August 2027
August at a glance: 0 exhibitions opening, 8 closing, and 8 more on view across the city.
Grand Palais
Retrospective with the most Duchamp works shown in France since 1977, with major loans from MoMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, co-produced with the Centre Pompidou.

Musée des Arts et Métiers
An immersive look at how the Statue of Liberty was built in 1880s Paris, tracing the copper, iron and ingenuity, including Gustave Eiffel's internal frame, behind the Franco-American monument.
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM)
The first French monograph on the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski (1896-1993): about 80 works on the places that inspired him, with the National Museum in Warsaw.
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM)
A retrospective of about 200 works by Leonor Fini (1907-1996), the painter of sphinxes and witches often linked to Surrealism, organised with the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

Musée de l'Orangerie
With the Centre Pompidou closed, its works made in a single year, 1927 (paintings, sculpture, photography, design and film), mark the Orangerie's centenary.
Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris
Over 200 mostly unseen works on Paris and its environment, from the Paris Basin underground to the industrial city, with an interactive lab and contemporary artists.
Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
The Centre Pompidou hangs works by several generations of artists inside the museum's permanent route, setting formal echoes and critical reinterpretations of tradition against the collections.

Grand Palais
Inaugural show of the new Palais des enfants: a playful, sensory journey where artworks and science experiments play with light to spark the curiosity and wonder of very young visitors.
Grand Palais
180 emblematic works from the Fondation Bemberg, Toulouse, from Veronese and Cranach to Bonnard, shown as the taste of one collector (working title).
Jeu de Paume
Two large installations on the ground floor by the Franco-Colombian artist (2024 Aware Prize), including a new work co-produced with La Criée in Rennes.
Jeu de Paume
First large-scale French retrospective of the American photojournalist (d. 2017): five decades of reportage, from San Francisco punk to environmental stories and the conflicts of Russia's former satellites.
Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
The life of the singer and anti-apartheid activist, exiled from South Africa in 1959, who became a world star with Pata Pata and a voice for civil rights and Pan-Africanism.
Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
A display in the Boîte arts graphiques of the museum's Nepal photographs, from 19th-century royal portraits to contemporary photographer Prasiit Sthapit, on how images shaped the country's visibility.

Musée national Picasso-Paris
A site-specific installation by Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca in the chapel of the Hôtel Salé, where his "cubistoid" intersecting lines are painted directly onto the walls to form a new pictorial space.

Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris · Free
A free display in the 1977-to-today room on how Paris has changed since its first elected mayor, with recent acquisitions by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, JR and others.
Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
The hidden conservation work behind the collections: identifying materials, protecting objects, and the limits of restoration, shown with before-and-after objects and scientific images.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.