Paris’s Centre Pompidou is closing—right here’s the place to go to as an alternative

The Centre Pompidou, Paris’s largest fashionable artwork museum, is closing its doorways in September 2025 for a five-year refurbishment. In the absence of this cultural icon, the place ought to modern-art-lovers get their fill? Thankfully, Paris’s modern artwork scene has a lot extra on provide, and this non permanent closure presents the proper alternative to find some lesser-known however equally enthralling creative spots.

Where higher to deal with Paris’s second-largest fashionable artwork assortment than within the Musée d’artwork Moderne de Paris, a grand, colonnaded Thirties constructing between the Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Élysées? The museum’s spectacular assortment of sculptures, work and images from the twentieth and twenty first centuries options main artists like Picasso, Dufy, Modigliani and Chagall in a mix of non permanent and everlasting reveals. The everlasting collections reference mainstream creative actions from the early twentieth century to the current day and home Dufy’s La Fée Électricité and the 2 well-known variations of Matisse’s La Danse.

Forget admiring canvases from afar, as a result of at L’Atelier des Lumières, you step contained in the work and let the artistry engulf you. There are 140 video projectors right here that beam iconic paintings by well-known artists onto the flooring, partitions and ceilings whereas a surround-sound music system transforms the house into an immersive, multi-sensory expertise. The cavernous venue began life in 1835 as considered one of Paris’s main foundries, creating a spread of things together with cast-iron elements for town’s rising railway, till its closure in 1929. In 2018, it reopened as a creative house devoted to bringing new, dynamic life to basic artworks. Exhibitions change steadily and vary from Van Gogh’s masterpieces to the storybook world of Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince.  

Leave Paris—and Europe—altogether to go to the creative realms of Africa, Asia, Oceana and the Americas on the Musée du Quai Branly. This museum’s everlasting assortment options 300,000 artworks, 700,000 pictures, 10,000 musical devices and 25,000 items of clothes from Indigenous communities around the globe to create a formidable portrait of non-European creative tradition. There are each everlasting and non permanent exhibitions which change each six months. The cultural range continues within the backyard the place its most well-known characteristic, the ‘green wall’, spans the complete facade of the constructing and options 150 plant varieties from Japan, China, the Americas and Central Europe.   

Gallerist Suzanne Tarasiève opened her major exhibition house in 2011 at a stylish spot in Le Marais. Despite her passing in 2022, the gallery continues to honour her goal of exhibiting each established and new artists. This concentrate on recent expertise means guests can see utterly new types and voices within the artwork world, creating a novel house during which artists inform their very own story, be it private, political or just artistic. Expect an array of work and sculptures, in addition to images, with the gallery representing three well-known photographers, Boris Mikhaïlov, Juergen Teller and Jürgen Klauke. Though the main target is on fashionable artwork, there’s no theme that unifies the objects on show apart from a unusual otherworldliness. Lovers of the weird can be happy to listen to they needn’t set their alarms to beat the crowds: this museum is fashionably late, with opening hours between 11am and 7pm, Tuesday to Saturday.

Fans of the Pompidou’s distinct structure can get their funky design repair on the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Designed by Frank Gehry—the architect behind the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA—the museum seems like shards of glass piercing the grass beneath. The aesthetic intrigue continues contained in the constructing because of a continually evolving physique of labor categorised into 4 broad subjects: Contemplative, Pop, Music & Sound and Expressionist. The Fondation Louis Vuitton goes additional than the standard remit of a gallery—not solely does it show vital paintings, nevertheless it additionally invitations artists to take part in cultural occasions, conferences and debates that provide recent views on the collections. Opening hours can differ dramatically relying on the day, so it’s price checking forward of your go to.