A la Une
Art Paris + Guests
March 18 - 22 2010
Exhibition
The Nave
The artistic event of the spring, Art Paris is back at the Grand Palais with a new concept. Art Paris draws on the strength of the network of Paris galleries that are such active players on the international art market. This fair gives them the opportunity to create "an event within the event" by joining up with partners - "Guests" - or other international galleries, foundations, collectors, and even designers, writers, film directors, architects, fashions designers, musicians, and top chefs... Art Paris + Guests aims to become a place to meet and exchange ideas, reflecting the vitality of the Paris art market and the French art scene.
With Art Paris + Guests, placing the emphasis on invention and crossover, gallery owners and their guest partners or co-producers become the exhibition's associate commissioners. The glass roof of the Grand Palais sheds a new light on the range and strength of the Paris art scene.
Daily from 11 am to 8 pm - Monday, March 22 until 6 pm
Entrance fee : 20 € - 10 € for artists and students
See the event in the History part
See the exhibition website
With Art Paris + Guests, placing the emphasis on invention and crossover, gallery owners and their guest partners or co-producers become the exhibition's associate commissioners. The glass roof of the Grand Palais sheds a new light on the range and strength of the Paris art scene.
Daily from 11 am to 8 pm - Monday, March 22 until 6 pm
Entrance fee : 20 € - 10 € for artists and students
See the event in the History part
See the exhibition website
Turner and his painters
February 24 2010 - May 24 2010
Exhibition
Les Galeries nationales du Grand Palais
Throughout his very long career, the deeply original British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) drew inspiration from works by both old masters and contemporaries. Turner was often uneasy, fussy and even deliberately competitive, but these relationships with his predecessors and peers was always productive, fuelling his progress along his most demanding path.
The "Turner and his painters" exhibition retraces and illustrates the development of Turner's very personal vision, through the many chance or deliberate, but always opportune and enriching interaction that influenced his remarkable career. Nearly 100 paintings and other graphic works (studies and engravings) from major British and American collections, as well as the Louvre and the Prado will be on show.
Open: 9 am to 10 pm Friday to Monday; 9 am to 2 pm on Tuesday, 10 am to 10 pm on
Wednesday, 10 am to 8 pm on Thursday. Close on May 1st
Admission: € 11 - concession €8 (visitors aged 13-25, job seekers, large families)
See the exhibition website
The "Turner and his painters" exhibition retraces and illustrates the development of Turner's very personal vision, through the many chance or deliberate, but always opportune and enriching interaction that influenced his remarkable career. Nearly 100 paintings and other graphic works (studies and engravings) from major British and American collections, as well as the Louvre and the Prado will be on show.
Open: 9 am to 10 pm Friday to Monday; 9 am to 2 pm on Tuesday, 10 am to 10 pm on
Wednesday, 10 am to 8 pm on Thursday. Close on May 1st
Admission: € 11 - concession €8 (visitors aged 13-25, job seekers, large families)
See the exhibition website
What the dinosaurs ate
December 10 2009 - May 2 2010
Exhibition
Le palais de la Découverte
This new exhibition, stunningly set in a spectacular décor with animated, life-size dinosaurs, will thrill adults and children alike! Dinosaurs are back at the Palais de la découverte. This time visitors will be invited to play the role of the palaeontologist and examine the dietary habits of the strange giants that once roamed the planet. "Vegetarian" dinosaurs thrived on plants but, without grass to feed on, what exactly did they eat? The observation of highly realistic animated models, reconstructed life-size skeletons, and reconstituted archaeological digs with a live demonstration of how dinosaur bones are uncovered are all part of the trail.
Numerous species will be up for scrutiny, from the brachiosaurus to the edmontosaurus, not to forget the tyrannosaurus, the velociraptor, and other stars of the dinosaur age… The dietary behaviour of the oviraptor is specifically spotlighted. This is the only dinosaur whose favourite foods remain a mystery. Throughout the exhibition would-be palaeontologists will be offered a number of sometimes contradictory clues and invited to come to their own conclusions.
Open Tuesday to Saturday: 9:30 am - 6:00 pm, (last entrance at 5:30 pm)
Sundays and public holidays: 10:00 am - 7:00 pm, (last entrance at 6:30 pm)
Closed Mondays except December 21 and 28 (opening times 10:00 am - 6:00 pm) and on January 1, May 1, July 14, August 15 and December 25.
Full price: 7 €; Reduced price: 4.50€; free for children under 5;
Additional fee for planetarium: 3.50€; Additional fee for some workshops: 1.50 €
Voir le site de l'exposition
Numerous species will be up for scrutiny, from the brachiosaurus to the edmontosaurus, not to forget the tyrannosaurus, the velociraptor, and other stars of the dinosaur age… The dietary behaviour of the oviraptor is specifically spotlighted. This is the only dinosaur whose favourite foods remain a mystery. Throughout the exhibition would-be palaeontologists will be offered a number of sometimes contradictory clues and invited to come to their own conclusions.
Open Tuesday to Saturday: 9:30 am - 6:00 pm, (last entrance at 5:30 pm)
Sundays and public holidays: 10:00 am - 7:00 pm, (last entrance at 6:30 pm)
Closed Mondays except December 21 and 28 (opening times 10:00 am - 6:00 pm) and on January 1, May 1, July 14, August 15 and December 25.
Full price: 7 €; Reduced price: 4.50€; free for children under 5;
Additional fee for planetarium: 3.50€; Additional fee for some workshops: 1.50 €
Voir le site de l'exposition
Grand Palais' News
Jean Paul Cluzel's mission: three task forces set up
As part of the mission entrusted to him by the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the Minister of Culture and Communication, Frédéric Mitterrand, Jean-Paul Cluzel, President of the Grand Palais and of the board of directors of the Réunion des musées nationaux (RMN), has invited leading personalities to take part in three task forces, exchanging and discussing their ideas and experience, and the potential of the Grand Palais / RMN project.
Nominations
Jean-Paul Cluzel as the new president of the EPGPCE (Etablissement public du Grand Palais des Champs Elysées), the Grand Palais management body.
At the proposal of Jean-Paul Cluzel, President of the Etablissement public du Grand Palais, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication has appointed Fabrice Lacroix as Secretary General of the Grand Palais.
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At the proposal of Jean-Paul Cluzel, President of the Etablissement public du Grand Palais, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication has appointed Fabrice Lacroix as Secretary General of the Grand Palais.
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2009/2010 Season at the Grand Palais
Honey is harvested for the first time at the Grand Palais
The first honey harvest at the Grand Palais has yielded 50 kg (110 1lb.).
The experiment has been so successful that the Grand Palais management body, the EPGPCE have decided to add three new hives in the spring of 2010, and Grand Palais honey will go on sale in the autumn of 2010.
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The experiment has been so successful that the Grand Palais management body, the EPGPCE have decided to add three new hives in the spring of 2010, and Grand Palais honey will go on sale in the autumn of 2010.
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The Grand Palais launches its iPhone application
Available for free downloads from the Apple Store: the Grand Palais application invites you to learn about the history of the building, life behind the scenes and milestone events!
Business report 2007-2008
The Grand Palais is publishing its first business report, spanning the period from the setting up of the building's new management body, the EPGPCE, in May 2007 till December 2008. During this time, excellent attendance levels were recorded, rewarding an inventive and challenging programme of events, supported by a restoration and development plan to optimise the building's great potential, and new communication instruments designed to enhance the visibility, prestige and popularity of the Grand Palais worldwide.
Tuesdays in the Grand Palais
Starting on November 25 2008, in partnership with the publishers PUF (Presses universitaires de France), the Grand Palais is introducing a new event that will be open to all: "Tuesdays in the Grand Palais". From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., every Tuesday evening the general public will be invited to attend and join in these weekly debates.
Grandpalais.fr won the FWA (Favourite Website Award) on August 30 2008
On August 30 2008 the virtual tour of the Grand Palais won the FWA (Favorite Website Award Site of the Day). This international prize is awarded in recognition of the most innovative and creative Web sites. It is a great reward for the twenty members of the project team who, for six months, worked their way through thousands of calculations, photos and drawings.
A look behind the scenes at the making of the virtual tour of grandpalais.fr
The Grand Palais was built in three years, but how long did it take to reconstruct it in 3D computer imagery? From photos to three-dimensional modelling via calculations, lighting and some unexpected challenges, Quadriges explains a technological and artistic achievement: the making of the virtual tour, step by step.
Changing of the colours
May 2008
A major landmark in the Paris skyline at night, the French flag flies proudly on the roof of the Grand Palais. Victim of the vagaries of the weather, it has just been changed. This is always an impressive sight, some 200 feet above ground at the top of the glass roof.
A major landmark in the Paris skyline at night, the French flag flies proudly on the roof of the Grand Palais. Victim of the vagaries of the weather, it has just been changed. This is always an impressive sight, some 200 feet above ground at the top of the glass roof.
