Decorative ExhibitionDecorative ExhibitionLe Marais
Step inside a 16th-century Marais mansion where centuries of Paris history live in leather-bound volumes, antique maps, and fading photographs. The hushed reading rooms and hidden garden make research feel like time travel.
Tips
June 12
A 1970 photo competition captured 30,000 color slides and 70,000 black-and-white prints of a vanishing Paris. This exhibition resurrects that archive for the first time, inviting you to wander through neighborhoods frozen in time.
June 12
See 1970s Paris through the eyes of the people who lived it. This free exhibition at the Bibliothèque historique showcases candid photographs taken by everyday Parisians, capturing a decade of street life, protests, and quiet moments.
Le MaraisOpen
Decorative ExhibitionDecorative ExhibitionStep inside a 16th-century Marais mansion where centuries of Paris history live in leather-bound volumes, antique maps, and fading photographs. The hushed reading rooms and hidden garden make research feel like time travel.
Tips
June 12
A 1970 photo competition captured 30,000 color slides and 70,000 black-and-white prints of a vanishing Paris. This exhibition resurrects that archive for the first time, inviting you to wander through neighborhoods frozen in time.
June 12
See 1970s Paris through the eyes of the people who lived it. This free exhibition at the Bibliothèque historique showcases candid photographs taken by everyday Parisians, capturing a decade of street life, protests, and quiet moments.