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!
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!
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.
Royal tapestries: a never-before-seen commission revealed at the Grand Palais
July 15, 2025
16 monumental tapestries, imagined by Danish artists and woven in France, are exceptionally reunited in Paris before reaching their final destination: Koldinghus Castle in Denmark. This unique royal commission is currently on display in the heart of the monument.
Watch now: inside the monumental restoration of the Grand Palais
July 2, 2025
An extraordinary project, an emblematic building, human adventures: for almost four years, director Stefan Cornic followed the major stages in the restoration of the Grand Palais, camera by hand. The result? An immersive, sensitive documentary, Les métamorphoses du Grand Palais, available now for replay on France.tv.
Vue de la Nef Nord, depuis le centre de la Nef, Décembre 2021
The Grand Palais sports chronicles: Top 5 sporting events at the Grand Palais
August 26, 2024
From fencing halls to basketball courts — even skateparks — the Nave of the Grand Palais has hosted a variety of sporting events, reflecting the growing enthusiasm for new sports practices in the 2000s. Let’s look back at 5 bold sporting moments that paved the way for the Grand Palais to become an Olympic venue in 2024.
