Seminars, conferences, product launches, business dinners, cocktail parties, gala dinners, tastings, filming, fashion shows and weddings can be organized here for 25 to 200 guests. Le M. Musée du Vin occupies more than 1,000 m² of vaulted cellars at 5 Square Charles Dickens, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, close to the Eiffel Tower. It combines a wine museum, a restaurant, a tasting school and a jazz stage, and each part can be booked for an event.
Seminars and company events
Companies can hire one cellar or the whole venue. The team lists seminars, meetings, conferences, team building, masterclasses, guided tastings, afterworks and product launches among the formats it runs. Shared equipment includes Wi-Fi, video projection, stage lighting, a sound system and a stage. The largest cellar works for a talk followed by dinner, and the smaller vaults suit breakout groups or a tasting.
For a short leadership meeting, L'Appartement du M. offers a different setting: a 90 m² apartment with a meeting room, a lounge, an equipped kitchen, a bar and an adjoining room, set up for 14 at the table or 25 standing, with a projector and a connected TV.
The venue's tasting courses, run for about 30 years, can be turned into a team activity, and a guided visit of the museum fits a cocktail. The team can also book professional musicians, from a jazz duo to a live concert in the cellars.
Weddings and receptions
The venue lists weddings and private parties among its events, with the same spaces and catering as for companies. The Cellier seats 80 for dinner and the full venue reaches 200 guests standing.
Rooms and capacities
Cellier A, Le Cellier, is the main room: a 160 m² vaulted cellar from the 15th century, for 120 standing or 80 at dinner, equipped with a screen, a projector, a wireless microphone, a sound system and a stage. Cellier B, Le Bar Marilyn, covers 65 m² with low vaults and a bar, for 50 standing or 40 seated. Cellier C, La Vinothèque, measures 80 m² for 70 standing or 55 seated and suits tastings and private dinners. Cellier D, the exhibition room, covers 40 m² inside the museum route, for 30 standing or 26 seated, among the collection. L'Appartement du M. adds 90 m² for small groups.
Catering
Catering is handled in-house by chef Valentin Néraudeau and his team, who cook bistro-style sharing dishes built on French regional produce. Each event menu is written to order and paired with a list of more than 200 wines. Formats include seated lunches and dinners, standing dinners and cocktails. The restaurant opens for lunch from Tuesday to Saturday and on Friday evening, when jazz concerts are held in the cellars.
History and setting
The galleries were the wine cellars of the convent of the Minimes of Passy, used by the friars from the 16th to the 18th century and abandoned during the French Revolution. They came back into use after 1950, served for a time as cellars for the Eiffel Tower restaurant, and became the wine museum in 1984, created by the Conseil des Échansons de France, a wine fraternity that still runs it. The collection holds more than 2,200 objects on vine growing and wine. The museum is open from Tuesday to Saturday.
Getting there
The address is 5 Square Charles Dickens, 75016 Paris, near the Eiffel Tower and the Passy district. Passy metro station on line 6 is the closest stop. Paris-Orly and Paris-Charles de Gaulle airports are reached by public transport or taxi.
