How to get to the Musée Gustave Moreau

By metro, line 12

The museum is fortunate to be served by two stations on the same line. If coming from the south, exit at Trinité–d’Estienne-d’Orves: with your back to the church, walk up rue de La Rochefoucauld, and rue Catherine-de-La-Rochefoucauld will open on your right. If coming from the north, Saint-Georges is also convenient: from the square, walk down rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette for a few dozen metres, then turn right. In both cases, it’s a three- or four-minute flat walk.

Pigalle, on lines 2 and 12, is a seven- or eight-minute walk downhill. This is the exit to remember if you’re arriving on line 2 from the east or west of Paris. Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, on line 12, is five minutes away. Several bus routes also stop a few minutes from the door.

On foot from the Opéra or the Palais Garnier

This is the route I prefer, as it crosses a part of Paris that visitors never notice. From place de l’Opéra, take rue de la Chaussée-d’Antin north to the Église de la Trinité, then rue de La Rochefoucauld. It’s a gentle ten- to twelve-minute uphill walk. In the other direction, this makes the Palais Garnier the natural follow-up to a visit to the museum.

From the Musée d’Orsay

The Musée d’Orsay is on the other side of the Seine, but line 12 makes the journey directly: from Solférino to Trinité without changing, about fifteen minutes by metro, twenty minutes door to door. This is the connection I recommend on the Musée d’Orsay visits page, in either direction. Guided tours of the Musée d’Orsay meet on rue de la Légion-d’Honneur or on the esplanade Valéry-Giscard-d’Estaing, both just a short walk from Solférino station.

From Montmartre, walking downhill

From the Sacré-Cœur, walk down via rue des Martyrs or rue Houdon to Pigalle, then continue straight south along rue Jean-Baptiste-Pigalle or rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. It’s a twenty- to twenty-five-minute walk, entirely downhill, with no stairs if you avoid the streets skirting the hill. In the other direction, the climb is steep; the guided walks in Montmartre generally start from Abbesses or Blanche, two stations a ten-minute walk from the museum.

From airports and train stations

I’ll keep this general, as schedules and connections vary. From Roissy–Charles-de-Gaulle, take the RER B to Gare du Nord, then a short metro ride, or the Roissybus to the Opéra followed by a ten-minute walk. From Orly, reach a station on line 12 and continue to Trinité. From Gare Saint-Lazare, the museum is a short walk uphill to Trinité. From Gare du Nord or Gare de l’Est, the simplest option is the metro to Saint-Georges or Pigalle.

Once at the door

The façade is unassuming, one townhouse among others, with an additional floor added in 1896. You enter directly into the bookshop, where the ticket desk is located. There are no time slots or queues, usually. The museum opens at 10:00 a.m. and is closed on Tuesdays; all details are on the opening hours page.

Planning your day around

The museum sits at the centre of a convenient triangle: the Palais Garnier to the south, the Musée d’Orsay on the other side of the river via Line 12, and Montmartre to the north. If you visit several national museums during your stay, the Paris Museum Pass includes the Musée Gustave Moreau, the Musée d’Orsay, the Louvre, and around sixty other sites, with priority access where queues exist.

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