The Army Museum

The Musée de l’Armée brings together France’s military past in seven main spaces inside Les Invalides, in Paris’s 7th arrondissement. Created in 1905 through the merger of the Musée d’Artillerie and the Musée Historique de l’Armée, it traces a deliberate storyline—from antiquity through the 20th century—across collections organised on a chronological visit. That timeline has deep roots: the artillery museum began in 1795 after the French Revolution, expanded under Napoleon, and moved into the Hôtel des Invalides in 1871, just after the Franco-Prussian War and the proclamation of the Third Republic. The museum’s scale is substantial: it holds 500,000 artifacts—including weapons, armour, artillery, uniforms, emblems and paintings—displayed across 12,000 m² of exhibition space. …

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