The Musée National des Monuments Français is today a museum of plaster casts of French monuments

It now forms part of the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine.

he museum contains about 6,000 casts of sculptures of all periods including ancient Greece, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland, but with a strong emphasis on French sculptures of the Romanesque and Gothic periods. It also contains scale models of buildings, copies of architectural elements, sculpture, frescoes, and stained glass from French churches and châteaux, as well as a collection of about 200,000 photographs. Today the upper gallery serves as an exhibition space for modern and contemporary architectural models.