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Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
A contemporary-art programme offers a destination to choose around the exhibition currently on view.
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Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme
Jewish art and history unfold inside the Hôtel de Saint-Aignan, a cultural anchor for a Marais afternoon.
Free entry
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Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
A free route into modern and contemporary art beside the Seine, with a separate programme of ticketed exhibitions.
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Cernuschi and Monceau: art, then air
Two neighbouring places for a compact afternoon: a free permanent collection, then a pause among the trees.
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L’art de vivre au siècle des Lumières
A guided introduction to the Cognacq-Jay collection, with a confirmed Saturday afternoon session on 26 September.
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Musée Jacquemart-André
An art collection inside a grand private residence, where the rooms are as much a part of the visit as the paintings.
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Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection
Contemporary art meets a circular historic building, with Tadao Ando’s concrete intervention reshaping the interior.
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Bouillon Racine
Art Nouveau interiors give this Left Bank restaurant a reason to linger beyond the plate.
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Musée du Luxembourg
Temporary exhibitions give the Luxembourg area a focused indoor art visit.
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Lafayette Anticipations
An exhibition space in the Marais brings contemporary art into a reworked urban building.
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Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
Animals, objects and contemporary art make an unusual conversation inside two historic Marais mansions.
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Maxim's
The Art Nouveau dining room gives this Rue Royale restaurant its central appeal.
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Mennour, Rue Saint-André-des-Arts
A contemporary-art gallery gives a Saint-Germain walk a focused exhibition stop.
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Fondation Louis Vuitton
Frank Gehry’s glass sails make the building a destination before you even reach the art inside.
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Halle Saint-Pierre
An art space at the foot of Montmartre makes a useful alternative to the hill's busier stops.
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Musée en Herbe
An art museum with a family-oriented approach makes an approachable central Paris visit.
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Musée de Cluny
Medieval art meets ancient stone in the Latin Quarter, with the Lady and the Unicorn as a reason to linger.
Free entry
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Fondation Pernod Ricard
A contemporary-art foundation offers an exhibition stop close to Saint-Lazare.
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Le Plateau, FRAC Île-de-France
Contemporary exhibitions offer an art stop near the streets of Belleville and Buttes-Chaumont.
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Simone Fattal: Des villes au fond d’un lac
Ceramics, paintings and collages across five decades of Simone Fattal’s work, in an autumn survey at the Musée d’Art Moderne.
Free entry
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Musée Cernuschi
Asian art at the edge of Parc Monceau. The permanent collection is free, with room for a museum visit and a little time outside.
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Two museums. No ticket required.
Two free permanent collections for an afternoon in Paris: choose city history in the Marais or art and a garden pause near the Champs-Élysées.
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Musée Guimet
Asian art at place d’Iéna, with enough detail in a single gallery to reward an unhurried afternoon.
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Kerry James Marshall: The Histories
Four decades of painting and Black representation at the Musée d’Art Moderne, with late openings on Thursdays.