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Le musée d'Orsay fête ses 40 ans avec un week-end gratuit les 5 et 6 décembre 2026

MUSÉE D'ORSAY
Les 5 et 6 décembre 2026

Le musée d'Orsay fête ses 40 ans le samedi 5 et le dimanche 6 décembre 2026 avec un week-end entièrement gratuit et ouvert à tous. Des concerts dans la nef, des rencontres avec Sophie Calle et Catherine Meurisse, des ateliers dans les collections et cinq sérigraphies signées par des grands noms de la bande dessinée composent le programme de cet anniversaire.

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Exhibition Brussels 1900, Capital of Art Nouveau, at the Petit Palais

PETIT PALAIS
From November 10, 2026 to April 25, 2027

The exhibition Brussels 1900, capital of Art Nouveau, is being held at the Petit Palais from November 10, 2026 to April 25, 2027. More than two hundred and fifty works show a city that worked without hierarchy between the arts, from Khnopff to the models of Horta, thanks to the open reserves of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts.

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Exposition Une brève histoire du même à la Collection Lambert, Avignon

COLLECTION LAMBERT
Du 6 novembre 2026 au 28 février 2027

La Collection Lambert ouvre « Une brève histoire du même », à Avignon, du 6 novembre 2026 au 28 février 2027. Le commissaire portugais Bruno Marchand, directeur adjoint du MAAT de Lisbonne, signe la première des résidences curatoriales européennes du musée et déroule en six chapitres un parcours consacré à la répétition, à la variation et à la différence.

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Le 11 novembre à Notre-Dame-de-Lorette : flambeaux, concert et festival de cinéma

SOUCHEZ
Du 11 au 15 novembre 2026

Le Mémorial 14-18 Notre-Dame-de-Lorette ouvre gratuitement sa colline le mercredi 11 novembre 2026, à Souchez, pour une journée de commémorations qui s'achève par une montée aux flambeaux et un concert symphonique sous l'Anneau de la mémoire. Deux jours plus tard, le festival Images de guerre, guerre des images prend le relais pour sa troisième édition, entièrement gratuite.

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The top museums closed on November 11th in Paris

PARIS
Wednesday, November 11, 2026

November 11, 2026, falls on a Wednesday, and almost all Parisian museums are open as usual that day. Six are exceptions, from the Petit Palais to the Cité de l’architecture, and the Arc de Triomphe is reserving its morning for the Armistice Day ceremony. Here is the verified list, location by location, before you travel across the city for nothing.

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FEAR exhibition at the Ropac Pantin gallery: our photos and our review

THADDAEUS ROPAC PANTIN
From November 7, 2026 to February 6, 2027

From November 7, 2026 to February 6, 2027, Thaddaeus Ropac Pantin brings together, under the title FEAR, Art in the Age of Anxiety, artists united by fear, from Joseph Beuys to Ron Mueck.

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The Great Greenhouses of Pantin are open: our photos and our review

THE GREAT GREENS OF PANTIN
From November 6 to 8, 2026

The Grandes Serres de Pantin officially open to the public from November 6 to 8, 2026, on the banks of the Ourcq canal. The former Pouchard tube factory becomes an 11,000 m² public hall which three days of concerts, workshops and tastings inaugurate, with Baume Chérie, the first monograph of the place entrusted to Idir Davaine.

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Salon Réalités Nouvelles: our winners and our favorites at Césure

GAP BREAK
November 5-8, 2026

The Salon Réalités Nouvelles celebrates its 80th edition from November 5th to 8th, 2026 in Césure, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris (75005), bringing together one hundred and twenty artists around the theme of abstraction, each presenting one work. Arts in the City is awarding its Critics' Prize for the first time, and has bestowed it upon three of the artists: Fabrice Ainaut, Romain Laveille, and Joanick Bécourt.

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Reflection exhibition at the Hélène Bailly gallery in Marcilhac

Hélène Bailly Marcilhac
From October 19 to December 19, 2026

The Hélène Bailly Marcilhac gallery is dedicating its exhibition "Reflection," focusing on the motif of reflection, to the theme of reflection, from October 19 to December 19, 2026, at 71 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Admission is free, and the selection spans from Impressionism to Surrealism and contemporary art, including works by Signac, Picasso, and Miró.

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Christmas at Léonard's: the garden comes to the table at the Château du Clos Lucé

Château du Clos Lucé
From November 28, 2026 to January 3, 2027

From November 28, 2026 to January 3, 2027, the Château du Clos Lucé, in Amboise, celebrates Christmas at Leonardo da Vinci's under the sign of Renaissance gardens: flowers, fruits and foliage take over the rooms and festive tables, between shows, theatrical tours and family workshops.

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Christmas in Fairyland 2026 at the Royal Fortress of Chinon

ROYAL FORTRESS OF CHINON
From November 28, 2026 to January 3, 2027

From November 28, 2026 to January 3, 2027, the royal fortress of Chinon, in Indre-et-Loire, is transformed into a land of fairies for Christmas, with enchanted scenes, magical forest decorations and photographs of the famous Cottingley fairies.

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The King's Journey 2026 at the Palace of Versailles: Marie Antoinette celebrates Christmas

Palace of Versailles
From December 12, 2026 to January 2, 2027

From December 12, 2026 to January 2, 2027, "The King's Journey" at the Palace of Versailles celebrates Marie Antoinette, the queen of fashion. This nighttime spectacular tour takes visitors through the State Apartments to the Hall of Mirrors, before the appearance of a baroque Santa Claus in the Hall of Battles.

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Winter tales at the Château de La Roche-Guyon: a first Christmas

CHÂTEAU DE LA ROCHE-GUYON
From December 5, 2026 to January 3, 2027

From December 5, 2026 to January 3, 2027, the Château de La Roche-Guyon, in Val-d'Oise, opens for the first time in its history during the holidays with Winter Tales, a poetic Christmas made of lights, sound creation and an unpublished children's album by Elisa Martin.

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Christmas at the Château de Fontainebleau 2026: The Table of Kings

Château de Fontainebleau
From December 20, 2026 to January 2, 2027

From December 20, 2026 to January 2, 2027, the Château de Fontainebleau, in Seine-et-Marne, celebrates Christmas in memory of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, with a state table set in the Guards' Room, a family show and a Christmas concert dedicated to Monteverdi.

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Christmas at Fontevraud 2026: art, nativity scene and concerts at the royal abbey

Royal Abbey of Fontevraud
From November 28, 2026 to March 7, 2027

From November 28, 2026 to March 7, 2027, the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud, in Maine-et-Loire, experiences an artists' Christmas, including a festive wax table by Mona Oren, a hand-crafted Neapolitan nativity scene, polyphonies by Les Arts Florissants, and snow mapping on the abbey's facade.

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Christmas at Cheverny Castle 2026: A grand Christmas in the heart of the Loire Valley

CHÂTEAU DE CHEVERNY
From November 28, 2026 to January 10, 2027

From November 28, 2026 to January 10, 2027, the Château de Cheverny, in Loir-et-Cher, is going all out for Christmas with a thirty-meter Christmas tree, an original mapping on its facade and a first Christmas village, in the estate which Hergé used as the model for Moulinsart.

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The Great Christmas 2026 at the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte

VAUX-LE-VICOMTE CASTLE
From November 14, 2026 to January 3, 2027

From November 14, 2026 to January 3, 2027, the Grand Christmas at the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, in Seine-et-Marne, is touring the world. Salons transformed into stopovers, automata, an animated facade with projections and a 420 m² ice rink in Le Nôtre's gardens make up one of the most popular Christmases in Île-de-France.

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Christmas at the Château de Chambord 2026: Gargantua's Gourmet Christmas

CHAMBORD CASTLE
From November 28, 2026 to January 17, 2027

From November 28, 2026 to January 17, 2027, the Château de Chambord celebrates Christmas under the sign of Gargantua. Gourmet decorations, the exhibition "The Feasts of Chambord" and a new show "Gargantua's Christmas Eve" make the royal estate the most indulgent Christmas destination in the Loire Valley.

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Christmas 2026: 16 magical castles to visit for the holidays

Castles of the Loire and Île-de-France regions
From November 14, 2026 to March 7, 2027

This year, the castles are sitting down to a feast. Gargantua is feasting at Chambord, Cheverny is setting up its tables even on its facade, Fontevraud is sculpting a wax banquet and Versailles is reliving the splendor of Marie-Antoinette… From November 14, 2026 to March 7, 2027, from the Loire to the Île-de-France, thirteen castles and royal abbeys are celebrating Christmas with tales, lights and wonders.

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The Tender Monsters exhibition at the PM Gallery

PM GALLERY
From November 5 to December 24, 2026

The PM Gallery brings together seven artists around the theme of the deformed creature, from November 5 to December 24, 2026, at 40 rue de Seine. Salvador Dalí is featured alongside contemporary painters and sculptors, and admission is free.

Butterfly exhibition at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon

Goliath's Bird-of-war, Ornithoptera goliath atlas, Papua New Guinea © Musée des Confluences - Pierre-Olivier Deschamps/Agence VU' How long does it take for a caterpillar to become something other than itself? The Musée des Confluences takes this…

Bonnard Exhibition, The Collections, at the Bonnard Museum in Le Cannet

A painter who spent his life painting the same dining room, the same bathtub, the same woman, and who never painted the same picture twice. Pierre Bonnard returns to Le Cannet, to the house-museum dedicated to him, with a unique exhibition drawn from…

The Frac Auvergne opens the Halle aux Blés in Clermont-Ferrand with "The Eternal Molts"

Three hundred and fifty square meters of exhibition space yesterday, more than nine hundred today. The Frac Auvergne has moved into an 18th-century grain market and is opening its doors wide. The building was constructed between 1762 and 1771 by…

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Roman art from the Louvre, a world of images

Museum of Roman Civilization
From June 11, 2026 to January 10, 2027

In Nîmes, the Roman world is not a memory: it is a geography. The Maison Carrée is intact, the Arena still welcomes spectators.

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Surreal Women Exhibition at the Nantes Museum of Fine Arts

NANTES MUSEUM OF ARTS
From November 20, 2026 to March 21, 2027

The smugglers and the surrealist painters

Shigeru Ban exhibition, Building a Better World, at the Centre Pompidou-Metz

Cardboard, bamboo, reclaimed wood. With these materials, once considered humble, Shigeru Ban has been building churches, museums, and emergency shelters for forty years, and the Centre Pompidou-Metz is dedicating an exhibition to him, which he…

Exhibition: Diving into the Unknown at the National Maritime Museum in Toulon

How far can one descend, and what do we find at the bottom? The National Maritime Museum in Toulon takes this question seriously and retraces the entire underwater adventure in the Mediterranean, from Cousteau's first dives to the FNRS III…

Exhibition "Art is a Conquest: André Malraux and Modern Art" at the MuMa in Le Havre

“We can only feel through comparison.” The phrase is by André Malraux, and the MuMa (Musée d'art moderne André Malraux) has made it the very principle of its exhibition for the fiftieth anniversary of his death. The museum in Le Havre that bears his…

Exhibition "Voyage à l'anglaise, Turner et les artistes du Grand Tour" (English Journey, Turner and the Artists of the Grand Tour), at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille

William Turner © Tate - Photo: Tate In 1819, a forty-four-year-old Englishman crossed the Alps for the first time and encountered a light that no watercolor had yet been able to capture. William Turner had a solid reputation behind him, Italy before…

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Louvre Photo exhibition at the Louvre Museum: our photos and our opinion

LOUVRE MUSEUM
From November 4, 2026 to May 3, 2027

The Louvre Museum has entrusted Dominique de Font-Réaulx and Quentin Bajac, director of the Jeu de Paume, with the curatorship of Louvre Photo, visible on the Napoleon Mezzanine from November 4, 2026 to May 3, 2027, in a scenography by Juan Felipe Alarcón.