• Contemporary
• Free

Charlotte Barrault Exhibition, Gardens, at the Larock-Granoff Gallery

LAROCK-GRANOFF GALLERY
From October 2nd to November 7th, 2026

The Larock-Granoff gallery is offering Charlotte Barrault's first solo exhibition until November 7, 2026: Jardins, a journey in three parts, quai de Conti, where the flower finally becomes a complete subject.

• Contemporary
• Free

[IN]imaginable Exhibition, the disturbing exhibition at Fluctuart

FLUCTUART
Until December 20, 2026

Fluctuart, at the foot of the Pont des Invalides, is dedicating the exhibition [IN]imaginable to lowbrow and pop surrealism until December 20, 2026. Featuring works by Ron English, Todd Schorr, Tara McPherson, and installations created on the barge by Amandine Urruty and Benjamin Lacombe, admission is free.

• Contemporary
• Free

Exhibition "Happy Retirement Dad," Rayane Mcirdi at the Frac Île-de-France, Le Plateau

Forty years in the factory, and one last day. Rayane Mcirdi filmed his father's retirement and turned it into an exhibition that you walk through standing up. The film exists, but Le Plateau doesn't…

• Classic
• Free

Exhibition "Painting the World," paintings from the Southern Netherlands, at De Jonckheere

DE JONCKHEERE
From October 19 to November 20, 2026

From October 19 to November 20, 2026, the De Jonckheere gallery returns to Paris with paintings from the Southern Netherlands. Landscapes, portraits, genre scenes, and still lifes to be viewed from afar, then up close. Free admission.

• Unavoidable
• Discovery

Dalí Paris: Discover the permanent collections of the Parisian temple of surrealism in pictures

Dalí Paris
Permanent collections

The Dalí Museum in Paris, dedicated to the genius of Surrealism, offers a fantastical journey retracing the work of the Spanish painter. Discover it in pictures!

• Contemporary
• Free

Tatiana Andreeva exhibition at the Alina Pinsky gallery

ALINA PINSKY GALLERY
From September 23 to November 21, 2026

The Alina Pinsky gallery is offering its first French exhibition to Tatiana Andreeva, a pioneer of Soviet optical-kinetic art, until November 21, 2026, conceived with Bernard Blistène.

• Contemporary
• Free

Oscar Murillo exhibition, Unfinished Thinking, at the David Zwirner Gallery, Paris

DAVID ZWIRNER PARIS
From October 19 to December 19, 2026

David Zwirner Paris inaugurates its space on rue Vieille-du-Temple with Oscar Murillo, Unfinished thinking, from October 19 to December 19, 2026: canvases and social cartographies by the winner of the 2019 Turner Prize.

• Fashion
• Unavoidable

The Look! 40 Years of Fashion Exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts

MAD PARIS
From September 30, 2026 to April 4, 2027

At MAD, forty silhouettes tell the story of four decades in which clothing became a work of art.

• Photo

Robert Capa exhibition at the Museum of the Liberation of Paris

Museum of the Liberation of Paris
Until December 20, 2026

The Museum of the Liberation of Paris is dedicating an exhibition to Robert Capa until December 20, 2026. One hundred and sixty pieces, prints, magazines, books and personal objects, trace the photographer's approach.

• Unavoidable
• Unusual

A private tour of Maison Gainsbourg

Thirty-two years after the disappearance of Serge Gainsbourg, the legendary address of 5 bis rue de Verneuil writes a new page in its history

• Classic
• With family

Marie-Caroline, Duchess of Berry. Rebel Princess, the exhibition at the Château de Sceaux

Château de Sceaux, Departmental Museum
From September 13, 2026 to February 14, 2027

Marie-Caroline, one of the most fascinating figures of the 19th century.

• Contemporary
• Free

Yu Nishimura Exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations

LAFAYETTE ANTICIPATIONS
From October 21, 2026 to January 3, 2027

Lafayette Anticipations offers Japanese painter Yu Nishimura his first institutional solo exhibition in France, from October 21, 2026 to January 3, 2027. Around fifty works from the last ten years, including several unseen works, where oil and tempera borrow from cinema and photography, free admission.

• Unusual
• Contemporary

The Guests of the Louvre, Kader Attia and Elizabeth Peyton: the exhibition about their unique residency at the Louvre Museum

LOUVRE MUSEUM
From September 24 to December 14, 2026

The Louvre invites artists to return to their quarters.

• Discovery
• With family

The Cherqui Foundation, the temple of kinetic art on the outskirts of Paris

Cherqui Foundation
Permanent collections

For those who love kinetic art, come and discover the Cherqui foundation in Aubervilliers, bringing together a total of 5,000 optical works from a private collection.

• With family
• Contemporary

L'exposition Transparence s'empare du Palais des enfants

PALAIS DES ENFANTS
Du 20 juin 2025 au 29 août 2027

Avec Transparence, le Palais des Enfants à Paris invite à explorer ce thème par des jeux, de lumière et d'illusions, un lieu unique pour les curieux et rêveurs.

• 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

• Contemporary
• Free

Walid Raad Exhibition, Festival of (in)gratitude: the artist himself guides the tour at CENTQUATRE-PARIS

LE CENTQUATRE-PARIS
From October 23 to November 22, 2026

The artist himself guides the tour

• Discovery
• Free

Exhibition Behind the Scenes at the Museum at the Avelines Museum

MUSEUM OF THE AVELINES, SAINT-CLOUD
From October 15, 2026 to February 21, 2027

The Musée des Avelines opens its reserves and reveals what the public never sees: the inventory, the management, the restoration. It also displays works never before exhibited, including a bust of Flaubert by Clésinger, which is still awaiting its inventory number.

• Movie theater
• Unavoidable

Belmondo, the Magnificent exhibition at the French Cinematheque

THE FRENCH FILM LIBRARY
From October 7, 2026 to January 31, 2027

Belmondo, the Magnificent: family archives, costumes and unpublished photos, plus thirty-five films

• Contemporary
• Free

Klodin Erb exhibition, The Great Drama, at the Swiss Cultural Centre

SWISS CULTURAL CENTER. PARIS
From September 19 to December 24, 2026

Klodin Erb had never had a solo exhibition in France. The Swiss Cultural Centre is entrusting him with its glass roof until Christmas Eve, for a grand painted drama where the burlesque vies for the leading role with tragedy.

• Contemporary
• Free

Tracey Emin exhibition at White Cube Paris: our photos from the visit

WHITE CUBE PARIS
From October 20 to December 18, 2026

White Cube Paris is exhibiting Tracey Emin from October 20 to December 18, 2026, on Avenue Matignon: her first solo exhibition in the Parisian gallery, featuring paintings and small bronzes, following the retrospective at Tate Modern.

• Contemporary
• Free

Lee Bae, Brushstrokes and Born of Fire, at Perrotin

PERROTIN MARAIS
From October 17 to December 19, 2026

From October 17 to December 19, 2026, Perrotin Marais presents Lee Bae, a Korean artist who has lived in France since 1990 and now works exclusively with charcoal: charred pine trees from the series "Born of Fire" combined with inks from "Brushstrokes." Black, nothing but black, free admission.

• Discovery
• With family

Climate emergency, the permanent exhibition at the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie

In its new permanent exhibition, the city of sciences is rethinking our way of living in the world to limit the consequences of global warming.

• Photo
• Discovery

L'Espace entre nous : Questionner le pacte photographique

Le BAL
Du 19 juin 2026 au 3 janvier 2027

Qu'est-ce qui se passe, exactement, au moment du déclic ? Entre celui qui tient l'appareil et celui qui se laisse regarder, un espace existe

• Unavoidable
• Classic

Le mythique Château de Bussy-Rabutin dévoile son nouveau parcours

Château de Bussy-Rabutin
Nouveau parcours

A l'occasion de sa réouverture complète, le Château de Bussy-Rabutin inaugure un nouveau parcours illustrant l'histoire du comte Roger de Bussy-Rabutin.

• Unavoidable
• Discovery

The "Eating Images" exhibition at the Mucem in Marseille

MUCEM, J4 LEVEL 2
From October 28, 2026 to April 12, 2027

The Mucem tells in four hundred and thirty-five pieces how, around the Mediterranean, images were eaten, from the host to the love cake, with Ingres, Meret Oppenheim and Michel Journiac.

• Unavoidable
• With family

The Historial of the Great War of Péronne: seeing history differently

History of the Great War
Permanent collections

The History of the Great War of Péronne immerses us in the horror of war, on the front and at the rear, alongside the armies of the countries in conflict.

• Discovery
• With family

Escapade à Cognac et ses alentours

GRAND COGNAC
Saison 2026

Quatre escales, un détour royal. Grand Cognac ouvre la saison 2026 sur le patrimoine ressuscité, l’art de la distillation et un site paléontologique d’envergure mondiale.

• 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.

• Classic

Roman art from the Louvre to the Museum of Romanity

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.

• With family
• Unavoidable

In minor blue: the Chaumont art season

CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE ESTATE
Until November 1, 2026

Twelve artists, one color, a château on the Loire. The nineteenth art season at Chaumont-sur-Loire opens under the sign of blue – not a decorative blue, but rather a mental, inner blue, circulating…

• Classic
• With family

Gaillon Castle: come and discover the first Renaissance castle in France

Gaillon Castle
Allée de l’Ermitage, 27600 Gaillon

Welcome to the Château de Gaillon, the first Renaissance castle in France and home to some of the most illustrious kings.

• Movie theater
• With family

The garden is putting on a show in Chaumont-sur-Loire

CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE ESTATE
From April 22 to November 1, 2026

Silence on set. This season, the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire is filming. The International Garden Festival—thirty years of creation, 32 hectares of parkland, a Loire château as its backdrop—is…

• Contemporary
• Unavoidable

Lyon Biennale 2026: Art makes its way even into the city's secret passages

LYON BIENNIAL
From September 19 to December 13, 2026

A former locomotive factory, a museum exceptionally reopened, traboules to explore… For its 18th edition, the Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale takes us far beyond the exhibition halls. A journey through…

• Unavoidable
• Classic

 City of Stained Glass: a jewel of gold, glass and lead in Troyes

Stained Glass City
Permanent Exhibition

Nestled in the heart of a historical monument, the young City of Stained Glass opens the doors to a religious and secular world made of changing colors.

• Classic

Fernand Léger exhibition, bodies in celebration, world in colours, at the Matisse Museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis

HENRI MATISSE DEPARTMENTAL MUSEUM
From October 17, 2026 to January 27, 2027

From October 17, 2026 to January 27, 2027, the Henri Matisse departmental museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis dedicates its first exhibition to Fernand Léger. Bold colors, bodies in motion and joie de vivre, with a dialogue with Nadia Léger.

• Case
• Sculpture

Calder, the centenary: 11 locations in Touraine and Centre-Val de Loire

CENTRE-VAL DE LOIRE
Calder in the heart of France

One hundred years after Alexander Calder's arrival in Paris, the Centre-Val de Loire region celebrates the inventor of the mobile with "Calder at the heart of France", as part of the AR(t]CHIPEL festival: eleven venues, from Chambord to the Château du Rivau, host giant stabiles, mobiles, gouaches and films, from autumn 2026 to spring 2027.

• Unavoidable
• Contemporary

La maison Matisse fait peau neuve au Cateau-Cambrésis

Musée départemental Henri Matisse
Le Cateau-Cambrésis, 59360

La Maison Matisse rouvre au Cateau-Cambrésis : un lieu intime pensé par l’artiste, enrichi de chefs-d’œuvre rares et d’un regard neuf sur sa modernité.

• 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.

• Contemporary

Ernest Pignon-Ernest at the Ziem Museum

ZIEM MUSEUM
Until December 31, 2026

The exhibition refocuses on a key episode in the artist's history: his interventions in Martigues.

• Unavoidable
• Discovery

Ernest Pignon-Ernest at Inguimbertine

INGUIMBERTIN
From May 23 to December 31, 2026

Naples, 1988. Ernest Pignon-Ernest, after immersing himself in the history of the city and its walls bearing a living memory, descends into the alleyways, his life-size drawings under his arm.

• Literary
• Discovery

Chateaubriand and Juliette Récamier Exhibition at the Maison de Chateaubriand, Vallée-aux-Loups

CHATEAUBRIAND HOUSE
From October 2, 2026 to September 26, 2027

The first exhibition dedicated to the story of Chateaubriand and Juliette Récamier, in the house where he began his Memoirs.

• Photo
• Discovery

Paul McCartney au musée Granet

MUSÉE GRANET
Du 4 juillet 2026 au 3 janvier 2027

Le musée Granet à Aix-en-Provence présente plus de deux cent cinquante photographies de Paul McCartney pour la première fois en France.

• Classic
• With family

Découvrez le Musée de Balzac Saché, un voyage au coeur de la littérature

Musée Balzac - Château de Saché
Collection permanente

Le musée Balzac retrace l’histoire mouvementée de l’iconographie balzacienne dans un nouvel espace d’exposition. Suivant un parcours chronologique et thématique caressant les années 1840 à nos jours, le Château de Saché dévoile cet été l’image de ce « grand pétrisseur des Hommes ».

• Video
• With family

 Une plongée dans l’histoire des Cévennes exposée au Musée des vallées Cévenoles de Saint-Jean-du-Gard

Maison Rouge - Musée des vallées cévénoles
Collection permanente

À Saint-Jean-du-Gard, voyagez sur les terres des Cévennes avec la surprenante collection du Musée des Vallées Cévenoles.

• 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.

• Photo

Exhibition "The Lives of Photography" at the Le Château d'Eau gallery in Toulouse

THE WATER TOWER
From October 16, 2026 to February 21, 2027

The Le Château d’Eau gallery in Toulouse presents The Lives of Photography from October 16, 2026 to February 21, 2027. Together with the Paul-Dupuy and Georges-Labit museums, it brings together 19th-century daguerreotypes and contemporary photography in the same room.

• With family
• Unavoidable

Sur les pas de Courbet : six balades à l’œil libre avec les Sentiers Courbet

DÉPARTEMENT DU DOUBS

Marcher avec Courbet, c’est entrer dans un tableau grandeur nature. Six itinéraires, six approches, pour redécouvrir la nature comme un territoire mental.

• Discovery
• Contemporary

Simultaneous, Marie Ducaté at the Ariana Museum in Geneva

Ariana Museum
From February 20, 2026 to November 29, 2026

Discover at the Ariana Museum the colourful world of Marie Ducaté: painting, ceramics, glass and textiles interact in a poetic and luminous exhibition.

• Sculpture
• Unusual

 Sand City au Portugal : Le plus grand musée de sculptures de sable au monde à découvrir en vidéo

Sand City - Lagoa, Portugal
Collection permanente

Au sud du Portugal, venez découvrir le plus grand musée à ciel ouvert de sculptures de sable avec des créations en chair et en sable impressionnantes crées par des artistes venus du monde entier.

• 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.

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.

• Classic
• Unavoidable

Signac exhibition, symphony of colors at the Kunsthal Rotterdam

KUNSTHAL ROTTERDAM
From October 24, 2026 to February 28, 2027

The Kunsthal in Rotterdam is dedicating an exhibition to Paul Signac, for whom divisionism was less a matter of optics than a matter of boats.

• 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.…

• 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.

• Contemporary
• Digital

À Bruxelles, l'Atomium est "Plus éclatante que jamais depuis 2006"

Du 14 février 2026 au 14 février 2027
Atomium de Bruxelles

À partir du 14 février 2026, l’Atomium célèbre les vingt ans de sa rénovation avec une vaste programmation anniversaire déployée tout au long de l’année.

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…

• Unavoidable
• Unusual

La Tapisserie de Bayeux est au British Museum de Londres

La Tapisserie de Bayeux : mille ans d’histoire au bout du fil. Le chef-d’œuvre médiéval déroule son récit au British Museum.

• Discovery
• Unusual

Arcana Borealis exhibition at the Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

ATENEUM ART MUSEUM
From October 23, 2026 to February 28, 2027

The Ateneum in Helsinki brought together women from the North who, like Hilma af Klint, invented abstraction while believing they were painting under the dictation of spirits. There were about fifty of them.

• Contemporary
• Unavoidable

Willem de Kooning at work exhibition at the Rijksmuseum

RIJKSMUSEUM
From October 9, 2026 to January 17, 2027

The Rijksmuseum brings together nearly one hundred and twenty works by Willem de Kooning and takes a rare approach: placing the drawing at the center, not as a draft but as a work of art.

• Discovery
• Unavoidable

Exposition Picasso, Bacon, deux fauves face au corps à l'Albertina

ALBERTINA MUSEUM
Du 18 sept. 2026 au 31 jan. 2027

Ils ne se sont jamais rencontrés, mais ils semblent peindre le même cri.

• Discovery
• Unavoidable

Exposition Portraits ! De Botticelli à Lempicka à la Gemäldegalerie

GEMÄLDEGALERIE
Du 16 octobre 2026 au 14 mars 2027

Se montrer, se raconter, être vu : le selfie n’a rien inventé.

• 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.

• Contemporary
• Discovery

Aléas exhibition at the CID in Grand-Hornu, near Mons

CID AT GRAND-HORNU
From November 15, 2026 to April 18, 2027

The CID at Grand-Hornu entrusts its winter exhibition to chance. From November 15, 2026 to April 18, 2027, Aléas, pratiques de l'adaptation brings together in Hornu, near Mons, designers who work with gravity, the living and the already-there rather than imposing a plan, in a former coal mine listed as a world heritage site.

• Discovery
• Unavoidable

Exposition Dalí, Du rêve à la garde robe au Palazzo Reale

PALAZZO REALE, ITALIE
Du 24 sept. 2026 au 31 jan. 2027

Quand Dalí rêvait, Schiaparelli habillait les rêves.

• Contemporary
• Unavoidable

Steve McQueen exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO
From October 9, 2026 to February 21, 2027

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao entrusts its Film and Video gallery to Steve McQueen, Oscar winner for 12 Years a Slave and one of the greatest artists of the moving image.

• Free
• Contemporary

Banu Cennetoğlu exhibition, right? at Kanal-Centre Pompidou

KANAL-CENTRE POMPIDOU
From November 28, 2026 to May 23, 2027

In the Kanal-Centre Pompidou showroom in Brussels, Banu Cennetoğlu is bringing together for the first time the thirty articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in golden balloon letters, freely accessible from November 28, 2026 to May 23, 2027.

• Discovery
• Unavoidable

Exposition Peindre la Riviera de Monet à Matisse à la Royal Academy of Arts

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS
Du 2 octobre 2026 au 31 janvier 2027

Sur la Côte d’Azur, les peintres sont venus chercher la lumière et ont trouvé la modernité.

• Unavoidable
• Contemporary

Munch - Picasso exhibition at the Picasso Museum Málaga

PICASSO MUSEUM MÁLAGA
From October 30, 2026 to February 28, 2027

The Picasso Museum Málaga brings together Edvard Munch and Pablo Picasso, two painters who never met and yet constantly addressed the same subject.

• Classic
• Discovery

Titian's Venus exhibition at the Castelvecchio Museum, Verona

CASTELVECCHIO MUSEUM
From October 31, 2026 to January 31, 2027

For its centenary, the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona acquired Titian's Venus with a Dog and an Organ Player from the Prado. A single painting, yet representing a whole century of art.

• 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.

• Contemporary
• Discovery

Shilpa Gupta exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

HAMBURGER BAHNHOF – NATIONALGALERIE DER GEGENWART
From March 27, 2026 to January 3, 2027

Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof entrusts its volumes to the Indian artist Shilpa Gupta, who makes the word TRUTH an architecture and truth a physical experience.