Jardin du musée de Cluny, Medieval garden near Musée de Cluny, Paris, France.

The jardin du musée de Cluny is a flat, contemporary garden created in 2000 by landscape designers Éric Ossart and Arnaud Maurières, laid out beside the Hôtel de Cluny. A rectangular bed edged with low stone holds dense green plants and thin-leaved ground cover, with a straight channel of still water along its left side beside a walkway of rectangular stone slabs. The bed meets the base of the tall stone building, whose facade has pointed-arch windows and a rounded turret-like bay with three narrow vertical windows above a small pointed roof.

The site was once a major bathing complex from the 3rd century, built by Roman colonists and used by local boatmen. After Rome's decline, the land served different purposes over centuries before the museum arrived.

The garden design draws from medieval artwork in the museum, featuring symbolic plants like roses and herbs that held meaning in that era. Visitors walking through the space can discover how each plantings connects to the broader medieval worldview.

The garden is flat and level, laid out in beds beside the museum walls. It can be reached from Boulevard Saint-Germain at the corner with Boulevard Saint-Michel, from the corner with Rue Du Sommerard, or from 24 Rue Du Sommerard. Metro Line 10 stops at Cluny - La Sorbonne, and RER lines B and C at Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame.

The garden opened in 2000, designed by landscape architects Éric Ossart and Arnaud Maurières. Its main axis runs perpendicular to the lodging wing of the Hôtel de Cluny, the opposite of the medieval layout, whose small garden had an axis parallel to the building. Along the hotel walls stand portals salvaged from demolished Paris monuments, including that of the church of Saint-Benoît-le-Bétourné.