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.

Online ticketing is limited up to 9 tickets. For groups with more than 9 people, please send a group reservation request to infos@pavillons-de-bercy.com. Groups booking directly online without prior contact may be refused access.

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.

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Buy tickets for our guided tours or our Festival du Merveilleux (only available at the end of the year).

Festival du Merveilleux

From December 26th to January 4th.

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.

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

Tickets are non-refundable nor exchangeable.

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French guided tour

Our museum is accessible year-round through guided tours only. 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 (Chinese, Japanese, Spanish or Italian) to help non-French-speaking visitors follow the tour. Our tours in English are primarily scheduled during the summer. To book for a tour in English, please opt out and then select the tours in english section to see the calendar.

The tour lasts one and a half hours and is recommended for children aged 6 and above.

No access to the museum on the following days:

November : Week-end 15th and 16th, Sat 11/22, Week-end 29th & 30th

December : Week-ends 7th & 8th and 13th&14th

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

No tours available for the moment, please check later

English guided tour (occasionally)

The museum is accessible only with prior booking for guided tours. For non-French-speaking visitors eager to discover a hidden gem in Paris, we occasionally schedule a few English tours.

We mainly schedule English tours during the summer and try to schedule an English tour once a week. If no English tours are available, please check the more frequent French tours. For French tours, we provide an English handout to help non-French speakers follow along.

In November and December very few guided tours are scheduled and the museum is not accessible to the public over week-ends. Tours will resume in 2026. Our next highlight is our Festival du Merveilleux, from December 26th to January 4th.

Please note that there is often transportation maintenance on line 14. Make sure to check your itinerary on the RATP website before your visit.

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.

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

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Rates include a €0.80 fee for online purchases.

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Gift voucher Festival du Merveilleux (to exchange for tickets)

Offer the Festival du Merveilleux as a gift. No need to choose a date to buy the vouchers, your guest will be able to choose the date themselves later. Available for purchase until December 26th. This vouchers needs to be imperatively swaped for tickets on our online ticketing. Do not exchange this gift voucher at the last minute.

Please note that this year, the Festival du Merveilleux lasts from December 27th to January the 5th, make sure your guests are available during this period of time, as these gift vouchers are non-refundable.

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