Part of the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles, it is housed in the Grande Écurie (Great Stable).

[1] In 1978, the Musée des Carrosses was moved from the Trianon to one of the galleries of the Grande Écurie, a site previously occupied by various government departments - Ministry of Defense, Departmental Archives, École des Beaux-Arts - and hard-fought for by the then Versailles curator, Gérald Van der Kemp [fr].

[3] Closed since 2006, after expansion and restoration work on the carriages, thanks to the patronage of Société Michelin, it reopened to the public on May 10, 2016 as the Galerie des Carrosses.

The museum possesses only a few vehicles dating from the Ancien Régime, including the berline of the Dauphin Louis de France (1781-1789),[3] litters and six sleds.

The carriages in the gallery are the creations of the Court's finest artists and luxury craftsmen: architects, carpenters, saddler-bodyworkers, mirror-makers, locksmiths, bronze-makers, chisellers, gilders, founders, painters, plate-makers, trimmers and embroiderers.