World's smallest museum - Musée-Placard d'Erik Satie

It was the long-time home home of the great 20th-century composer.

Located at 6, rue Cortot, 75018 Paris, France

Telephone: 42 78 15 18

Metro: Lamarck-Calaincourt

Bus: Montmartrobus

Hours: By appointment only

Admission: Free

Sonia Rykiel said it's one of her two favorite museums in the world.

The other?

Musée de la Vie Romantique, also in Paris.

But I digress.

The private Satie museum contains paintings, manuscripts, documents, scale models, and objects.

FunFact: after Satie died, his friends went to this tiny apartment and found it jam-packed with thousands of umbrellas of all shapes and sizes, most unused.

If you don't have Satie's Gymnopédies and other short works for piano, you could do a lot worse with your $6.98 (at amazon: put B00004SYFP in the classical music search box).

[via Sonia Rykiel]

Yes, THE Sonia Rykiel.