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Fine Arts Exhibition
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Palais de Tokyo

Opens Wednesday at 12:00 PM

At Palais de Tokyo

Champs-Elysées, Paris

🗼Stunning Eiffel Tower views from the esplanade
🛹Skateboarders use the marble courtyard as a park
📚"sparks your curiosity" — visitor review

Palais de Tokyo is Europe's largest contemporary art center, but it feels nothing like a traditional museum. Housed in a raw, stripped-back concrete building from the 1937 World's Fair, it stays open until 10 PM most nights and midnight on Thursdays, drawing night owls into sprawling industrial halls filled with rotating installations, graffiti murals, and performance art. The marble esplanade doubles as a skate park with Eiffel Tower views, while underground passages hide the ever-evolving Lasco street art project.

industrial architecture
late-night art
rotating exhibitions
underground street art
Free

Upcoming events

Tuesday, Aug 25
Exposition monographique de Pauline Curnier Jardin

Exposition monographique de Pauline Curnier Jardin

August 25

Champs-Elysées

Contemporary ritual & film

En famille au Palais de Tokyo

En famille au Palais de Tokyo

August 25

Champs-Elysées

Kids' creative workshop

Chalisée Naamani

Chalisée Naamani

August 25

Champs-Elysées

Sculptural body exploration

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