The Musée Picasso holds the largest public collection of Picasso's work anywhere, built almost entirely from pieces the artist kept for himself and that his family later gave to France in lieu of inheritance tax. Housed in the Hôtel Salé, a grand 17th-century mansion in the Marais, it traces his entire career — Blue Period through Cubism to his final decades — without needing to borrow from anyone else's collection.
- Because the collection came from Picasso's own holdings, it includes working sketches and unfinished pieces rarely shown elsewhere
- The building itself, the Hôtel Salé, is worth seeing independent of the art — a rare intact 17th-century private mansion
- Rotating temporary exhibitions often pair Picasso's work with contemporary artists he influenced
- Hours
- 10:30–18:00 (until 18:30 weekends), closed Mondays
- Price
- €16, free first Sunday of the month (Oct–Mar)
- Tip
- Buy tickets online — this is one of the Marais's most popular stops and same-day lines can be long on weekends.
Nearby
- L Le Marais · neighborhood
- P Place des Vosges · square
- C Centre Pompidou · museum