Musée Gustave Moreau Museum

Address: 14 rue de la Rochefoucauld, 75009 Paris, France

Website: http://musee-moreau.fr/

A small Paris museum housed in the former home and studio of painter Gustave Moreau, preserving his working spaces and a large personal collection of paintings and drawings. The museum offers an intimate view of the artist’s practice.

Rooms include the artist’s studio and the apartment galleries, where finished works hang alongside sketches and studies; the display reflects Moreau’s bequest of his collection to the state. Visits show the scale and density of his creative output.

The museum was created from Moreau’s own home after his death and opened to present his works in situ, functioning both as an art collection and as a historic artist’s house.

Located in Paris, in the city’s 9th arrondissement, the museum is a short walk from central Paris neighborhoods and is approached from nearby streets in the Saint-Georges area.

• House museum: Located in Moreau’s former home and studio, the museum retains the original arrangement of his workspace and displays a large concentration of his works and study pieces.

What to See#

• Artist’s studio: The artist’s preserved studio, which houses many paintings, studies, and tools as arranged by Gustave Moreau himself.
• Apartment galleries: The former family apartment and adjoining rooms converted into small galleries that display drawings, watercolors, and finished paintings in a domestic layout.

Musée Gustave Moreau is in central Paris (9th arrondissement) at Rue de la Rochefoucauld. Take Paris Métro line 12 to Saint‑Georges or Notre‑Dame‑de‑Lorette; both are a short walk (only a few minutes) to the museum from the metro exits. It’s also an easy walk from Opéra or Place Pigalle if you are already in the city centre.

• Go midweek in the morning when the museum is at its quietest; the collection is compact and early visits let you study Moreau's details without crowds.
• Enter via the museum's address on rue de La Rochefoucauld and allow 45-60 minutes so you can see both the downstairs galleries and the preserved upstairs studio.
• Make a point to see the artist's studio and the richly decorated small rooms on the upper floors - these are the museum's highlights that many visitors breeze past.