Jim Morrison's Grave at Père Lachaise

Jim Morrison is buried in division 6 of Père Lachaise, in eastern Paris, and visiting is free during the cemetery’s opening hours. The grave is low on the hill, about 340 metres in a straight line from the main gate on Boulevard de Ménilmontant, but tucked in among older tombs, so most people need a map or a guide to find it. What you will see is a plain headstone, usually behind a barrier, with other visitors around it.

How to find the grave

Use the main gate (28 ter boulevard de Ménilmontant, Métro Philippe Auguste or Père Lachaise). Morrison lies in division 6, south-east of the entrance; the City of Paris’s free plan of the most requested graves marks it, and our famous-graves map shows it with the other well-known tombs. Chopin (division 11) and the tomb of Héloïse and Abélard (division 7, under restoration until August 2027) are a few minutes away, so the three make an easy first loop.

Opening hours are 8:00 to 18:00 on weekdays from 16 March to 5 November (8:30 on Saturdays, 9:00 on Sundays and holidays), closing at 17:30 from 6 November to 15 March. Nobody is let in during the last fifteen minutes. The hours and entrances guide has the rest.

What the grave looks like now

The headstone is modest, and it has no bust. A bronze bust by the Croatian sculptor Mladen Mikulin was placed on the grave in 1981, on the tenth anniversary of Morrison’s death. Visitors covered it in graffiti and chipped bits off it as souvenirs, and on 9 May 1988 the whole sculpture disappeared. It stayed missing for 37 years: in May 2025 Paris police announced that they had found it, by chance, during a search ordered by an examining magistrate.

One habit has stuck, literally: fans press chewing gum onto a tree near the grave as a tribute. You do not need to add to it.

Why Morrison is buried in Paris

He died there. The singer of the Doors had gone to Paris with his long-time girlfriend, Pamela Courson, and on 3 July 1971 he was found dead in their apartment. He was 27. The official cause was heart failure; no autopsy was carried out, and accounts of his death have disagreed ever since. He was buried at Père Lachaise four days later. Fifty years on, in July 2021, fans still gathered at the grave to mark the date.

The rules at the grave

Père Lachaise is a working cemetery, with funerals every day, and the families of the people buried around Morrison still visit their graves. The city’s rules apply here as everywhere:

• no alcohol and no picnics;
• no music, speakers or instruments;
• no sitting, standing or climbing on any tomb, and no writing on them;
• no dogs, even on a lead, and no bicycles or scooters, even pushed.

Photographs are fine. If a ceremony is under way nearby, wait.

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Tours that stop at Morrison’s grave

Almost every guided walk of the cemetery includes him, because almost every visitor asks. Three to consider (prices and ratings as listed in October 2026):

Prices, ratings and review counts as listed in October 2026; operators change prices, so treat them as the shape of the market, not a quote.

Going on your own

It works well if Morrison is the main reason you came: in at the main gate, division 6, back out, under an hour. If you want Wilde, Piaf and Chopin too, allow three hours or take a tour; the famous-graves guide has a route that covers them all, and the tour comparison sets the seven guided walks side by side.