• Unavoidable

Mary Cassatt exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay: our photos and our review

MUSÉE D’ORSAY
From October 6, 2026 to January 31, 2027

Mary Cassatt, the independent one.

• Free
• Discovery

Cassini's map of France, an encyclopedia of the territory, at the National Archives

NATIONAL ARCHIVES MUSEUM – HÔTEL DE SOUBISE
From October 14, 2026 to February 1, 2027

Before Cassini's map, no one had seen the whole of France. The National Archives recount the surveying process which, village by village, gave it its face.

• Photo
• Unavoidable

Robert Capa : la légende dans le viseur...

Du 18 février au 20 décembre 2026
Musée de la Libération de Paris

Il n’a pas seulement photographié la guerre : il l’a incarnée. Robert Capa, figure mythique du photojournalisme, a fait de chaque image un morceau d’histoire et de chair.

• Fashion
• Photo

Rafael Pavarotti exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts

Museum of Decorative Arts
From October 2, 2026 to May 2, 2027

Rafael Pavarotti photographs fashion as a ceremony: at the Museum of Decorative Arts, two hundred images where black beauty finally occupies the center of the frame.

• Classic
• Free

Chagall exhibition, the color of feelings, at Gurr Johns

GURR JOHNS
From October 20 to December 8, 2026

Gurr Johns, an art consultancy firm, opens its Parisian offices on rue La Boétie to Marc Chagall: paintings and works on paper brought together around colour and the Bible, with free admission.

• With family
• Discovery

La cité des bébés, le paradis des tous petits à la Cité des sciences et de l'industrie

CITÉ DES SCIENCES ET DE L’INDUSTRIE
Nouvel espace permanent

La Cité des sciences et de l’industrie vous ouvre les portes d’un royaume inédit, créé rien que pour vous : la Cité des Bébés.

• Unavoidable
• Discovery

Jacques Villeglé exhibition, Paris à l’arraché, at the Carnavalet Museum: our photos and our review

CARNAVALET MUSEUM
From October 14, 2026 to February 14, 2027

The Carnavalet Museum presents Jacques Villeglé, Paris à l’arraché, from October 14, 2026 to February 14, 2027, for the centenary of the artist's birth. His torn posters, taken from Les Halles to Montparnasse, tell the story of nearly half a century of wanderings in the capital.

• Unavoidable

Eva Gonzalès Exhibition: Her First Retrospective, at the Petit Palais

PETIT PALAIS
From September 15, 2026 to January 24, 2027

Eva Gonzalès, the journey of a free-spirited artist.

• Unavoidable
• Contemporary

Kerry James Marshall - The Histories* exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris

Museum of Modern Art, Paris
From September 18, 2026 to January 24, 2027

The everyday black enters into the grand narratives of painting.

• Free
• Contemporary

Big names in art to see for free in Parisian galleries

PARISIAN GALLERIES
From October 18 to November 15, 2026

Calder, Tracey Emin, Lee Krasner, Anish Kapoor: during the most expensive week of the year for art, Parisian galleries line up museum-quality signatures and don't ask for a single euro.

• Contemporary
• Free

Warhol, Basquiat, Haring Exhibition at the Opera Gallery

OPERA GALLERY
From October 16 to November 18, 2026

From October 16 to November 18, 2026, the Opera Gallery in Paris brings together Warhol, Basquiat and Haring in an exhibition that tells the story of their friendship in 1980s New York. Free entry to see canvases and works on paper.

• Photo
• Free

Paris Humanist Exhibition at La Galerie Rouge

THE RED GALLERY
From October 1st to December 12th, 2026

For the bicentenary of photography, La Galerie Rouge brings together the six names that have made Paris travel the world, from Boubat to Sabine Weiss, and contrasts them with Martine Barrat’s more political view of the Goutte d’Or.

• Contemporary
• Free

Exhibition "At the Frontiers of the Imaginary" at the Pavillon Vendôme in Clichy

PAVILLON VENDÔME ART CENTER, CLICHY
From October 14, 2026 to January 9, 2027

Alexis Tricoire suspends a grove of trees from the ceiling of the Pavillon Vendôme, upside down, and its reflection on the floor rights it. The Clichy art center brings together seven artists around the themes of plants and ecological awareness.

• Discovery
• Sculpture

L'atelier Claude de Soria : visite du repère secret de l'artiste dans Paris

L'Atelier Claude de Soria

Découvrez cet atelier immaculé qui fait partie de ces dernières adresses secrètes de la capitale, celui de Claude de Soria, plasticienne à l'œuvre prolifique.

• With family
• Unusual

Exposition Esprit critique, détrompez-vous ! à la Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie

CITÉ DES SCIENCES ET DE L’INDUSTRIE
Jusqu’au 29 août 2027

Fake news, illusions, manipulations : saurez-vous garder l’œil ouvert ?

• Fashion

The Artist's Fabric Exhibition at the Bourdelle Museum

BOURDELLE MUSEUM
From September 23, 2026 to January 24, 2027

The Bourdelle Museum presents The Fabric of the Artist from September 23, 2026 to January 24, 2027. The outfits of Gustav Klimt, Rosa Bonheur or Sonia Delaunay, little-known pieces, are in dialogue with paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs, for a history of fashion told by the first great strategists of the image.

• Contemporary
• With family

The Paradox Museum returns to Paris

Paradox Museum
Permanent Collections

On May 18, the Paradox Museum opens its doors in Paris with its 1,700 m2 space offering unusual experiences driven by a simply astonishing concept.

• Contemporary
• Free

Alloy, Dzhurayeva, Dufour exhibition at the Taylor Foundation

TAYLOR FOUNDATION
October 1–24, 2026

The Taylor Foundation is bringing together until October 24, 2026 a Kyiv engraver, Olesya Dzhurayeva, the painter-photographer Jack Dufour and the sculptor Emmanuel Alloy, on rue La Bruyère, with free admission.

• Classic
• Unavoidable

Family Portraits Exhibition at the Jean-Jacques Henner National Museum

JEAN-JACQUES HENNER NATIONAL MUSEUM
From September 16, 2026 to January 4, 2027

From September 16, 2026 to January 4, 2027, the Jean-Jacques Henner National Museum in Paris presents a focused exhibition of portraits of the painter's close associates. A glimpse into the intimate studio where the pose, the dark background, and the pale flesh tones of the future society portraitist were formed.

• Contemporary
• Free

Thomas Houseago and Théo Mercier exhibition at Reiffers Art Initiatives

REIFFERS ART INITIATIVES
From October 23 to December 12, 2026

Thomas Houseago spent several weeks working under the glass roof of Reiffers Art Initiatives, then left everything as it was. Théo Mercier occupies the ground floor. This year, the foundation's mentorship program is offering two studios to visit instead of an exhibition.

• Contemporary

Mohammad Alfaraj exhibition, "I'd Rather Be a Dragonfly Than a Lion," at the Louis Vuitton Foundation

LOUIS VUITTON FOUNDATION
From October 9, 2026 to January 18, 2027

The Louis Vuitton Foundation is dedicating its first French exhibition to Mohammad Alfaraj, "I would rather be a dragonfly than a lion," until January 18, 2027. The artist from the Al-Ahsa oasis is showing his animated fables, frame by frame, made of palm fronds, dates and pebbles.

• Fashion
• Free

Exhibition Five Easy Pieces, Rick Owens, at the Carpenters Gallery

CARPENTERS WORKSHOP GALLERY
From October 20, 2026 to March 15, 2027

Michèle Lamy, partner and accomplice of Rick Owens, is the curator of Five Easy Pieces at Carpenters: five new editions of Owens' furniture, in steel left to rust and in marsh wood that has remained underwater for millennia.

• Free
• Discovery

Drew Dodge exhibition, "Reality in Imbalance" at the Semiose Gallery

SEMIOSE
From August 29 to October 24, 2026

When reason falters, painting takes over.

• Contemporary
• Unavoidable

Talisman Exhibition, a carte blanche for Ali Banisadr at the Gustave Moreau Museum

GUSTAVE MOREAU NATIONAL MUSEUM
From September 9 to December 7, 2026

A living painter enters Gustave Moreau's home

• Fashion

Chagall Couture exhibition at the Marc Chagall National Museum in Nice

MARC CHAGALL NATIONAL MUSEUM
From October 10, 2026 to January 18, 2027, then from February 6 to May 23, 2027

The Marc Chagall National Museum in Nice is exhibiting Chagall Couture from October 10, 2026 to May 23, 2027: seventy-six costumes and headdresses created by students from the Lycée des Coteaux de Cannes based on the painter's painted and engraved work.

• Fashion

Collections permanentes de la Cité de la dentelle et de la mode

Cité de la dentelle et de la mode
Collections permanentes

La Cité de la dentelle et de la mode, nichée au cœur d’une usine de dentelle du XIXe siècle, a ouvert ses portes en 2009 pour retracer l’histoire de cette splendide broderie .

À Saint-Jean-du-Gard, Samuel Bastide fait son cinéma

MAISON ROUGE – MUSÉE DES VALLÉES CÉVENOLES
Jusqu'au 2 mai 2027

Bien avant le septième art, il faisait déjà naître des mondes dans l'obscurité. À travers l'incroyable destin de Samuel Bastide, photographe, dessinateur et conteur cévenol, cette exposition ressuscite l'âge d'or de la lanterne magique. Ses quelque 2 500 plaques de verre peintes, projetées et commentées lors de spectacles itinérants, composent un fascinant théâtre d'images. 

LGBTQomics au Musée de la BD

CITÉ INTERNATIONALE DE LA BD ET DE L’IMAGE - MUSÉE DE LA BD
Jusqu’au 21 mars 2027

Comment raconter une autre histoire ? On a tous en mémoire une bande dessinée adorée. Et si le Neuvième Art révélait aussi un corpus inédit de bulles libres ?

• Photo
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Gerhard Richter Exhibition, Overpainted Photographs, at LUMA Arles

LUMA ARLES
Until January 10, 2027

LUMA Arles presents Gerhard Richter's Overpainted Photographs until January 10, 2027. The painter covers his own family photographs with scraped oil, taken from the remains of his abstract canvases.

• Discovery

Découverte : Le Château de la Ballue et ses jardins d’Alice…

Château de la Ballue

Le jardin d’Alice au Pays des Merveilles existe ! Niché dans la campagne bretonne, le Château de la Ballue est une merveille cachée de notre patrimoine.

• Discovery
• With family

TOP 5 des nouveautés en régions !

Nos régions font aussi leur rentrée !

• Romantic
• Discovery

FLORE : une Égypte intime au Musée de Picardie

MUSÉE DE PICARDIE
Jusqu’au 3 janvier 2027

FLORE. Un seul nom. Et des images qui ressemblent à des souvenirs qu'on n'aurait pas tout à fait vécus – nacrées, opalines, légèrement voilées, comme si la lumière elle-même hésitait à se poser. La…

Art and anarchy at the Roubaix swimming pool

LA PISCINE - ANDRÉ DILIGENT MUSEUM OF ART AND INDUSTRY
From October 10, 2026 to January 24, 2027

Neither God nor master. From Gustave Courbet to Banksy, La Piscine retraces a century and a half of art spent under the libertarian banner.

• Unavoidable
• Fashion

Ingres & Fashion at the Ingres Bourdelle Museum

INGRES BOURDELLE MUSEUM
From July 3 to November 8, 2026

At the Ingres Bourdelle Museum, more than two hundred works, paintings, drawings, period textiles and accessories, make up the first major reading of the intimate relationship that Ingres maintained with fashion.

• Classic

The strange case of Monsieur Gallé, the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy

Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy
From October 21, 2026 to February 28, 2027

From October 21, 2026 to February 28, 2027, the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy opens the workshops of Émile Gallé: one hundred and forty pieces, from 1880 to the 1920s, in an exhibition recognized as being of national interest by the State.

• Contemporary

Louisa Gagliardi exhibition, In Plain Sight, at the Mougins Art Centre

MOUGINS
From November 6, 2026 to April 4, 2027

The FAMM presents its second winter exhibition at the Mougins Art Centre: the first monograph in France of the Swiss artist Louisa Gagliardi, curated by Simon de Pury.

• News
• Sculpture

Camille Claudel & Bernhard Hoetger: the 1905 exhibition

Camille Claudel Museum
From September 12, 2026 to January 10, 2027

The Camille Claudel Museum revisits a moment in the history of sculpture: the meeting in 1905 between Camille Claudel and Bernhard Hoetger.

• Photo
• Free

Exhibition: Marseille as seen by the Detaille family at the Marseille History Museum

MARSEILLE HISTORY MUSEUM
Until June 20, 2027

The Marseille History Museum presents "Marseille as seen by the Detaille family: 164 years of photographs," on display until June 20, 2027, with free admission. The collection from the studio taken over in 1902 by Fernand Detaille, dating back to 1860, was acquired by the city in 2021.

• Discovery
• Contemporary

Lumière sculptée au musée Mandet

MUSÉE MANDET
Du 13 juin 2026 au 3 janvier 2027

Le Musée Mandet de Riom consacre une exposition entièrement nouvelle à Emilie Lemardeley.

110 years since the Battle of the Somme

HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR
FROM JUNE 28 TO DECEMBER 6, 2026

The 110th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme at the Historial de la Grande Guerre.

• Contemporary
• Discovery

Hervé Di Rosa's "Mirages of the World" exhibition at La Malmaison, Cannes

LA MALMAISON ART CENTER
From July 17 to November 8, 2026

Forty years of painting by Hervé Di Rosa in three chapters, from Free Figuration to Idols, facing the Croisette.

• Fashion
• Sculpture

Maurizio Galante et Tal Lancman à la Cité de la dentelle et au musée des Beaux-Arts

CITÉ DE LA DENTELLE ET DE LA MODE et MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE CALAIS
Jusqu’au 3 janvier 2027

Depuis 2003, Maurizio Galante et Tal Lancman explorent la frontière mouvante entre couture, design et arts visuels

• Contemporary
• Free

Exhibition: Facts as Challenges at the Bullukian Foundation, Lyon

BULLUKIAN FOUNDATION
From September 19 to December 19, 2026

The Bullukian Foundation, Place Bellecour in Lyon, presents Facts as Challenges until December 19, 2026: fourteen artists around Nadja Anane's film about Julia Butterfly Hill, who stayed 738 days in a sequoia tree.

• Contemporary
• Unavoidable

Discover the permanent Estuary trail in Nantes

Loire Estuary, starting from Nantes
Permanent

The city of Nantes offers us a very beautiful walk through contemporary art via its permanent art trail in the Estuary.

• Classic
• With family

New exhibition route at the Sainte-Croix Museum in Poitiers: from shadow to light

Holy Cross Museum
Permanent route

The Sainte-Croix Museum looks back on 13 centuries of archeology with this new permanent exhibition tour.

• Fashion

De Latour & Maïques Exhibition: Metamorphosis at the Cité de la dentelle et de la mode de Calais (City of Lace and Fashion in Calais)

CITY OF LACE AND FASHION
From September 19 to December 13, 2026

Until December 13, 2026, the Cité de la dentelle et de la mode (City of Lace and Fashion) in Calais is showcasing a display window dedicated to Vincent Richard de Latour and Claire Maïques, textile embellishment artisans. Lace, organza, marbled leather, and metallization combine in a delightfully disorienting exhibition.

• Discovery
• With family

Matisse, the symphony of colours at the Carrières des Lumières in Les Baux-de-Provence

CARRIÈRES DES LUMIÈRES
Starting October 9, 2026

The new immersive program in Les Baux-de-Provence follows Matisse color by color, from the blue of the cut-out Nudes to the stained glass windows of Vence.

• Unavoidable
• Discovery

At Notre-Dame de la Garde, the earthenware regains its fervor.

At the Notre-Dame de la Garde Museum in Marseille, an exhibition has opened that we may have been waiting for, without realizing it, for three centuries. With "Earthenware & Devotion: Marseille–Moustiers in the 17th and 18th Centuries," nearly 150 works, many of them previously unseen, tell the story of the close ties forged in Provence between artistic creation and the expression of faith.

• Fashion
• Unavoidable

The 90s, Art and Fashion exhibition at Tate Britain

TATE BRITAIN
From October 8, 2026 to February 14, 2027

Tate Britain reopens 1990s London: Cool Britannia, resourceful spirit and cult of reality, the portrait of a youth that redefined cool.

• Discovery
• Unavoidable

Exposition Chez Matisse au H'Art Museum

H’ART MUSEUM
Du 3 octobre 2026 au 14 février 2027

Matisse n’a pas seulement peint la couleur : il a changé notre manière de la voir.

• Discovery
• With family

Le Japon et l'Antiquité au musée Romain de Lausanne-Vidy

MUSÉE ROMAIN DE LAUSANNE-VIDY
Du 29 mai au 24 janvier 2027

Empereurs et gladiateurs côtoient mangas, jeux vidéo, figurines de collection et cosplays au Musée romain de Vidy.

• Contemporary
• Unavoidable

Constellations exhibition at the Beyeler Foundation, in Peter Zumthor's new buildings

The Beyeler Foundation is expanding and exhibiting approximately 230 works from its collection. The new Wyss Museum, designed by Peter Zumthor, opens alongside them. Riehen, on the outskirts of Basel.…

• Discovery
• Classic

Jean Brusselmans exhibition at Bozar, Brussels

BOZAR, BRUSSELS
From October 2, 2026 to January 31, 2027

Bozar is dedicating its first major retrospective since 1980 to Jean Brusselmans, a Brussels painter of Brabant landscapes, featuring some one hundred and twenty works, from October 2, 2026 to January 31, 2027.

• Discovery

The Design Museum Ghent reopens with Public Matter(s)

DESIGN MUSEUM GENT
From October 3, 2026 to April 11, 2027

The Design Museum in Ghent reopens after four years of work with a new wing and the exhibition Public Matter(s): Design and Democracy, from October 3, 2026 to April 11, 2027.

• Contemporary
• Discovery

Portia Zvavahera Exhibition at WIELS, Brussels

WIELS
From October 31, 2026 to February 28, 2027

WIELS, Brussels' contemporary art center, celebrates its twentieth anniversary with Zimbabwean painter Portia Zvavahera, from October 31, 2026 to February 28, 2027, and hosts Ali Cherri until January 3.

• Discovery
• Unavoidable

Exposition Renoir and Love à la National Gallery

THE NATIONAL GALLERY
Du 3 oct. 2026 au 31 jan. 2027

Chez Renoir, l’amour se peint comme une lumière : fugace, douce et éclatante.

• Classic
• Unavoidable

Maria Lassnig and Edvard Munch exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zürich

KUNSTHAUS ZÜRICH
From October 2, 2026 to February 21, 2027

The Kunsthaus Zürich, which houses the largest collection of Munch's work outside of Norway, is bringing together the Norwegian painter and the Austrian Maria Lassnig for the first time. Two raw and vibrant bodies of work, separated by half a century.

Le TOP des jardins en Europe

L’Europe ne se résume pas seulement à ses cathédrales, ses palais et ses musées. Elle cache aussi des jardins hors normes. On découvre un géant couvert d’herbe qui crache une cascade dans les Alpes…

• Classic
• Drawing

Exhibition Rubens, Jordaens, van Dyck at the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

KUPFERSTICHKABINETT
From October 10, 2026 to January 31, 2027

The Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin is bringing out its Flemish treasures for the first time in fifty years: more than one hundred drawings by twenty-eight artists, with Rubens, Jordaens and Van Dyck in the spotlight.

• Unusual
• Unavoidable

Les pavillons à la Biennale de Venise 2026

Cette année 2026, la Biennale arrive avec une teinte particulière. Le projet curatorial de Koyo Kouoh revendique une attention aux fréquences basses, aux récits latéraux, aux écosystèmes discrets.

• Classic
• Discovery

The exhibition "Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin!" at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest

Museum of Fine Arts Budapest
From October 30, 2026 to February 28, 2027

From October 30, 2026 to February 28, 2027, the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest presents "Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin!". Focusing on Paul Gauguin and the circles of artists he encountered, from Pont-Aven to Tahiti, the exhibition brings together one hundred and fifty works, including eighty by the painter, a collection that Hungary had never seen before.

• Classic
• Unavoidable

Hofburg: Visit the sumptuous Habsburg residence in Vienna, Austria

Vienna
Guided tours

More than a hundred years after their fall, the Hofburg invites us to follow in the footsteps of the Habsburgs, the former royal family of Austria, to their final resting place in Vienna.

• Unavoidable
• Contemporary

Dalí exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid

THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA MUSEUM
From October 20, 2026 to January 24, 2027

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid brings Dalí face to face with Freud, whom he only met once. Six sections show what the painter took from psychoanalysis, and what he subverted from it.

• With family
• Drawing

Les collections du génie du surréalisme exposées au Museum Gallery XPO Salvador Dalí

Museum Gallery XPO Salvador Dalí.
Collections permanentes

Nous entrons dans l’antre de Salvador Dalí et découvrons la plus importante collection des œuvres de l’artiste, exposée en Belgique, au Museum Gallery XPO Salvador Dalí.

Ana Mendieta à la Tate Modern

Tate Modern Bankside
Du 15 juillet 2026 au 3 janvier 2027

La Tate Modern invite Ana Mendieta pour une exposition incontournable à partir de ce mois de juillet.

• Fashion
• Unavoidable

The Antwerp Six exhibition at MoMu, Antwerp

MOMU, Antwerp
From March 28, 2026 to January 17, 2027

The MoMu, Antwerp's fashion museum, is bringing together for the first time the Antwerp Six, from Dries Van Noten to Ann Demeulemeester, forty years after their London breakthrough, from March 28, 2026 to January 17, 2027.

• Unavoidable
• Classic

Exhibition "Impressionism, a Belgian Story" at La Boverie, Liège

LA BOVERIE, LIÈGE
From October 9, 2026 to March 29, 2027

For its tenth anniversary, La Boverie, in Liège, is bringing together nearly one hundred and fifty Belgian and French Impressionist works, from Émile Claus and Ensor to Monet and Renoir, from October 9, 2026 to March 29, 2027.

• Classic
• Discovery

Whistler Exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

VAN GOGH MUSEUM
From October 16, 2026 to January 10, 2027

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is dedicating an exhibition to James McNeill Whistler, the American in London who wanted painting to be music and not a story.

• Discovery
• Unavoidable

Exposition William Kentridge du trait au mouvement au Bozar, Palais des Beaux-Arts

BOZAR, PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS
BELGIQUE - Du 18 sept. au 7 mars 2027

Chez William Kentridge, le dessin devient une arme contre l’oubli.

• Unavoidable
• Contemporary

Exhibition A truly immense journey at Kanal-Centre Pompidou

KANAL-CENTRE POMPIDOU
From November 28, 2026 to January 9, 2028

Kanal-Centre Pompidou opens in Brussels with A truly immense journey, an exhibition of more than three hundred and fifty works, mostly from the Centre Pompidou, from November 28, 2026 to January 9, 2028.

• Unusual
• Unavoidable

Julio Le Parc à la Tate Modern

TATE MODERN BANKSIDE
Du 11 juin 2026 au 3 mai 2027

Light. Colour. Action. À 98 ans, l'Argentin Julio Le Parc, fondateur du GRAV et prix de peinture à la Biennale de Venise 1966, a droit à sa première grande rétrospective londonienne. Soixante œuvres…

• Contemporary
• Discovery

Frida Kahlo à la Tate Modern

TATE MODERN BANKSIDE
Du 25 juin 2026 au 3 janvier 2027

Cent trente œuvres, robes tehuanas, bijoux, photographies personnelles et mementos : le blockbuster de l'été londonien retrace l'œuvre et l'héritage de Frida Kahlo dans un parcours sensoriel inédit.