THE MÉTRO
The easiest, fastest and cheapest way to get around Paris is by métro. The apartment at 7 rue Volta is 20 meters from the Arts et Métiers station. This station services line 3 and line 11.

A one-way ticket on the métro costs 1.50 euros; a book of 10 tickets (un carnet) is 10.50 euros. Daily passes (Paris Visite) and weekly passes (Carte Orange) are also available. For more information, visit RATP's site.

NEARBY ATTRACTIONS
— most within a 20-minute walk

Centre Georges Pompidou Paris's museum of modern art

Archives Nationales - one of the more beautiful buildings in the Marais, home to many of France's most prized documents

Musée Picasso - works of Pablo Picasso housed in a beautiful 18th-century hotel

Musée Serrurerie - museum of locksmithing

Musée Cognacq-Jay - 18th-century collections

Musée Carnavalet - traces the history of Paris from its origin to the present

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaisme - devoted to the history of Judiasm

Musée de la Poupee - permanent collection of French dolls

Musée de Arts et Métiers - collection of more than
80,000 objects is a shrine to the pioneers of the industrial revolution

Musée Victor Hugo- learn more about the author
by perusing the house in which he lived for 16 years