To ask for your help re history museums in Paris?

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Shamelessly harnessing the power of AIBU here. I’ve got overwhelmed by the online information.

What are the best, and more accessible, history-orientated museums in Paris? (So not the endless art galleries although I might pop into the Musée d'Orsay.)

I’d quite like to see the Shoah one. Is that accessible? Is there anything that specifically addresses the Velodrome round up, other than the memorial sculpture?

I’ve ruled out Versailles this time as too much of a schlep out of town, although their golf buggies and little train look good.

I will be going for work but have two days to myself midweek. In May.

This will be my first time in Paris since my 20s, my first time alone, and my first time with impaired mobility, but I don’t plan on using a wheelchair, just crutches. I’d maybe hire a mobility scooter if that made things easier and was easy to arrange.

Complicating factor is that I don’t know what accommodation work will book me yet or whether I’ll get much say in that beyond stipulating my accessibility requirements but let’s assume centralish.

I have been to the Shoah Memorial, apologies for not remembering how accessible or not it is. I was as you might understand concentrating more on finding the family names who are remembered there.

Their website may tell you.

The Louvre may be obvious, but on their website we downloaded a self guided tour where we viewed it as a royal residence, so we didn’t look around at paintings and artefacts but really got to see it as a palace.

Ah, sorry I didn’t read properly because I always get over excited to share this experience. It’s the busy nature of the Louvre that makes it not great I think.

@balalake

I have been to the Shoah Memorial, apologies for not remembering how accessible or not it is. I was as you might understand concentrating more on finding the family names who are remembered there.

Their website may tell you.

Hmm.

It seems quite common on the websites for French tourist attractions to either baldly state “Accessible to disabled people.” Which the site for the Shoah museum does. Or to say nothing at all.

So I thought I’d ask here before attempting to phone.

@StColumbofNavron

Ah, sorry I didn’t read properly because I always get over excited to share this experience. It’s the busy nature of the Louvre that makes it not great I think.

Yes the crowded spots are the worst, leaving aside steps and seating. Going to see David in Florence was the worst ever.

The Victor Hugo museum is lovely - and free. Situated on the Place de Vosges so in the heart of Le Marais.

Musée Carnavelet (also in the 3rd).

Finally, the Jewish Deportation Memorial is incredibly moving. It’s situated just behind Notre Dame, before you cross over onto the Isle St Louis.

VH in particular very accessible www.dailymotion.com/video/x6u9c36

the shoah one is well worth going to not huge but the silverware in there is awesome and the pere lachaise cemetry with the celebrity graves (Jim Morrison Oscar Wild ) is a good afternoon in good weather following the map to find the graves and easy to get to on the underground

Apologies; Jewish Deportation is down steps so probably not suitable.

Carnavalet is a beautiful building but has a lot of steps. I don't remember if there was a lift.

Musée de la Libération was very dry....lots of reading!

How about Musée de la Vie Romantique?

A few steps are manageable to me. Long flights not so much.

Thanks so much for all the suggestions. Most of these do sound appealing. I’m going to make a list and phone them in list of preference with my pernickety step-related French vocabulary brushed up first.

Musée Rodin is lovely on a sunny day: stunning sculpture in a fabulous mansion setting. Quite central too - just across the esplanade from Les Invalides.