30 pm
L'ENFER AU MUSEE	sunday 13 feb. 11 / 2:30 pm
EUPHONIA	sunday 13 mar. 11 / 2:30 pm
PACIFISMES	sunday 10 apr. 11 / 2:30 pm
JULES VERNE ET LA MUSIQUE	sunday 8 maY 11 / 2:30 PM

MUSICIANS IN THE MUSEUM

From Tuesday to Sunday, the musicians come to play in the museum and discuss with visitors, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. During summer holidays, there are pedagogical concerts every day, except on Monday, from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm.

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