Artist’s Studio Museum · 9th Arrondissement · Pigalle
Musée Gustave Moreau & the Paris Museum Pass
The Symbolist master’s extraordinary four-storey studio-house in Pigalle — thousands of paintings, drawings and watercolours stacked floor to ceiling exactly as he left them.
Individual ticket
€7
With Museum Pass
Included
Timed slot
Not required
Open
Daily (exc. Tue)
Hours
10am–6pm
Last updated: February 2026 · Prices and details verified
Is the Musée Gustave Moreau included in the Paris Museum Pass?
Yes — the Paris Museum Pass covers full entry to the Musée Gustave Moreau, saving you €7 per person. No reservation required — walk in any day except Tuesday during opening hours.
About Musée Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau (1826–1898) was the leading Symbolist painter in France and the teacher of Matisse and Rouault. Unlike most artists, he transformed his family home into a museum during his own lifetime, designing the building’s upper floors specifically to display his work. He bequeathed the entire house and collection to the French state in 1897.
The pass covers the full museum across four floors: the family apartment (ground floor), Moreau’s personal collection and small paintings (first floor), and the two extraordinary grand studios (second and third floors) with their curved galleries and thousands of works displayed from floor to ceiling. A single ticket also gives access to the Musée Jean-Jacques Henner within 72 hours.
No reservation required. No reservation required. Walk in at 14 Rue de La Rochefoucauld any day except Tuesday. The museum has no elevator and three staircases — not accessible for wheelchair users.
Note: A single ticket also grants access to the Musée Jean-Jacques Henner (43 Avenue de Villiers, 17th arrondissement) within 72 hours — both are covered by the Museum Pass. The ground floor rooms (A–F) are closed from 11:30am on some days when visitor numbers are high — arrive at opening for guaranteed full access.
Practical Tips
Tip 1
Arrive at 10am opening — the ground floor rooms (the most intimate, showing Moreau’s personal life) close mid-morning when the museum fills up. You cannot guarantee access to them after 11:30am.
Tip 2
The two grand studios on the upper floors are the heart of the collection — enormous spiralling spaces with thousands of works on display simultaneously. This is unique in Paris: not a curated selection but a complete archive.
Musée Gustave Moreau — Fast Facts
Address
14 Rue de La Rochefoucauld, 75009 Paris
Nearest Metro
Trinité–d’Estienne d’Orves (Metro 12) — 5 min walk · Saint-Georges (Metro 12) — 8 min walk
Bus
26, 32, 43, 67, 74
Opening hours
Daily 10am–6pm (except Tuesday) · Closed 1 January, 1 May, 25 December
Closed
Tuesdays, 1 January, 1 May, 25 December
Individual ticket
€7 (2026)
With Museum Pass
Free — included
Reservation
Not required
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€7 entry included with the Museum Pass. Plus 50+ more venues across Paris.
Yes — the pass covers full entry to the Musée Gustave Moreau, saving €7 per person. No reservation required. The museum is closed on Tuesdays. A single ticket (or your pass) also gives access to the Musée Jean-Jacques Henner within 72 hours.
Moreau designed the museum himself during his lifetime — the upper two floors were purpose-built grand studios with curved gallery balconies specifically to display thousands of his works simultaneously. Rather than a curated selection, the studios show everything: finished canvases stacked alongside sketches, studies, watercolours, and preparatory drawings. It is unlike any other artist’s museum in Paris.
Moreau taught at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1892 to 1898 and was one of the most influential teachers of his era. His students included Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Albert Marquet, and Charles Camoin — many of the future Fauvist movement. The contrast between Moreau’s dense Symbolist mythology and his students’ radically simplified colour work is one of the great ironies of French art history.
