Step away from the Games: five unsung Paris museums to visit during the Olympics

These quirky cultural gems are ideal for discovering a different side of the French capital this summer

This museum offers a tour of France’s most sensational buildings, from the middle ages to the present. It sits across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower in the eastern wing of the Chaillot Palace, which was built for the International Exhibition of 1937 and features full-scale casts of architectural features, copies of murals and frescoes and models of buildings.