Le Musée des Arts Forains

Visit the Pavillons de Bercy - Musée des Arts Forains

- Our museum can only be visited with prior booking for a guided tour and tickets cannot be purchased directly at the museum. Please ensure you book online in advance.

- Our guided tours are conducted in French, but we provide non-French-speaking visitors an English leaflet. Tours are scheduled all year-round, on Wednesdays, weekends and every day during the French school holidays. All our tour guides are comedians who will take you on a 90-minute journey through our different venues, allowing you to ride some of our ancient carrousels and enjoy mechanical music shows.

- At the end of the year, we organize the Festival du Merveilleux. This is the only time when the public can explore our rooms without a guide. This festive event is filled with by many small shows throughout the day.

PLEASE NOTE: Metro line 14, which serves the museum, is sometimes closed for maintenance. Be sure to check your route before purchasing tickets on the RATP website.

French guided tour

Please note: The museum will not be open to the public on the last weekends of November and December. Few visits will be possible at the end of the year, so join us for our Festival du Merveilleux from 27/12.

Our museum is accessible year-round through guided tours. Prior booking is required. We open tour slots for online booking two weeks in advance. As our private museum also hosts private events, it’s not always possible to schedule tours. Feel free to contact us before planning your visit.

Tours are usually scheduled on Wednesdays, weekends, and every day during French school holidays.

Please note that this tour is conducted in French. We provide a handout in English to help non-French-speaking visitors follow the tour. Our tours in English are primarily scheduled during the summer.

The tour lasts one and a half hours and is recommended for children aged 5 and above.

Rates include a €0.80 fee for online purchases.
Tickets are neither exchangeable nor refundable.

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Festival du Merveilleux

From December 27th to January 5th.

No guided tours during the festival.

The Festival du Merveilleux is another way of discovering the museum. The rest of the year we only do guided tours. During the festival, you have access to all our different rooms and can assist to a wide range of small shows.

Choose a time slot to enter the museum, you can then stay as long as you want. Those time slots enable us to avoid a crowded entrance. Priority is given to online tickets. You can also purchase your tickets directly at the museum entrance but they might not be available if the time slot is full.

Rates including a 0,80€ fee for online purchase.

Tickets are non-refundable nor exchangeable.

Buy your tickets