Palais de Tokyo Museum of Modern Art

Located in the 16th arrondissement, near the Iéna metro stop, the Paris City Museum of Modern Art (Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris) is housed in the massive Palais de Tokyo, once built Built for the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1937, so the French often call this museum by the common name "Palais de Tokyo" (Tokyo Palace).

In terms of works of art, this museum inherited the modern collection of the Petit Palais museum, after the city of Paris decided to reorganize the entire structure of museums. Since the Petit Palais was no longer large enough to display the collections dedicated to Paris according to the will, the City's Museum of Modern Art officially opened in 1961 and operates to this day.

During more than a year of renovation, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris only partially closed its galleries and maintained a permanent collection of more than 800 works of the twentieth century including paintings, sculptures, art installations, furniture, decorative items... Permanent collection of 15,000 works

At the Petit Palais as well as at the Paris Museum of Modern Art, the permanent collection is free at all times, with only thematic exhibitions on sale. This restoration has expanded the exhibition area and upgraded the exhibition halls with many new technology applications.

On this occasion, the director Fabrice Hergott took from the archive (including more than 15,000 works of all kinds of different schools such as Fauvism, Cubism, Radial, Ultimate or Neoplastic...) The painting has rarely been displayed since the museum's founding in 1961. For example, Robert Delaunay's entire collection of paintings of the Eiffel Tower in delicate colors in the style of ''orphisme'', a branch of cubism. In addition, there is a set of more than two hundred paintings by Raoul Dufy, each of which is only 2 meters by 1.2 meters, but when put together, it gives birth to a "fresco" of nearly 2 meters wide. 600 square meters.

The Art-Déco exterior architecture of the "Palace Tokyo" (Palais de Tokyo) plus the use of light inside the new exhibition spaces add to the appeal of the famous works. On this point alone, the Paris City Museum of Modern Art is even more worth seeing because of its many valuable paintings such as Henri Matisse's masterpiece ''La Danse'', ''Le Nu dans le bain''. and Pierre Bonnard's 'Le Jardin', André Derain's 'La Rivière', Fernand Léger's 'Les Disques', André Lhote's 'L'Escale', 'L'Oiseau bleu' by Jean Metzinger, portraits of Édouard Vuillard along with famous works of many other painters such as André Derain, Jean Puy, André Arbus, Pierre Chareau…. Exhibition on "Lyric abstraction" school

If the free collection is still not enough, guests who love pure painting can still buy tickets to see more thematic exhibitions from mid-January to March 2020 dedicated to the dual French artist. - Duc Hans Hartung (1904-1989), a great name of the painting village, is considered as one of the founders of the abstract lyrique painting school.

During the restoration, the museum only attracted about half a million visitors within a year. But now with additional exhibitions as well as "permanent" works that are rarely popular, the City Museum of Modern Art of Paris (Palais de Tokyo) has ambitions to reach the 4 million mark. number of visitors each year, making it to the list of the top 10 most visited museums in the world.

Address: 13 Avenue du Président Wilson, 75016 Paris, France

Opening hours: Daily 12:00–00:00 (Tuesday off)

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Phone: +33 1 81 97 35 88