Castle Tour

Ecouen Castle - National Renaissance Museum

The Château d'Ecouen, home to the National Museum of the Renaissance, invites you to discover one of the most important monuments of the Renaissance period in France.

Things to discover during your visit:

The Château d'Écouen, located twenty kilometers north of Paris, overlooks the vast plain of the Pays de France where it meets the Chantilly forest. Today, it houses the exceptional collections of the National Museum of the Renaissance, providing them with a truly exceptional setting.

The castle allows you to explore a place rich in history, where prestigious owners of the most illustrious House of France, the Montmorency family, mingle.

Owned by a great Renaissance nobleman, Anne de Montmorency, Constable, Duke and Peer of France, Marshal and then Grand Master of France, it served five kings. This extremely powerful man, who symbolized the French Renaissance, was a close friend of Kings Francis I and Henry II. The Château d'Écouen is not just any residence: its very stones bear witness to the ambitions and successes of a powerful man who was also a patron of the arts and a passionate aesthete of art and heritage, with fascinating collections devoted to the Renaissance.

Visiting hours:

• Every day except Tuesday , January 1st and December 25th. From 9:30 am to 12:45 pm and 2:00 pm to 5:15 pm, and until 5:45 pm from April 16th to September 30th.
• For group visits (10 people or more), booking a self-guided tour or guided lecture is mandatory.

2025 Prices:

• Due to the restoration work on the courtyard facades, disruptions to the visitor circuit are to be expected: closure of some rooms, storage of some fragile works including the Tapestry of David and Bathsheba.
• The reduced entry ticket price (€3.50) is currently applied.