- Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 10am–6:30pm
- Last entry: 5:45pm
- Rooms close: 6:15pm
- Closed: Mondays, May 1, January 1, and December 25
- Official source: Check musee-rodin.fr before visiting; the garden closes 30 minutes before the museum

The Kiss is included with all Rodin Museum tickets, and no separate ticket is needed; it matters because this marble group is Rodin’s clearest study of desire, movement, and polished form. You’ll find it inside Hôtel Biron rather than in the sculpture garden, usually reached after the first run of interior galleries. Choose a skip-the-line or guided visit so you reach it without queue fatigue and have enough time to read its details properly.
For most visitors, the surprise is that The Kiss began as a detail for The Gates of Hell before Rodin separated it into a standalone marble in the 1880s. It started as Dante’s Paolo and Francesca, then evolved from literary episode into one of modern sculpture’s defining images of desire. Today it remains a key work inside the Rodin Museum, shaping how visitors understand Rodin’s treatment of passion, narrative, and unfinished form.
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Skip-the-line entry to the Rodin Museum
Full access to Hôtel Biron
Full access to the gardens
Official audio guide in French, English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin, or Korean (as per option selected)
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Rodin Museum
Skip-the-line entry to the Rodin museum
Access to sculptures garden
Orsay Museum
Entry to Orsay Museum
Access to permanent exhibitions
Audio guide in 14 languages

Rodin Museum & Sculptures Garden What to bring
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Seine River 1-Hour Sightseeing Cruise What to bring
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Rodin Museum
Skip-the-line entry into Rodin Museum
Access to Sculptures Garden
Seine River Sightseeing Cruise
1-hour Bateaux Parisiens Seine River cruise (route here)
Audio guide in 14 languages
Choose your departure time (cruises depart every hour)

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Les Invalides
Standard entry to Les Invalides
Access to the Dome Church with Napoleon’s tomb and Army Museum
Access to the Museum of Relief Maps and the Museum of the Order of Liberation
Access to the Cour d'Honneur (Artillery Collections) and Saint-Louis des Invalides Cathedral
Rodin Museum
Skip-the-line entry to Rodin Museum
Access to Sculptures Garden
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