(Last Update: 28.01.2025) If you, like me, spent your childhood reading Jules Verne's books and enriched your imagination with the adventures in those books, then this article is for you. This time, we headed somewhere just outside of Paris. AmiensWe are going to and located in Amiens Jules Verne's HouseWe are traveling around together.
Amiens (asian) Approximately 120 km north of Paris a separate city. A detailed article about Amiens available at this link But to give very brief information, this is a separate city and if you are a metropolitan person like me, it is actually a very small place, but this place has its own characteristics. The most important feature for us is, of course, Jules Verne's House, which we will get to know in this article.

On a Saturday morning in March 2017, while we were at the breakfast table at home and talking among ourselves about "what should we do today?", we suddenly thought of seeing Jules Verne's house. It has been on our minds for a long time and we were waiting for the time when the weather was nice. We did a little research on the internet (of course, there is no website like Pariste.Net where we can find detailed Turkish content :)) While we were wondering whether to go by train or by car, the breakfast table was cleared within half an hour, we got dressed, went down to the garage and were already on our way.
I don't know if this is a priority place for you, but Giverny, Rouen, Deauville & Trouville, Honfleur ve Etretat If you haven't seen places like these, maybe you can leave them until later, but if Jules Verne's House is important to you, then of course it should be at the top of the list of places to visit around Paris; especially 15 Days in Paris If you are going to spend... That day, we took a very enjoyable two-hour journey off the highway. AmiensWe arrived at , and drove to an empty lot, where we found it down the street from Jules Verne's house. we parked for free.

Jules Verne is in this house 1882-1900 full between years lived 18 years And he was a tenant in this house. In fact, aside from the fact that Jules Verne lived in this house, visiting the house itself is also special. Because it has a qualified architecture and its interior decoration is very beautiful. As I learned later, the interior of the house does not completely reflect the way it was when Jules Verne lived, and as you visit, you understand this better when you see that many rooms are decorated according to the concept of Jules Verne's novels.
Jules Verne's House is open every day except public holidays and Tuesdays. It is closed during lunch breaks and visiting hours vary depending on the season.. You can access ticket prices and other current information from the official website link at the end of the article.

When you buy your ticket at the entrance of the museum, they give you a folder introducing the museum if you wish. It is a bit troublesome to travel around with that big folder, but it is useful to take it with you so that you can better interpret what you see while visiting Jules Verne's House. Of course, the travel route may change when you visit, but I will try to explain the house through our own travel route. Therefore, the route may be different while you are traveling, and some sections may be closed due to restoration. What I said actually applies to all articles on Pariste.Net.
First you come to a wonderful glass veranda. Both the decoration of this place and the brightness overlooking the courtyard are peaceful. Then you reach the first hall overlooking the street, the dining hall. This dining hall is - as far as I know - the section where the items from Jules Verne's period are best preserved and displayed exactly as they are. It's impressive, even if it seems a bit gloomy to me. From here you go to the side halls.

When this floor is quickly finished, you think your trip is over, but when you climb the circular staircase to the upper floor, your tour starts to become more colorful. Many books lined up on the bookshelves and many documents belonging to Jules Verne, such as his university diploma, are waiting for you in this section. As you pass through the side halls from here, you first reach a corridor and then a large hall.
While visiting Jules Verne's House, you think about Jules Verne's life in the late 19th century, and about your life when you read Jules Verne in your childhood. The first things that come to my mind among the books I read are: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, Two Years School Vacation ve Lighthouse at the End of the World It was. Golden Books It was from the series - I never forget it - those wonderful books with thick bindings and illustrated covers that flow like water and drag people from dream to dream... Now, of course, it is a very different feeling to be in the house where many of these books were written. Especially, it was a pleasure to receive the French version of Around the World in 80 Days, with its volume designed as a replica of Jules Verne's original; It is a pleasure to read…

While visiting Jules Verne's House, I noticed most of the carpets on the floor. Turkish carpet You realize that it is happening and people like it very much. While some of them are carpets with kilim patterns, while others are carpets that reflect the patterns of our mothers' period, at that moment it is not the house of a famous writer. neighbor Aunt Türkan's house You feel like you are traveling :)
There is a large desk on one side of the large hall upstairs and a large world map on the floor on the other. This map is a later work showing the route of Around the World in 80 Days. When a person sees this map, he suddenly becomes a child, lies down on the ground and gets lost in that world 😉

You shouldn't miss the small room on the side, because this is the place. Jules Verne's study. "Why would someone choose to write in such a small room in such a big house?” You can't help but think. Moreover, the room also has a single bed. Person, So, while Jules Verne was writing, he sometimes continued his work without leaving the room. he predicts.
Nowadays, instead of working at a writing desk, we continue to write with our laptop in every corner of the house, outside in cafes, on the plane, on the train, in other words, everywhere; At least that's what I do 😉 Some people can mostly write in quiet places; However, I am not like that. Although I value silence while reading a book, when I write, having stimuli from the environment stimulates my enthusiasm for writing. Anyway, here we are A Week in ParisWe are a modest blogger who wrote, and before us stands the great Jules Verne; Let's know our place and continue touring the house :)

If you go back to the hall where the circular staircase is and go up to the upper floor, you reach the attic furnished in a ship decor. When you move to the side from here, you reach the section where the attic is located, which is a very dark and very differently decorated space. This place reminded me of the day I climbed into the attic when we were moving from our house with a garden in Koşuyolu as a child. That French book with a red cover that I found there and still keep...
Then, of course, I realize that I am in the attic of Jules Verne's House, and when I see the treasure chest lying in a corner on the floor, I think that Jules Verne wrote "Treasure Island", but it turns out that it was Robert Louis Stevenson who wrote that book :) They can mix them together and thanks to this kind of work, the pieces fall into place…

After finishing this dark attic, you reach the door at the back. This door takes you to the stairs with the tower that stands out at first glance from the outside, and you go down these stairs in a spiral spiral. As you go down, you see models showing snapshots from the book “A Trip to the Moon” in the niche on the wall.
The details, costumes and lifestyles of those models give one an idea of the period in which Jules Verne lived and how important his future fictions were at that time. We all know that many of the projects that Jules Verne dreamed of during his lifetime and described in his novels inspired many inventors in the development of technology and new inventions. You realize once again how important the world of free thought is for producing science and making new inventions.

When you go down the spiral stairs to the bottom floor, you reach the glass veranda where your tour first started and thus you complete your tour. In fact There is another Jules Verne Museum in France and this museum is located in Nantes, the birthplace of Jules Verne..
I think you will finish visiting Jules Verne's House in about half an hour to an hour. Afterwards too Amiens The streets are waiting for you.
Wishing you free and beautiful days full of art, within the limitless lines of your imagination.
Pleasant trips, pleasant discoveries.
Web address: amiens.fr/Vivre-a-Amiens/Culture-Patrimoine/Etablissements-culturels/Maison-de-Jules-Verne
Address: 2 Rue Charles Dubois, 80000 Amiens
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8 Comments
Did you put the text using Google Translate? It is written in terrible English, I wish you had put it in Turkish.
Depending on your phone's operating language, Google Translate translates into 10 different languages. To read the original Turkish text, simply select Turkish from the menu. Thank you.
As a university student who has not yet had the honor of going abroad, we feel like we are there too, thanks to people like you. Travel and write all the time, okay? :)
Hello,
First of all, thank you very much. I hope that by the time you reach my age, you will have seen more places and made more beautiful memories than me.
In the meantime, appreciate the best age of your life :)
Happy Days.
Sir, make these writer's house visits frequently, it is wonderful. Share it as a video on your YouTube page too :) best regards and love :)
I will continue to do it as much as I can, as long as I have time. Thank you very, very much.
Love, greetings.
Milliyet newspaper used to give one of Jules Verne's books as a gift every day during the summer holidays. That was when I first met Jules Verne. 20.000 leagues under the sea, Mysterious Island, Captain Grant's children, etc. These were always like sequels related to each other.
Who can forget Nemo? It is even mentioned in the last movie of Back to the Future. Crazy Dr. Brown named one of his two children Jules and the other Verne.
Thank you for your work and efforts, Mr. Ahmet.
These beautiful memories, these fine details, unite us and bring us together under the title of Paris. You don't know how valuable it is for me to be read by beautiful people who value memories and care about details. It is an indescribable feeling to see that all my efforts were not in vain. Thank you very much for your nice thoughts and thoughtful comment.
With love.