The Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature is one of Paris's most surprising museums: a collection of hunting art and natural history objects staged with extraordinary wit and visual intelligence in two connected Marais mansions. The subject sounds unpromising, but the curatorship transforms it — taxidermy mounts are lit like portraits, hunting weapons are displayed as sculpture, and rooms shift between reverence and irony without ever becoming didactic.
The collection spans European hunting art from the 16th century onward, including works by Rubens, Rembrandt, and Brueghel, alongside contemporary pieces that engage with the museum's themes. It is quiet, unusual, and genuinely strange in a way that most Paris museums are not. Free on the first Sunday of the month.