Nuit des Musées 2025 at the Musée de Cluny dedicated to the Middle Ages in Paris: the program for the nocturne

The Musée de Cluny is opening its doors free of charge this Saturday, May 17, 2025, for the 21st Nuit des Musées. The program includes free musical tours of this museum dedicated to the Middle Ages in Paris. Discover the full program.

In the heart of the Latin Quarter, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, the Musée de Cluny brings together relics from the Middle Ages in a beautiful museum, located in the place of the former Gallo-Roman baths of Cluny, whose frigidarium is still visible.

It's a magnificent place to visit, as much for its architecture as for its collections. The Gallo-Roman baths have withstood almost 1800 years of history, in the heart of a city in perpetual motion. In 1485, the abbots of Cluny built their residence against the thermal baths, the high building where the collections of the Museum of the Middle Ages are housed!

The Musée de Cluny showcases its rich collection, with over 1,600 treasures from the Middle Ages, including the famous Lady and the Unicorn tapestry. The exhibition takes visitors through several centuries ofart andhistory, revealing traces of a culture both near and far from our own.

The Musée de Cluny, Paris' museum of the Middle Ages, its program and age-old treasures
Located in the heart of the Latin Quarter, the Musée de Cluny is housed in the 13th-century Hôtel des Abbés de Cluny, and is home to works of art even older than that! Come and visit this museum dedicated to the Middle Ages in Paris. [Read more]

All these works can be discovered free of charge this Saturday, May 17, 2025, on the occasion of the 21st Nuit des Musées. During this exceptional evening, the Musée de Cluny opensits doors to all, and even proposes some special animations...

On the program for the 21st Nuit des Musées at the Musée de Cluny in Paris:

Saturday, May 17, 2025, 6pm to 11:30pm, without reservation

Self-guided tour
Spend an evening in the company of the greatest masterpieces of medieval art!
The Musée de Cluny's collections, comprising 24,000 of the finest works of medieval art, are world-renowned for the famous tapestries of the "Lady with the Unicorn", the extraordinary "Golden Rose", the sculptures of Notre-Dame de Paris and the stained-glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle.
Need a gourmet break? Stop off at the Café des Amis, located at the heart of the tour route.
Last admission at 11:00 pm. Café closes at 11:30pm. Halls evacuated from 11.30pm.

Summoning chimeras. Medieval heritage in contemporary art
How does the Middle Ages inspire contemporary art? From March 25 to July 20, 2025, some fifteen contemporary works are invited into the collections of the Musée de Cluny for a dialogue between the Middle Ages and contemporary art.
Theexhibition "Convoquer les chimères. Héritage médiéval dans l'art contemporain" brings together works from the collection of the Fonds régional d'art contemporain (Frac) Île-de-France and artists. Their fantastical universes are a direct legacy of the medieval taste for hybrid and marvelous figures that populate our heroic fantasy-tinged imaginations, a frequent gateway to an often fantasized Middle Ages.
This exhibition is part of the program "Berserk & Pyrrhia, art contemporain et art médiéval", proposed by the Frac Île-de-France.
Last admission at 11:00 pm. Halls must be vacated by 11:30pm.

Musical interludes
Five passionate young musicians invite you on a unique musical journey through time!
With their rare instruments from the Middle Ages - recorders, ancient oboes, sackbuts and other sonic oddities - the Into the Winds artists will perform four mini-concerts featuring music from the courts and cathedrals of yesteryear.
From Gothic Europe to the splendors of the Burgundian court, their repertoire brings to life the atmosphere of medieval festivals and Renaissance palaces, through motets, troubadour songs, fanfares, court music and ceremonial ringing!
Last admission at 11:00 pm. Five passionate young musicians invite you on a unique musical journey through time!
With their rare instruments from the Middle Ages - recorders, ancient oboes, sackbuts and other sonic oddities - the Into the Winds artists will perform four mini-concerts featuring music from the courts and cathedrals of yesteryear.
From Gothic Europe to the splendors of the Burgundian court, their repertoire brings to life the atmosphere of medieval festivals and Renaissance palaces, through motets, troubadour songs, fanfares, court music and ceremonial ringing!
Last admission at 11:00 pm. Evacuation of halls from 11:30pm.

Ke programme est mis à jour en fonction des annonces officielles.

Unfairly overlooked, this beautiful museum takes us into the night (or rather, until 11.30pm), with a fascinating and unusual program. Let yourself be tempted by this rendez-vous full of surprises! Shall we go?