Underground & cool · Free sculptor's studio-museum · € · 15e · Vaugirard & Beaugrenelle
Musée Bourdelle
Antoine Bourdelle — Rodin's assistant, teacher to Giacometti — lived, taught and cast bronze on this Montparnasse plot until 1929, and the studios, apartment and two sculpture gardens survive almost untouched. The plaster hall lines up his monumental casts, 'Herakles the Archer' among them.
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The two gardens and the great glass studio are free; the plaster-cast hall, not the bronzes, is the room people remember.
Getting there
- Falguière12170 m · 3 min walk
- Gare Montparnasse461213300 m · 6 min walk
- Pasteur612440 m · 8 min walk
Around the corner
Tour Montparnasse · 270 m away
Tour Maine-Montparnasse, also commonly named Tour Montparnasse, is a 210-metre (689 ft) office skyscraper in the Montparnasse area of Paris, France. Constructed from 1969 to 1973, it was the tallest skyscraper in France until 2011, when it was surpassed by the 231-metre (758 ft) Tour First in the La Défense business district west of Paris's city limits. It remains the tallest building in Paris proper and the fourth tallest in France, behind the Link, Tour First and Tour Hekla. As of February 2026, it is the 59th-tallest building in Europe.
Wikipedia ↗Walks that pass nearby
- Paris Verticalstop 5 of 6 · 270 m
Tour Montparnasse
210 m. The 56th-floor observation deck and rooftop terrace. The single best view of the Eiffel Tower in the city — because you're looking at it from above, with the whole of central Paris between.
Take the lift (38 seconds) to floor 56, then a short staircase to the open-air rooftop. Better than the Eiffel for sunset because the Eiffel is in your photo. Closed for maintenance occasionally; check the day-of schedule.
Within a few minutes' walk
Where to stay near Musée Bourdelle
- Lenox MontparnasseBoutique hotel€€ · 13 minA 19th-century Haussmann block on rue Delambre, the street where Man Ray kept a studio and the Montparnasse drinkers kept rooms; reworked with a small bar off the lobby. Scores consistently high for comfort and location.
- Hôtel Raspail MontparnasseArt Deco boutique hotel€€ · 16 minAn Art Deco building at the Raspail–Montparnasse crossroads, in the quarter the painters actually worked — Modigliani, Man Ray, the Montparnos. Several upper rooms look toward the Montparnasse tower.
- Hôtel des Académies et des ArtsBoutique hotel€€ · 16 minTwenty rooms on the Montparnasse street where Modigliani and Foujita kept studios and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière still teaches life drawing. Sculpture and contemporary works through the rooms, a small courtyard.
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The district · 15e
Vaugirard & Beaugrenelle — Residential ParisThe most populous arrondissement and the least touristed — market streets like Rue du Commerce, the riverside Parc André-Citroën with its balloon, and the green ribbon of the Petite Ceinture.
Best for: Budget and family stays that want quiet and space over a central postcode.
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