Paris Museum Pass: is it worth it, or should you buy tickets one by one

💡 The Short Version: The Paris Museum Pass pays from about the fourth paid sight in its 48, 96 or 144 hours: €85, €105 or €125, sooner if the Louvre is one of them. Louvre, Sainte-Chapelle, Conciergerie, Orsay and Les Invalides cost €100 at the door, against €85 for the 2-day pass. It does not skip the booking: Orsay, the Orangerie, Sainte-Chapelle, the Conciergerie and the Louvre still need a free slot. Under-18s and EU residents under 26 go free without it. The Palais Garnier is not on it. Buy the pass from parismuseumpass.fr: GetYourGuide’s listing was from £94.28 against about £72.85 for the official 2-day pass. Or book a ticket: for one or two sights, Orsayad (from £11.14), Sainte-Chapelle with the Conciergeriead (from £21.43) and the Arc de Triomphead (from £13.71) are each one booking.

The pass, or single tickets

Official prices for an adult from outside the EEA, read on each sight’s own site on 30 September 2026; GetYourGuide prices are its lowest “from” price the same day. Euros are converted at the ECB rate of 29 September (€1 = £0.857).

What the pass costs

The official prices, from parismuseumpass.fr (30 September 2026):

• The hours run consecutively from the first visit, and each site can be entered once.
• It excludes temporary exhibitions, and it is not refunded or exchanged.
• It covers more than 50 sights, including the Louvre, Versailles, the Notre-Dame towers and everything in the table above except the Garnier. It does not cover the Eiffel Tower.
• It is sold online and at the ticket desks of the sights, such as the Musée de l’Armée.

Does it pay? Two days, worked out

A Wednesday and a Thursday, with the pass starting on Wednesday morning, at the doors’ prices for a UK or US visitor:

The 2-day pass, at €85, saves €31 to €37. Without the Louvre and the Arc, the other four sights come to €68, so single tickets cost less: the Louvre is what makes the pass pay. Three sights, such as the Louvre, Sainte-Chapelle and Orsay, come to €70, and single tickets are cheaper there too.

The pass does not help if you go free. Museums and monuments are mostly free for visitors under 18 and for EU nationals under 26.

The sights, one by one

Musée d’Orsay

€16 online, €14 at the museum · closed Mondays · open to 21:45 on Thursdays · from £11.14 on GetYourGuide

The museum’s own price is €16 online and €14 at the desk, and a night rate of €12 online (musee-orsay.fr, 30 September 2026). It is free for everyone on the first Sunday of the month, with a reserved ticket. Paris: Orsay Museum Entry Ticketad (4.7 stars from 28,207 reviews) is a day ticket to the collections and exhibitions, from £11.14; its price varies by date and time slot, against the museum’s €16 online (about £13.71). It is non-refundable. Orsay with a digital audio guide appad is from £23.06 (4.4 stars from 4,908 reviews): the app covers selected works, not the whole collection.

The central hall of the Musée d’Orsay, under the old station clock. Photo: Ibex73, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Musée de l’Orangerie

€12.50 online, €11 at the museum · closed Tuesdays · from £11.57 on GetYourGuide

The Water Lilies rooms in the Tuileries. The museum’s own tickets are €12.50 online and €11 at the desk, €10 online on Friday evenings during exhibitions, and a combined Orsay and Orangerie ticket is €20 at the museum (musee-orangerie.fr, 30 September 2026). The reserved entrance ticketad (4.7 stars from 7,262 reviews) is from £11.57, which is 86p more than the museum’s online price (about £10.71). It is non-refundable.

Sainte-Chapelle and the Conciergerie

Sainte-Chapelle €22, Conciergerie €13, both €30 · timed entry · from £21.43 on GetYourGuide

Since 12 January 2026, Sainte-Chapelle has charged visitors from outside the EEA €22 and EEA visitors €16. The twin ticket with the Conciergerie is €30 (EEA €23), sold on the Sainte-Chapelle site, and the Conciergerie alone is €13, with no EEA split (sainte-chapelle.fr and paris-conciergerie.fr, 30 September 2026). A TGV or Intercités ticket less than five days old brings Sainte-Chapelle to €18 (€13 for EEA visitors). Paris: Sainte-Chapelle and Conciergerie Combined Ticketsad (4.4 stars from 10,567 reviews) is from £21.43: choose the adult category if you are from outside the EEA, and the EU citizen category if you are from the EEA. It is non-refundable.

The upper chapel of Sainte-Chapelle. Photo: Gerda Arendt, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

Panthéon

Ticket price by season on its own site · nave and crypt · from £11.14 on GetYourGuide

The ticket covers the nave and the crypt; the panoramic view is closed to visitors (paris-pantheon.fr, 30 September 2026). The admission ticketad (4.6 stars from 7,387 reviews) is from £11.14, non-refundable.

The Panthéon, Place du Panthéon. Photo: Chabe01, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Les Invalides

€17 · open every day, 10:00–18:00 · from £14.57 on GetYourGuide

The “Museum and exhibitions” ticket, €17, covers the permanent collections, the Dome church with Napoleon’s tomb, the temporary exhibition, the Musée de l’Ordre de la Libération and the Musée des Plans-Reliefs (musee-armee.fr, 30 September 2026). A combined ticket with the Musée Rodin is €26 instead of €30. The entry ticket on GetYourGuidead (4.6 stars from 10,930 reviews) is from £14.57, the same as €17, and non-refundable.

The Dôme des Invalides, where Napoleon’s tomb lies. Photo: Maksim Sokolov, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Arc de Triomphe

€22 April to September (€16 on Wednesdays), €16 October to March · 284 steps · from £13.71 on GetYourGuide

The ticket covers the whole monument and the terrace (paris-arc-de-triomphe.fr, 30 September 2026). The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is free. The rooftop ticket on GetYourGuidead (4.7 stars from 38,070 reviews) is from £13.71, the price of the €16 rate; the €22 summer price is £18.85.

Palais Garnier

€25, or €15 for EEA visitors · 1½ hours · online only · from £21.43 on GetYourGuide

The self-guided visit is sold online only; the opera house sells no visit tickets on site (operadeparis.fr, 30 September 2026). It is €25 for visitors from outside the EEA and €15 for EEA visitors. Rehearsals close the auditorium at short notice, and no ticket guarantees access to it. The self-guided tour on GetYourGuidead (4.6 stars from 19,512 reviews) is from £21.43, the same as the €25 price, and non-refundable.

What to see

• Orsay: the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists (Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Seurat, Gauguin) are on the 5th floor, with the Café Campana and, in summer, a terrace over the rooftops at the exit of that gallery. The museum’s guide map puts the earlier 19th-century work below: Ingres, Delacroix, Courbet, Millet and Manet. Take the 5th floor first, while you are fresh.
• Orangerie: the Water Lilies, in the museum’s Great Decorations rooms, and the Walter-Guillaume collection.
• Sainte-Chapelle: a lower chapel and an upper chapel. The upper chapel has 15 stained-glass windows with 1,113 scenes, two-thirds of them medieval, a western rose window and 100 different capitals.
• Conciergerie: the site’s highlights are Marie-Antoinette’s time there, prison life during the Revolution, the royal kitchens and the Gothic royal palace; HistoPad tablets are available until 16:15.
• Panthéon: the nave and the crypt, with Foucault’s pendulum, which the monument lists among its highlights.
• Les Invalides: the Dome church with Napoleon’s tomb, the museum’s arms and armour, and two smaller museums on the same ticket.
• Arc de Triomphe: the terrace at the top of 284 steps, and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at its foot.
• Palais Garnier: the public areas, including the Grand Escalier and the library-museum, in about 1½ hours.

On the day

Hours and closing days are the sights’ own, read on 30 September 2026.

• Orsay is being renovated until summer 2028 but stays open. Timed tickets and Paris Museum Pass holders use the Quay entrance, and visitors with luggage, or without a timed ticket, the Forecourt entrance.
• Sainte-Chapelle: arrive at the time on your ticket and not before. Bulky luggage, glass bottles and sharp objects are not allowed, and a pushchair must be small and foldable, and stays out of the upper chapel.
• The Arc’s lift is out of service until further notice, so the terrace is by the stairs only. There is no left luggage, and the largest bag allowed is 40 × 40 × 20 cm. Access is by the Passage du Souvenir, at the top of the Champs-Élysées or the Avenue de la Grande-Armée.
• The Panthéon has no cloakroom, and only standard backpacks are accepted. Food and drink are not allowed.
• The Garnier’s cloakrooms are closed, and suitcases and travel bags are not allowed.
• Fake sites: Orsay and the Orangerie both warn about mirror sites. Buy from the museum’s own address, which ends in .fr.

The Louvre and the Eiffel Tower need their own booking: see Louvre tickets and Eiffel Tower tickets. For which days each sight closes, and the rest of what to book, see what to book before you go. The 3-day itinerary arranges these sights so that none falls on its closing day. The Catacombs are not on the pass; see Catacombs tickets.