Exhibitions in Paris
Below, you'll find an incredibly handy list featuring the latest and most captivating exhibitions currently on display in Paris. Whether you're an art enthusiast, a tourist, or a local resident, we've gathered all the essential information for you, making it effortless for you to immerse yourself in the rich artistic diversity that Paris has to offer.
Dive into the realm of art and culture with our thoughtfully curated list.
Enjoy exploring and savoring the stunning exhibitions in this enchanting city!
Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection
Exhibition: Arte Povera
Until: January 20th, 2025 (3 days remaining.)Description:
Curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, an expert in Arte Povera, the exhibition traces the history of this movement from Italy to its global impact. See major works by artists like Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, and Michelangelo Pistoletto.
Carnavalet Museum
Exhibition: Paris 1793-1794: A Revolutionary Year
Until: February 16th, 2025 (30 days remaining.)Description:
The Musée Carnavalet - Histoire de Paris is showcasing a single year from the French Revolution, known as "Year II" of the Republican calendar.
Château de Chantilly
Exhibition: The Spahis in Chantilly
Until: March 31st, 2025 (73 days remaining.)Description:
The Spahis of the French army were units formed during the conquest of Algeria with native fighters and a few French leaders. These cavalrymen gained prestige and became symbolic figures of the African army, participating in all French wars and campaigns.
Exhibition: Contemporary Bibliophily
Until: March 10th, 2025 (52 days remaining.)Description:
The Cabinet des Livres showcases contemporary book collections, highlighting innovative engraving, photographic illustrations, and works by modern artists.
Exhibition: Louise D'orléans
Until: February 16th, 2025 (30 days remaining.)Description:
Princess Louise, the first daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, played a significant role in the European Romantic movement.
Château de Fontainebleau
Exhibition: Oudry, Painter de Courre: The Royal Hunts of Louis XV
Until: January 27th, 2025 (10 days remaining.)Description:
In autumn 2024, the Château de Fontainebleau will display Jean-Baptiste Oudry's work, known for depicting King Louis XV's hunts and animal portraits.
Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine
Exhibition: The Saga of Department Stores: From 1850 to the Present Day
Until: April 6th, 2025 (79 days remaining.)Description:
This exhibition features almost 500 original works from department store collections, highlighting architectural, economic, social, and artistic aspects.
Cité des sciences et de l'industrie
Exhibition: Dance
Until: June 28th, 2026 (527 days remaining.)Description:
Danser invites children aged 4 and over and accompanying adults of all ages to engage their bodies, both as actors and spectators.
Exhibition: Space mission
Until: December 31st, 2025 (348 days remaining.)Description:
Step into the shoes of a spaceman and experience a daydream for the duration of your visit. Structured in five sections, the exhibition invites you to explore, travel, transit, stay and question. It offers an overview of the research, technologies and thinking behind space missions. The discovery of the reality and complexity of this field allows us to glimpse the opportunities offered by space, but also its limits.
Exhibition: The Chauvet Cave: A Scientific Adventure
Until: May 11th, 2025 (114 days remaining.)Description:
Found 30 years ago, the Chauvet Cave holds ancient artifacts from the Paleolithic era. Step into a scientist's role to understand how they uncover these untouched relics.
Exhibition: Charlotte Charbonnel
Until: April 20th, 2025 (93 days remaining.)Description:
At the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, see an exhibit by Charlotte Charbonnel. The display ranges from simple structures to complex transformations of matter.
City of Paris Museum of Modern Art
Exhibition: The Atomic Age: Artists Put History to the Test
Until: February 9th, 2025 (23 days remaining.)Description:
The Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris presents an exhibition on the impact of the atom on 20th-century art, including the nuclear bomb's influence.
Disneyland Paris
Exhibition: Disney Tales of Magic
Until: May 31st, 2025 (134 days remaining.)Description:
Catch a special nighttime show at Disneyland® Park starting January 10, 2025. Watch a blend of classic tales and new stories come to life.
Fondation Louis Vuitton
Exhibition: Pop Forever: Tom Wesselmann & ...
Until: February 24th, 2025 (38 days remaining.)Description:
The Fondation presents _Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann & ..._ an exhibition dedicated to Pop Art from the 1960s onward.
Grand Palais Immersif
Exhibition: Pixels
Until: April 6th, 2025 (79 days remaining.)Description:
Le Grand Palais Immersif presents PIXELS, an exhibition featuring the digital art of Miguel Chevalier. Located in Bastille, this two-story exhibit lets you interact with dynamic, generative installations.
Hôtel de la Marine
Exhibition: Color Speaks All Languages: Selected Works from the Al Thani Collection
Until: October 5th, 2025 (261 days remaining.)Description:
Starting in autumn 2024, the Al Thani Collection at Hôtel de la Marine will show nearly 80 works focused on color from different civilizations. See artifacts from five continents, spanning from the Neolithic era to today, organized by six fundamental colors: black, white, red, yellow, blue, and green.
Louvre Museum
Exhibition: Guillon Lethière: Born in Guadeloupe
Until: February 13th, 2025 (27 days remaining.)Description:
Visit the Clark Art Institute and the Musée du Louvre to see an exhibition about an artist from Guadeloupe. Learn about his career in France and his work as a professor and advisor.
Musée Bourdelle
Exhibition: Body to Body
Until: February 2nd, 2025 (16 days remaining.)Description:
Antoine Bourdelle admired Auguste Rodin and worked for him carving marble for fifteen years.
Musée de l’Homme
Exhibition: Migration: A Human Odyssey
Until: June 8th, 2025 (142 days remaining.)Description:
Migration has influenced humanity throughout history and still does today. See its effect on all living things at a new exhibition at the Musée de l'Homme.
Musée de l’Orangerie
Exhibition: Heinz Berggruen: A Dealer and His Collection
Until: January 27th, 2025 (10 days remaining.)Description:
Heinz Berggruen built a notable collection of 20th-century artwork. This exhibition shows his connections with artists and the post-war art market in Paris.
Musée de Montmartre
Exhibition: Jacques Prévert: Dreamer of Images
Until: February 16th, 2025 (30 days remaining.)Description:
Learn about Jacques Prévert's life and work at the exhibition in Cité Véron, 18th arrondissement.
Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
Exhibition: The Collections Have Their Own Soundtrack
Until: September 17th, 2025 (243 days remaining.)Description:
The musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac now features a new sound trail in its permanent collections. Hear instrumental sounds, spoken voices, and natural soundscapes as you explore the arts and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.
Exhibition: Wayang Kulit
Until: March 23rd, 2025 (65 days remaining.)Description:
Watch a traditional wayang kulit shadow theater performance from Java. This Indonesian show tells stories from the Mahabharata and Ramayana.
Exhibition: Zombies: Death Is Not the End
Until: February 16th, 2025 (30 days remaining.)Description:
Learn about the origins and evolution of the zombie myth in Haiti. See how traditional African, Caribbean, and Catholic beliefs shaped the concept of zombies within voodoo culture.
Musée d’Orsay
Exhibition: Elmgreen & Dragset L'Addition
Until: February 2nd, 2025 (16 days remaining.)Description:
The great Scandinavian troublemakers of contemporary art, Elmgreen & Dragset, have been invited to place their poetic sculptures in dialogue with the Musée d'Orsay's iconic sculpture nave.
Exhibition: Caillebotte. Painting men
Until: January 19th, 2025 (2 days remaining.)Description:
The exhibition to be presented at the Musée d'Orsay in autumn 2024 takes as its subject the predilection of Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) for male figures and portraits of men, and aims to question the radical modernity of the artist's masterpieces through the prism of art history's new look at masculinity in the 19th century.
Musée Marmottan Monet
Exhibition: Trompe-L'œil: From 1520 to the Present Day
Until: March 2nd, 2025 (44 days remaining.)Description:
The exhibition showcases over seventy works from the 16th to the 21st century, featuring different forms of trompe-l'œil from various collections.
Musée national Picasso-Paris
Exhibition: Guillermo Kuitca: Chapel
Until: November 29th, 2026 (681 days remaining.)Description:
Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca has an installation in the chapel of the Hôtel Salé at the Musée National Picasso-Paris. The walls feature criss-cross lines, creating what Kuitca calls "cubistoid painting."
Exhibition: The Collection: Revoir Picasso
Until: March 12th, 2026 (419 days remaining.)Description:
On March 12, the Musée National Picasso-Paris will reopen its three-story collection to the public, following a year of celebrations and a standout exhibition honoring artist Sophie Calle.
Exhibition: Jackson Pollock: The Early Years 1934-1947
Until: January 19th, 2025 (2 days remaining.)Description:
From October 15, 2024, to January 19, 2025, the Musée national Picasso-Paris showcases a new exhibition dedicated to Jackson Pollock.
Musée Rodin
Exhibition: In.Visible Bodies
Until: March 2nd, 2025 (44 days remaining.)Description:
In autumn 2024, the Musée Rodin will display Auguste Rodin's Étude de robe de chambre pour Balzac. The exhibit will feature 19th-century fashion pieces and archives, highlighting Rodin's search for Balzac's form.
Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris
Exhibition: The Flowers of Yves Saint Laurent
Until: May 4th, 2025 (107 days remaining.)Description:
From September 20, 2024 through May 4, 2025, the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris presents The Flowers of Yves Saint Laurent.Designed by curators Olivier Saillard and Gaël Mamine, the exhibition follows an opening exhibition on view at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech from March 2, 2024 through January 5, 2025. For the first time, the two museums have joined forces to mount a joint exhibition devoted to a major theme in the designer's work.
Palais Galliera
Exhibition: Stephen Jones: Artist's Hats
Until: March 16th, 2025 (58 days remaining.)Description:
The exhibition at the Palais Galliera showcases Stephen Jones' hats, from his first collections in the 1980s to his latest designs.
Petit Palais
Exhibition: Ribera: Darkness and Light
Until: February 23rd, 2025 (37 days remaining.)Description:
The Petit Palais presents the first French retrospective dedicated to Jusepe de Ribera, a Spanish artist who lived in Italy.
Exhibition: Bruno Liljefors: Wild Sweden
Until: February 16th, 2025 (30 days remaining.)Description:
This exhibition features 100 works focused on Swedish nature and its wildlife, including paintings, drawings, and photographs.
ZooSafari de Thoiry
Exhibition: Thoiry Lumières Sauvages
Until: March 2nd, 2025 (44 days remaining.)Description:
The day ticket allows access to a night event featuring a park, botanical gardens, and a labyrinth illuminated by over 2,000 lanterns. Themes include aerial, underwater, subterranean, and space scenes inspired by Jules Verne's "Voyages Extraordinaires."