1.
To contribute to developing awareness and accessibility of museum collections, primarily from French national museums, by presenting them in the exhibitions and events that they host and organise and contributing to artistic and cultural education in the area of museums and heritage by organizing educational activities for the broadest possible audience;
 
2.
To publish by every means and on every media, scholarly works and related products focusing on the French national collections and ensure that they are made available on the market;

3.
To acquire on behalf of the French State, items of artistic, archaeological, ethnological or historic interest or value for inclusion in State collections entrusted to the safekeeping of the national museums;
 
4.
To play a supporting role in the acquisition processes for national treasures and works of major interest for the national heritage;

5.
To build up a universal photo library bringing together photographic reproductions of the State’s collections entrusted to the safekeeping of the national museums and ensure their conservation, enhancement and availability in digital form;
 
6.
To welcome the public and take in admission fees in national museums under its authority and that do not have the status of independent legal entities, operate their commercial facilities and contribute to developing frequentation. It is also empowered to fulfil these missions on behalf of national museums that do have the status of independent legal entities;
 
7.
To conserve, protect, develop, restore and display the whole of the property entitled "Grand Palais” in connection, where appropriate, with the Etablissement public du palais de la Découverte and the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, as well as the other corporate persons under public and private law exercising a continuous activity in the building;
 
8.
To make the fullest and best use of the available Grand Palais facilities under its responsibility, by hosting, organising or producing any activity or event, notably in the artistic, cultural, scientific and economic fields, in such a way as to increase the prestige and status of France and Paris;
 
9.
To exercise, in any appropriate manner, business activities useful to the fulfilment of its missions.
The organisation must fulfil these missions in such a way as to enable financial independence, and within the framework of the cultural policy set out by the State in a multi-annual contract.