الثقافة والتصميم والعمارة

The palace of kings, now the world’s most visited museum, with Pei’s glass pyramid in the courtyard. Closed on Tuesdays; non-EEA adults pay €32. Book a timed slot at opening.

Impressionist masterpieces inside a Beaux-Arts railway station. From 6 October, a major Mary Cassatt exhibition.

Monet’s Water Lilies wrap two oval rooms at the end of the Tuileries. From 30 September, an exhibition on Monet and time.

The free museum of Paris’s history, in two Marais mansions with shop signs, salons and gardens.

Picasso’s own collection in the Hôtel Salé; from 6 October, also a Kurt Schwitters exhibition.

The 1900 iron-and-glass nave, reopened after restoration. “Cézanne and Us” runs to 17 January 2027.

Frank Gehry’s glass sails in the Bois de Boulogne. From 9 October, a major show on the collector Gustave Fayet with Van Gogh, Gauguin and Redon.

Tadao Ando set a smooth concrete cylinder inside an 18th-century grain exchange and its painted dome. From 7 October, “Remember Me”, 700 photographs from the Pinault Collection.

Jean Nouvel’s façade of metal diaphragms, inspired by mashrabiya. The rooftop terrace looks over Notre-Dame. “Vive la mariée!”, on Maghreb wedding traditions, runs to 28 February 2027.

Opened in October 2025 in a former department store facing the Louvre. Nouvel inserted five moving steel platforms that rise and fall to reshape the galleries.

Nouvel’s museum of art from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, behind a green wall by Patrick Blanc.

Nouvel’s shimmering concert hall at the edge of the Parc de la Villette, clad in a pattern of metal birds.

Johan Otto von Spreckelsen’s hollow cube closes the city’s great axis from the Louvre, in the La Défense business district.

Reopened in December 2024 with pale, cleaned stone and a new spire. Entry is free; reserve a time slot to skip the queue. The towers need a separate paid ticket.

A 13th-century chapel that is almost all stained glass. Go on a bright morning.

The opera house of gilded stairs and Chagall’s ceiling; day visits show the grand foyer and auditorium.

Gustave Eiffel’s iron lattice of 1889. Book summit tickets ahead, or simply walk underneath and across the Champ-de-Mars.

Climb to the roof for the star of twelve avenues that meet at Étoile; the clearest lesson in Haussmann’s plan.

The white basilica on top of Montmartre, with wide views over the city from the steps.

Soufflot’s neoclassical temple, now the resting place of France’s great figures, with Foucault’s pendulum under the dome.