This autumn, there's no need to choose between art, games and discovery: the Grand Palais brings it all together in one place. So get your curious, dreamy, playful selves ready... and set a course for a great family vacation in the heart of Paris! Here's a sneak preview of what's in store.
What can families do at the Grand Palais right now?
October 3, 2025
This autumn, there's no need to choose between art, science and discovery: the Grand Palais brings them all together for you. So get your curious, your dreamers, your players ready... and discover the program for the coming weeks!
From Paris 1900 to Paris 2024: the Grand Palais and its Nave, an architectural jewel restored right on time to meet sportsmen and women!
July 26, 2024
A regular venue for artistic and cultural events for over a century, the Grand Palais is reopening its majestic restored Nave for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games to become the place for fencing and taekwondo events! And don't forget: this is not the first time the building has been used to host sporting competitions.
While waiting to step inside the restored Grand Palais from June onwards, we invite you to take a virtual tour of its new spaces. Follow us as we explore this legendary monument, where history and modernity meet, for a fictional journey into the heart of its reinvented architecture. Let yourself be guided!
Transparency: an exhibition of light and matter for children
June 10, 2025
The Palais des enfants opens its doors with a playful and poetic exhibition on the theme of transparency! From June 20, 2025 to August 29, 2027, children aged 2 to 10 are invited to awaken their curiosity, hone their scientific critical thinking skills and enjoy sensitive experiences in a journey blending art and science - to be discovered with the whole family.
Mickalene Thomas at the Grand Palais: an ode to love and black beauty!
December 17, 2025
It’s happening today! The exhibition All About Love opens its doors. With flamboyant portraits, self-assured bodies and bold expressions of femininity, Mickalene Thomas celebrates the beauty of Black women at the Grand Palais. A joyful and committed retrospective, on view until 5 April 2026.
On the occasion of the exhibition devoted to Nan Goldin at the Grand Palais until June 21, 2026, Alice Leroy, teacher-researcher and film critic, offers a series of texts exploring her work through the prism of cinema. This text focuses on the way her slideshows reinvent montage as an open form, between memory, music and moving images.
Nan Goldin, Self Portrait at New Year’s Eve, Malibu 2006 in Memory Lost
