Museums

You plan your trip to Paris and have all the big things on your list to see. The Eiffel Tower, Musée d’Orsay, Arc de Triomphe, Louvre and-- if you are brave-- maybe even the...

Lucky visitors (and residents!) of Paris know that many of the city's museums are free on the first Sunday of the month. But now the Louvre is shaking things up. The world's most visited museum...

A major exhibition explores Samuel Courtauld’s role as one of the great art collectors of the twentieth century. Don’t miss this extraordinary collection. The Courtauld Collection at Fondation Louis Vuitton  Samuel Courtauld (1876-1947) had strong ties...

Pauline Viardot was part of the Spanish Garcia family, four generations of singers and composers who greatly influenced opera and singing in four countries for more than a century. She was a household name...

When you walk inside the Musée du Louvre you can’t miss the many paintings and statues dedicated to love. Just the art depicting Venus could fill a small museum on their own. However, it...

My favorite little Paris museum has undergone a metamorphosis! The experience of walking through an intimate and uncrowded museum space full of Salvador Dali’s most spectacular art is a special treat I save for myself...

Centre Pompidou curators Brigitte Leal, Christian Briend, and Adrianne Coulondre have organized a spectacular exhibition for the maddeningly complex movement Cubism. Enormous, exhausting and exhilarating, the exhibit displays over 300 objects (art and artifacts) along...

Czech artist Alphonse Mucha moved to Paris in 1888, but it was a matter of being in the right place at the right time in 1894 that would change his life. The great French...

It’s official! The Musée du Louvre announced on January 3, 2019 that their attendance of 10.9 million visitors in 2018 surpassed their previous high of 9.7 million in 2012. The increase since 2017 was...

If you will be spending the first weeks of January in Paris, escape the winter chill and make sure you catch these two amazing Picasso exhibits before they close. Picasso arrived with his friend and...

November brings a celebration of photography in Paris— with a number of exciting exhibitions and photography events including the annual Paris Photo extravaganza. Adding to the fun this year was the opening of a...

The innovative new Paris Region Pass (PRP) allows visitors to the French capital to benefit from a single, credit card-sized ticket combining transport, tours and museum visits. Launched at the end of September, this handy...