Hôtel de la Marine

Hôtel de la Marine is a paid-ticket monument on Place de la Concorde, one of a matching pair of colonnaded palaces — its twin across the square today houses the Hôtel de Crillon — built between 1758 and 1774 to designs by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, the king's chief architect, as part of his wider design for the square itself. Open daily 10:30-19:00 and Friday until 21:30; last admission is one hour before closing. Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas. Open daily 10:30-19:00 and Friday until 21:30; last admission is one hour before closing. Adult Al Thani Collection and apartments routes start around EUR 17; audio-guide and combined products vary. Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas. Metro Concorde, Madeleine or RER A Auber. Yes. Worship, events, maintenance, weather and security can change ordinary access. No. Special tours, exhibitions and upgrades use separate tickets. Open daily 10:30-19:00 and Friday until 21:30; last admission is one hour before closing. Adult Al Thani Collection and apartments routes start around EUR 17; audio-guide and combined products vary. Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas. Metro Concorde, Madeleine or RER A Auber. Open daily 10:30-19:00 and Friday until 21:30; last admission is one hour before closing. Adult Al Thani Collection and apartments routes start around EUR 17; audio-guide and combined products vary. Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas. Metro Concorde, Madeleine or RER A Auber. Yes. Worship, events, maintenance, weather and security can change ordinary access. No. Special tours, exhibitions and upgrades use separate tickets. Open daily 10:30-19:00 and Friday until 21:30; last admission is one hour before closing. Adult Al

The restored apartments of the Intendant du Garde-Meuble — the official who oversaw the royal furniture collection — are furnished and decorated as close to their eighteenth-century state as the restoration could establish, room by room, with an audio guide included in the ticket that walks through the sequence of salons, dining rooms and private apartments in the order they were originally used. Adult Al Thani Collection and apartments routes start around EUR 17; audio-guide and combined products vary. Metro Concorde, Madeleine or RER A Auber.

Around ninety minutes to two hours for the state apartments with the included audio guide, plus another forty-five minutes if the Al Thani Collection galleries are part of the visit, and travellers pressed for time can skip the loggia terrace and still see the core apartments in under an hour. Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas.

Open daily 10:30-19:00 and Friday until 21:30; last admission is one hour before closing. Metro Concorde, Madeleine or RER A Auber. Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas. Adult Al Thani Collection and apartments routes start around EUR 17; audio-guide and combined products vary.

Adult Al Thani Collection and apartments routes start around EUR 17; audio-guide and combined products vary. The base amount and currency follow the operator tariff; premium products and separate institutions remain excluded unless named. Yes. Worship, events, maintenance, weather and security can change ordinary access.

Metro Concorde, Madeleine or RER A Auber. Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas. Open daily 10:30-19:00 and Friday until 21:30; last admission is one hour before closing. Adult Al Thani Collection and apartments routes start around EUR 17; audio-guide and combined products vary.

Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas. Open daily 10:30-19:00 and Friday until 21:30; last admission is one hour before closing. Adult Al Thani Collection and apartments routes start around EUR 17; audio-guide and combined products vary. Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas. Historic surfaces, crowds and security remain relevant.

The loggia terrace looking out over Place de la Concorde and the obelisk is the signature shot from inside the building, especially in the late afternoon when the light rakes across the square. Photography without flash is generally allowed through the state apartments; some Al Thani Collection galleries restrict it further to protect the objects on loan, so a visitor planning to photograph the whole visit should expect a mix of rules from room to room rather than one blanket policy. Adult Al Thani Collection and apartments routes start around EUR 17; audio-guide and combined products vary.