Is the Musée Nissim de Camondo closed? Yes, until the end of 2029
I led my last group through the house in the final week of July 2024. We finished in the kitchens, as I always did, and a woman from Lyon asked whether she should come back with her daughter in the autumn. I said the autumn was out but that 2027 was not so far off. I was wrong by about three years, and so was everyone else, which is why this page exists. Most of the web still describes a museum you can walk into on a Wednesday morning. You cannot.
What “closed” means at rue de Monceau
It means the whole house. There is no partial opening, no exhibition in the ground-floor rooms while the roof is done, no timed visit for small groups. The museum announced the closure “from 5 August 2024”, so 4 August was the last day the public saw the Grand Salon. Since then the address has been a building site behind a classified façade, and the only thing a visitor can do at no. 63 is stand on the pavement and look up. I do that most weeks on my way through Parc Monceau, and I would not call it a visit.
Why the house closed
The building is a classified Historic Monument, and the works cover its interior spaces, its roofs and its façades. That is a bigger job than it sounds for a house completed in 1914 and never substantially altered since; the whole point of the museum is that nothing has been moved since Moïse de Camondo died in 1935, which also means that nothing has been easy to repair. Part of the cost is being raised through a patronage appeal. I do not print figures on this site, and the sums are on the official site for anyone who wants them.
The timeline, as it has been published
At a glance
- 4 August 2024 Last day open to visitors
- Original plan Reopening early 2027
- June 2026 First phase (safety and electrical work) finished
- Summer 2026 New target announced: end of 2029
- May 2027 Roof works scheduled to start
- 2028 Work on the interior décor
- End of 2029 Reopening targeted; some listings say 2030
The first phase, the unglamorous safety and electrical work, was finished in June 2026. The roofs are scheduled from May 2027, and the interior décor in 2028, which leaves a year for the furniture, the tapestries and the porcelain to go back where they belong. Read that sequence and the slip from 2027 to 2029 stops looking like carelessness. A house whose value is that every chair sits where its owner left it cannot reopen one wing at a time.
Two more pieces of institutional news for anyone following closely. Les Arts Décoratifs, which runs both museums, announced Christine Macel as the new director, joining in October 2026. And the Musée des Arts Décoratifs on rue de Rivoli stays open throughout, with its own programme of exhibitions.
Can I get in with a Paris Museum Pass?
No. The Camondo is a Museum Pass site in normal years, and the pass listing itself now says the museum is closed for renovations until 2030. The pass is still a sensible purchase for a Paris trip built around the Louvre, Orsay and Versailles, and I go through the consecutive-day logic on the Museum Pass page, but do not buy it for the Camondo.
What to do instead
I have four honest suggestions and one dishonest one I will not make. The dishonest one is to book something described as a “Camondo tour”; none exists while the house is shut. The honest four:
- Walk the quarter. The private Haussmann walk from Opéra ends at Parc Monceau, a few minutes from the house, and puts the Camondo in the context of the 19th-century city it was built into. My notes on it are in the walk review.
- See the sister museum. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs holds the same institution’s 18th-century period rooms and décor. It is a different experience from a lived-in house, and I say so plainly on its page.
- Follow the family. The Camondo story ends at Drancy and Auschwitz. A Jewish-history walk through the Marais, with the Shoah Memorial on the route, gives that ending the setting it deserves; the family page explains why.
- Read. Edmund de Waal’s Letters to Camondo is the best preparation for the house I know, and it costs you nothing in waiting.
If you have a Camondo day in your plan, keep it. Walk from Métro Villiers down rue de Monceau past nos. 81 and 63, cross the park to the Musée Cernuschi, then take the ten-minute walk to the Jacquemart-André. You will see the street the family lived on and one collector’s mansion that is open. The around the museum page has the full half-day.
Where I check the date
On madparis.fr, and nowhere else. Aggregator pages copy each other and lag by years; I have seen “open Wednesday to Sunday” on listings updated this summer. When the reopening is announced properly I will rewrite this page and the tickets page the same week.
Frequently asked questions
When will the Musée Nissim de Camondo reopen?
The current target is the end of 2029; the Paris Museum Pass listing rounds that to 2030. The first date announced was early 2027, and it moved in summer 2026. I will update this page when the institution confirms a day.
Why is the Camondo museum closed?
For the restoration of a classified Historic Monument: the interior spaces, the roofs and the façades. A first safety and electrical phase finished in June 2026; roof works start in May 2027 and the interior décor follows in 2028. The house had never been altered before.
Can I see the garden or the outside while it is closed?
You can see the façade from rue de Monceau and the garden side from inside Parc Monceau, and that is all. The park is open as usual and the house sits on its edge.
Is there anything by the same museum I can visit now?
Yes. Les Arts Décoratifs runs the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at 107 rue de Rivoli, which is open and holds French 18th-century period rooms and décor.
Is the Camondo included in the Paris Museum Pass right now?
It is a pass site in normal years, but the pass gives no access while the house is closed; the pass listing itself says “until 2030”. Buy the pass for the Louvre and Orsay, not for the Camondo. Details on the Museum Pass page.