• No booking for the main museum, since the permanent collections are walk-in; book temporary exhibitions online for a set time
• Stroller friendly, with lifts along the whole route and lockers at the entrance for coats and bags
• Snack break in the gardens, which are open to visitors, or at the museum restaurant, Joli; toilets are on level -1

Musée Carnavalet is the city's history museum, running from prehistoric oak dugout canoes to the 20th century. For kids, the standouts are two rooms of old shop signs, the Gallo-Roman finds, and the Revolution rooms with a heater shaped like the Bastille and Marie Antoinette's slipper.

Later rooms hold Mucha's Art Nouveau jewelry shop and Proust's bedroom, and the gardens are open for a snack break.