Underground & cool · Unusual museum · €€ · 3e · Haut Marais
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
A Marais mansion where taxidermy, antique weaponry and contemporary art share period rooms — including a ceiling lined with owl feathers. One of the city's strangest, best small museums.
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Free the first Sunday of the month and for under-18s; Wednesday evenings run late, Sep–Jun.
Getting there
- Rambuteau11380 m · 7 min walk
- Arts et Métiers311460 m · 9 min walk
- Temple3580 m · 11 min walk
Around the corner
Square du Temple – Elie-Wiesel · 220 m away
The Square du Temple – Elie-Wiesel is a garden square in Paris, France, in the 3rd arrondissement, established in 1857. It is one of 24 city squares planned and created by Georges-Eugène Haussmann and Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand. The square occupies the site of a medieval fortress in Paris, known as the Enclos du Temple, which was built by the Knights Templar. Parts of the fortress were later used as a prison during the French Revolution and then demolished by the mid-19th century.
Wikipedia ↗Walks that pass nearby
- Upper Maraisstop 1 of 6 · 220 m
Square du Temple
Where the medieval Temple complex once stood — the headquarters of the Knights Templar in France, demolished by Napoleon in 1808. Louis XVI was imprisoned in the Temple's tower from 1792 until his execution. Now a gentle public garden with a bandstand and a playground.
Enter from Rue de Bretagne. The bronze plaque on the south wall traces the outline of the medieval Temple precinct. The garden's hidden secret: a small carp pond at the back, almost always empty of visitors.
- Secret Gardensstop 3 of 6 · 280 m
Jardin Anne Frank
Hidden behind the 17th-century Hôtel de Saint-Aignan (which houses the Jewish History Museum). Three small terraced gardens: an entry courtyard, an orchard with a chestnut tree grafted from the tree Anne Frank wrote about from her Amsterdam annexe, and a small kitchen garden. Inaugurated 2007.
Enter via the small archway at 14 Impasse Berthaud — there's no sign on the street; you're looking for an unmarked passageway. Free entry. The chestnut sapling is in the second courtyard, with a small plaque. Closes at dusk.
- Cocktail Barsstop 4 of 6 · 290 m
Le Mary Celeste
1 Rue Commines, opened 2013 by the team behind Candelaria (the Marais speakeasy that started Paris's cocktail revival). Octopus-themed (look up at the chandelier), tight space, focus on small plates and short, idiosyncratic cocktail menus. Reservations now mandatory weekends.
Get the oysters with mignonette. The cocktail menu rotates every few months; ask the bartender to make the bartender's-choice if you can't decide. Standing-room at the bar is sometimes available without reservation if you arrive at 18:00 opening.
- Markets of Parisstop 1 of 6 · 300 m
Marché des Enfants Rouges
39 Rue de Bretagne, founded 1615 — the oldest covered market in Paris. Named for the red-clothed orphans of a nearby 16th-century orphanage. Now equal parts produce and prepared-food stalls; the Moroccan and Italian counters at lunch are excellent.
Closed Mondays. Lunch is the move — three or four prepared-food counters serve actual meals at communal tables in the back. The Moroccan tagine counter is the local favourite; arrive at noon to beat the queue. Closes 14:30.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Breizh Café (Le Marais)Crêperie€€ · 5 minBuckwheat galettes done seriously — a complète or a seafood galette, a bowl of artisanal cider, then salted-butter-caramel to finish.
- Chez Alain Miam MiamGalette-sandwich counter€ · 5 minAlain Roussel griddles buckwheat galettes and toasted sandwiches to order — cured ham, comté, avocado, caramelised onions — a few steps from the Marché des Enfants Rouges. The queue at his counter is reliably the longest on the street.
- Chez OmarNorth African couscous€€ · 5 minAn old-Marais brasserie that has poured couscous for decades — merguez, lamb brochettes, or the mixed-meat royale — in a room that fills loud and fast.
- Les Bains du MaraisHammam€€€ · 6 minA contemporary hammam off the rue des Blancs-Manteaux running a steam-and-sauna circuit on a fixed schedule of women-only, men-only and mixed sessions, with scrub and massage bookable on top.
- Lafayette AnticipationsContemporary art foundation€ · 7 minThe Galeries Lafayette foundation's commissioning space in a Marais building Rem Koolhaas hollowed out around a glass exhibition tower that physically moves on rails between floors. Free shows of newly produced work.
- The Cambridge Public HouseCocktail bar / pub€€€ · 8 minAn English-pub format crossed with serious mixology — ranked among the World's 50 Best Bars in 2025 — with craft beer, natural wine and British bar snacks behind a traditional pub front.
Where to stay near Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
- Experimental MaraisDesign hotel€€€ · 3 minThe Experimental Group's 2025 flagship on rue du Temple, where Tristan Auer answered the Marais's medieval bones with grand arches and stained glass. The restaurant Temple & Chapon sits under a cathedral-scale glass roof; a pool waits in the spa below.
- Hôtel Jules & JimBoutique hotel€€ · 5 minThree buildings knitted around two cobbled courtyards on a quiet Haut-Marais street, raised over a former precious-metals workshop. The courtyard bar with its outdoor fireplace has become a reason locals come in.
- Hôtel Suzie BlueBoutique hotel€€ · 9 minThirty-one rooms behind a ground-floor coffee bar, done by Dorothée Delaye in wood, fabric and handmade lamps; the bathrooms run small.
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The district · 3e
Haut Marais — The upper MaraisThe quieter, cooler half of the Marais — galleries, the Carnavalet and Picasso museums, the Marché des Enfants Rouges, and small designers on Rue de Bretagne. Medieval streets with a contemporary tenant list.
Best for: Design and gallery people who want the Marais without the worst of the crush.
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