Explore Jean Nouvel's extraordinary riverside museum in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, home to 700,000 indigenous art objects from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas — led by an expert private guide.
What to expect
Your guide meets you at the museum's dramatic jungle-garden entrance and leads you through curator-curated highlights: ancient Aztec feather mosaics, Maori meeting-house carvings, Oceanian bark paintings. The building itself is a work of art — Nouvel's glass-and-steel structure floats on pilotis above a wild garden, with the Eiffel Tower framed in every skylight. The rooftop terrace offers one of Paris's finest iron-lady views.
Good to know
Museum entry EUR 14 per adult (separate from guide fee). Closed Mondays. The gardens alone deserve 30 minutes. Book the guide at least 2 weeks ahead; the museum is a 5-minute walk from the Eiffel Tower.