Description

Essentials about the Army Museum in brief

The Army Museum (Musée de l’Armée) is the central museum of military history in France and one of the most important of its kind in the world. It was created in 1905 in the magnificent complex of the Hôtel des Invalides by the merger of the two original military history museums, namely the Artillery Museum with the Army Historical Museum.

The history of the Army Museum

In the course of the French Revolution, the Artillery Museum was first established. Under the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, there was an expansion of the collections. In 1871, the museum moved to its current exhibition site in the Hôtel des Invalides. Following the Paris International Exhibition in 1889, another military museum, the Historical Army Museum, was launched.

The collections of the Army Museum

On an exhibition area of about 8,000 square meters, the Army Museum today displays objects from its military history collection of more than 500,000 exhibits from the Middle Ages to modern times, including weapons of all kinds, uniforms, armor, sculptures, photographs, paintings and orders. The Army Museum also includes the Invalides Cathedral with the tomb of Emperor Napoleon I, the Soldiers’ Church and the Court of Honor with its classic French cannons.

Website

musee-armee.fr

Opening hours

Opening hours Apr. – Oct.:

Admission fees

Adults: €12.00

Concessions: €10.00

Citizens from EU member states (Ages 25 and under): free

Citizens from non-EU states (Ages 18 and under): free

For more information on discounts, see the website.

Address

Getting there

By public transport:

Métro line 8: Stop La Tour Maubourg or Invalides

Métro line 13: Stop Varenne or Saint François-Xavier

RER line C: Stop Invalides

Bus line 28: Stop Invalides-La Tour Maubourg

Bus line 69: Stop Esplanade des Invalides

Bus lines 82 and 92: Stop Vauban Hôtel des Invalides

By car:

The Hôtel des Invalides has a parking garage.