The "Long Live the Bride!" exhibition at the Arab World Institute

ARAB WORLD INSTITUTE
From September 29, 2026 to February 28, 2027

Forty Maghreb wedding costumes never before shown in France, and twenty-seven contemporary artists who respond to them.

• Discovery

First Nations - Arts and Cultures of Northwest America at the Quai Branly Museum

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques-Chirac
From September 29, 2026 to January 17, 2027

Along 1,800 kilometers of coastline, the First Nations of the American Northwest built societies without agriculture or writing, yet sedentary and hierarchical. The Quai Branly Museum allows visitors to read their sculpted language.

• 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.

• Photo
• Unusual

Nadar Exhibition, Inventing Paris, from the Depths to the Sky, at the Catacombs of Paris

CATACOMBS OF PARIS
From September 29, 2026 to January 31, 2027

Nadar's work is on display twenty meters underground, in the galleries he was the first to photograph.

• 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

• Free
• Discovery

From figurative to abstract: sixteen painters and one sculptor at the Galerie de l'Europe

GALLERY OF EUROPE
From September 22 to October 17, 2026

A large family gathering, on Rue de Seine.

Exhibition "Restituer," Philippe Guesdon facing Dürer at the Louviers Museum

A contemporary painter repaints Dürer's engravings, facing the Louviers altarpiece which had copied them in the 16th century.

Joan Miró au Musée Hyacinthe Rigaud

MUSÉE HYACINTHE RIGAUD
Du 27 juin au 31 décembre 2026

Le musée d’art Hyacinthe Rigaud consacre sa dernière exposition à Joan Miro : son installation définitive à Majorque, à soixante-trois ans, et la mue radicale qui s’ensuit.

• 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.

Le réalisme animal au Musée Courbet

MUSÉE COURBET
Du 27 juin au 8 novembre 2026

Le Musée Courbet d'Ornans met le réalisme animal à l'honneur : Courbet, Rosa Bonheur et Paolo Boosten donnent aux animaux le droit d'être des portraits.

• 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…

• Classic

L'art romain du Louvre au Musée de la Romanité

MUSÉE DE LA ROMANITÉ 
DU 11 JUIN 2026 AU 10 JANVIER 2027

À Nîmes, le monde romain n'est pas un souvenir : c'est une géographie.

• Unavoidable

Rodin sous l’œil de Rilke à la Fondation Gianadda

FONDATION PIERRE GIANADDA
Du 26 juin au 22 novembre 2026

Qui connaît vraiment Rodin ? Personne ne le connaît, sans avoir lu Rilke.

• 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.…