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We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀

A Parisian experience

Launched thanks to a wildly successful crowdfunding and open since June 2024, the Cheese Museum on l’ÃŽle Saint-Louis close to Notre-Dame (and just a few minutes from our hotels) is a project by Paroles de Fromagers which also has two cheese shops in Paris (one of which is not far away on the Left Bank!)

If you want to learn all about the cheese Made in France (and there are over 1,000 of them!) and taste a few of them, this would be the place to go.

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We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
photos: JasonW

Paris has some pretty astonishing and out-of-the-ordinary museums: the Perfume Museum, the Post Office Museum, the Museum of Magic 🤔, and now the Cheese Museum, right in the heart of the city.

The aim of this new venture is to teach people about the history of French cheeses, the differences between the various regions’ production, the ancestral traditions that are maintained to this day, and how to appreciate tasting cheese.

Tours are available in English every day (actually, several times a day), so you’ll be sure to understand everything being explained!

After walking through the boutique at the entrance, which has loads of interesting cheeses and cheese-related items, the visit is accompanied by a guide who takes the small group (around 20 people) to the first exhibit – a map of France with numerous famous cheeses shown at the place they are produced.

Next, in a second room, there’s a presentation of the manufacturing techniques, many of which date from hundreds of years ago. It’s at this point that you’ll learn how the French word for cheese – fromage – comes from the word formage, which described the cheese being shaped (or ‘formed’). Interesting!

We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀

Some exhibits are adapted for children, with simplified texts and colourful images, and many if not all the written information is translated into English.

The visit itself is quite modern, with the guide using interactive screens and changes of lighting to pinpoint what is being explained, making the visit quite fun. There’s also an interactive explanation of the different ways of making cheeses, with projections that react to the touch. Very clever stuff.

We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
Saint Uguzo (also known as Lucio, San Lucio, Saint Uguzon, San Luguzzone, Sant’Uguzo, Sant’Uguccione, and Uguzo Uguzon) is the patron saint of Alpine herdsmen and dairymen, and cheesemakers everywhere.

You might also be surprised to learn that the museum makes its own cheese on-site! You’ll be introduced to the part of the room used for this, with explanations of the process and a presentation of their cheese at different stages of production.

And of course the visit ends with a tasting session of several different cheeses, with specific information about each one (and a bonus projection of the place of origin on the wall behind). Very enjoyable indeed!

We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀
We visit the Paris Cheese Museum! 🧀

We really enjoyed our visit to the Cheese Museum – educational, fun, interesting and tasty! This new museum near our hotels is well worth considering, especially as everything is available in English 😛

The Musée du Fromage (here) is open every day except Mondays from 10am-7pm

Visits in English or French to be booked online (obligatory) here

Admission: 20€ / 17€

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