December 2025
December 2025 at a glance: 2 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 9 more were on view across the city.

Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris · Free
A free display within the permanent collections tracing two and a half centuries of Franco-American ties, from the 1776 War of Independence to the Statue of Liberty and the World Wars.

Musée des Arts et Métiers · Free
A monumental metallic horse sculpture from the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony, installed on the museum's forecourt with free public access.
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM) · Free · Past
A focused display of nine works from a recent donation spanning some sixty years of Max Wechsler's practice, from figuration to conceptual abstraction.

Crypte archéologique de l'île de la Cité · Past
Nearly 150 objects recovered from the Seine, from prehistory to today, shown amid the crypt's remains to trace Parisians' enduring relationship with their river.

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain · Past
Inaugural show of the new Palais-Royal venue: a sweeping survey of 40 years of the Fondation's collection, with 600 works by 100-plus artists across art, architecture, nature and technology.

Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris · Free
A free contemporary photography display within the permanent collections, gathering French and international artists' portraits of Parisians and their ever-changing faces.

Centre Pompidou
Nine themed sections trace how landscape art transformed across the 20th and 21st centuries, drawing on the Centre Pompidou's collections of painting, photography, cinema, design and new media. At West Bund Museum Project, Shanghai.

Centre Pompidou
For Centre Pompidou-Metz's 15th birthday, hundreds of collection works (Breton's studio wall, Duchamp's chess table) and pieces by Cattelan riff on the idea of 'Sunday' across 27 thematic rooms.

Centre Pompidou
At Centre Pompidou Malaga, a thematic journey through 20th- and 21st-century art from the Musee National d'Art Moderne collection, in six interconnected sections about how artists make us see differently.

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.

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.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.