Maison de Gainsbourg
Paris’s newest museum is the former home of Chanson legend, Serge Gainsbourg (already a historical landmark, smothered in fan graffiti), now open to the public as a hybrid cultural spot called Maison Gainsbourg—part museum, part period home (looking pretty much as Gainsbourg left it when he died in 1991), part shop and part cafe. If you’re a music fan, this is the only place dedicated entirely to the songwriting icon and so may well be worth your time (though you’ll need to book ahead; at time of writing there was a month’s wait for museum tickets and more than three months for the house). Serge’s house takes about 30 minutes to get around, thanks to an immersive audioguide (performed by actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, Serge’s daughter), while the museum will take you through his works and life, showing lots of hitherto unseen material.
Paris’s newest museum is the former home of Chanson legend, Serge Gainsbourg (already a historical landmark, smothered in fan graffiti), now open to the public as a hybrid cultural spot called Maison Gainsbourg—part museum, part period home (looking pretty much as Gainsbourg left it when he died in 1991), part shop and part cafe. If you’re a music fan, this is the only place dedicated entirely to the songwriting icon and so may well be worth your time (though you’ll need to book ahead; at time of writing there was a month’s wait for museum tickets and more than three months for the house). Serge’s house takes about 30 minutes to get around, thanks to an immersive audioguide (performed by actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, Serge’s daughter), while the museum will take you through his works and life, showing lots of hitherto unseen material.
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