Musée Picasso Paris Tickets: Price, Free Entry and Hours

Ticket prices and which one to buy

The museum's tickets page and its prices and membership page both give €16 as the regular price. The same ticket covers the permanent collection and the temporary exhibitions, and the museum calls it a one-way ticket: once you leave, you cannot go back in.

The family rate is the main saving. Two adults with two teenagers pay €24 (the children enter free) instead of €32. One adult with a child pays €12 instead of €16.

The prices page adds that the €12 reduced price "depends on the exhibition spaces opened". The museum's 2025 price list explains why: when only part of the museum is open, the regular price falls to €11 and the family and reduced rates to €9.

Who gets in free

The museum's free-admission conditions list who enters free and what to show:

• everyone on the first Sunday of the month, with no proof;
• under-18s, with an ID card or passport;
• under-26s who are EU residents or EU nationals, with an ID card or passport;
• visitors with a disability and one companion, with a disability card or certificate, including foreign ones;
• Paris Museum Pass holders, teachers with a Pass Éducation, journalists, ICOM and ICOMOS members, and several other professional and social categories listed in the document.

The pages word the youth rule slightly differently. The FAQ says "all EU residents under 26", the free-admission list says EU residents or nationals under 26, and the older prices page says EEA residents aged 18–25. Bring a passport or a residence document; a non-EU visitor aged 18–25 who lives outside the EU should expect to pay.

Free visitors do not need a ticket and cannot book one. The ticket shop says reservations are closed to under-18s, EU under-26s and everyone on the first Sunday: you go straight to the entrance with your ID.

Paris Museum Pass

The pass is on the free-admission list, the older prices page says you show it at the welcome desk to receive your ticket, and the tickets page says the museum's desk also sells the pass. The Paris Museum Pass page for the museum says reserving a time slot is not necessary, although it also displays other booking labels, so check the ticket shop if you want a guaranteed slot. If you are deciding whether a pass is worth buying, see our Paris Museum Pass guide.

Booking a time slot

Booking is optional for paying visitors. The ticket shop sells tickets with an entry time and says to arrive within half an hour of it; the tickets page adds that priority access is guaranteed only in that half hour. The desk on site also sells tickets, but booking avoids its queue. Tickets cannot be returned or exchanged.

The ticket shop currently sells a standard ticket (the collection plus the Henry Taylor display on the lower levels), a "Collection + Kurt Schwitters" ticket and a collection-plus-audioguide ticket, all valid from 27 October 2026 to 6 February 2027, without showing prices before you choose a date. According to the museum's agenda, Kurt Schwitters. Le chaos-monde 1918–1948 runs until 7 February 2027 and the collection display until 12 March 2027.

Opening hours and closures

The visit page (last modified 2 October 2026) and the FAQ give the same timetable; the late opening comes from the FAQ and the Paris Museum Pass page:

• Tuesday to Sunday: 9:30am–6pm. Last admission 5:15pm; rooms are cleared from 5:40pm.
• First Wednesday of the month: open until 10pm, last admission 9:15pm.
• Closed: every Monday, and 1 January, 1 May and 25 December.
• 24 and 31 December: closes at 5pm, last access 4:15pm.

For a December trip, that means the museum is shut on Christmas Day and New Year's Day and closes early on both eves. Our guide to Paris museums on Christmas and New Year's Day lists alternatives for those dates.

Getting there

The museum is in the Hôtel Salé at 5 rue de Thorigny, 75003 Paris, in the Marais. The visit page lists:

• Metro: Saint-Paul (line 1); Saint-Sébastien–Froissart or Chemin Vert (line 8).
• Bus: 96 (Saint-Claude); 75 (Archives–Rambuteau); 69, 76 and 96, and 67 and 72 (Rue Vieille du Temple–Mairie du 4e).

If you are pairing the museum with Notre-Dame on the same day, our Notre-Dame guide covers its free entry and reservations.

Bags, security and accessibility

Backpacks, bottles and umbrellas must go in the free cloakroom on level −1, by the stairs on the right of the lobby. Suitcases and bulky bags are not allowed in the museum and the cloakroom does not take them; the ticket shop cites the national Vigipirate security plan. One line on the visit page also lists backpacks among the bags the cloakroom will not take, so bring a small day bag if you can. If you are between a hotel check-out and a train, use luggage storage near the Paris stations first.

How long to allow

The museum does not publish a typical visit length. With a 9:30am opening and last admission at 5:15pm, arriving before noon leaves room for both the collection, which the ticket shop places on levels 1 to 3, and the temporary exhibition on the lower levels. If you arrive after 4:30pm on a normal day, you will have little more than an hour before the rooms are cleared at 5:40pm; the first-Wednesday late opening is the better choice for an evening visit.