PARIS
•• top choices, • other choices / S: small, M: medium, L: large / closed days / (m: Metro stop)
FINE ARTS
>> Musée du Grand Palais (L) Tuesdays
•• Musée du Louvre (XL – most visited museum in the world) Tuesdays / PM>Wed+Fri 21:45
• Musée d’Orsay Mondays (XL – impressionism – notable architecture)
•• Musée National Picasso (M – a classic)
• Musée Rodin (M) Mondays
Musée Maillol (S – art)
Musée d’Art moderne (L – modern art)
CONTEMPORARY ART
• Beaux Arts de Paris 13 quai Malaquais
••• Halle Saint Pierre 18:00 (L – art brut) – 2, rue Ronsard (m: Anvers/Abbesse)
•• Musée de la Chasse [pics] 62, rue des Archives Mon (m: Hotel de Ville)
••• Centre Pompidou Tue (XL) (m: Hotel de Ville
••• Palais de Tokyo Tue café 10pm (XL – contemporary arts – huge & unique space)
••• Pinault Collection Tue (M) 2 rue de Viarmes near Les Halles
•• Fondation Louis Vuitton Tue (L – in the Bois de Boulogne)
•• Fondation Cartier Mondays (M – contemporary arts)
•• Lafayette Anticipations (M) 9, rue du Plâtre, near Pompidou Center (m: Hotel de Ville)
Le plateau rue Carducci @ rue des alouettes (m: ButtesChaumont)
•• MACVAL Mondays (L) Place de la Libération, Vitry-sur-Seine
•• Atelier des Lumières (M) 10-18hr F:>22hr – 38 rue Saint Maur (m: Voltaire, Saint-Ambroise, Père Lachaise)
HISTORY & SCIENCES
•• Musée National du Moyen Age (M – from Roman times to the middle ages) Tuesdays
•• Musée du Quai Branly Mondays (XL – indigenous art)
• Institut du Monde Arabe (M – art of Islam – notable architecture)
Musée national d’histoire naturelle & Jardin des plantes (M) Jussieu-Austerlitz
• Cité des Sciences et de L’Industrie Mondays (hightech science & design exhibits)
ON PARIS
•• Pavillon de l’Arsenal (M – Parisian architecture & urbanism) Mon
• Musée Carnavalet Mondays (M – history & art in Paris) 16 rue des Francs-Bourgeois (M) St Paul
DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, FASHION & MEDIA
>> Arts Deco Mondays (XL – craft, design & fashion)
>> Gaité Lyrique Mondays (M – design & new media) 3, rue Papin (M) Arts et Métiers
• Fondation EDF Mondays (S – on light arts & tech) — 6, rue Récamier (M) Sèvres-Babylone
•• Cité de l’Architecture (L) Trocadero Tue/ThuPM
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
>> Musée du Jeu de Paume (M) Mondays (art & photography)
• Musée des Arts et Métiers (M: science, design & tech) >expos Packaging & Tardi
>> Cité de la Mode et du Design (M: contemp. culture) Tuedays
•• Le Pasquebeau (S – graphic design in Montreuil)
•• BULAC Sundays TYPOGRAPHIAe ARABICAe – 65, rue des Grands Moulins (M:Bibliothèque F. M.)
Le Lieu Du Design (industrial design) 74 rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine
Colette (store, Gallery & café) 213 Rue Saint-Honoré (M) Tuileries
Artcurial (top art-design books + exhibit) 7 rond-point des Champs-Élysées (M) Champs -Élysées
•• Palais Galliera (fashion) Mondays 10 ave Pierre-Ier-de-Serbie near Palais de Tokyo
• Le Cube Sundays+Mondays (new media) 20, Cours Saint Vincent Issy-Les-Moulineaux
Cité de la Musique (all about musique)
Le Philarmonie de Paris (mostly classical, in striking architecture)
Le Luxor : Beautiful movie theater with stunning architecture and indie screenings near Gare de l’Est
GALLERIES
Le plateau rue Carducci @ rue des alouettes (M) ButtesChaumont
galerie schleicher+lange 12, rue De Picardie (M) Arts Et Metiers
Gleichapel 15 rue Debelleyme (M) St Sebastien Froissart
•• Galerie Magda Damysz 78, rue Amelot (M) St Sebastien Froissart
Galerie Perrotin 76, rue de Turenne (M) St Sebastien Froissart + St Paul
Galleries Yvon lambert et Xippas 108, rue Vielle-du-Temple (M) St Paul
great galeries can be found on the rue St-claude (M) St Paul
Praz-Delavallade 28, rue Louise Weiss
ICONIC SITES
>> Flea market of Clignancourt (a city within the city–only on Saturdays and Sundays)
• Eiffel Tower
• Bastille Day
• Belleville (graffiti – artsy- seedy – chinese – etc) ~ (M)Belleville go toward the cafés (or talk to Tara)
• Bassin de la Villette (week ends)
•• Parc de La Villette (one of the largest and most experimental parks in the world)
Sainte-Chapelle (perhaps the most beautiful church in Paris)
Ile de la cité
Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (when seeking miracles –140 rue du Bac)
• passageways (there are dozens of beautiful covered passageways in Paris) discovery walk
• Opera de Paris + Pantheon: an installation by JR — Place du Panthéon (M) Luxembourg
••Musée de la Chasse [pics] 62, rue des Archives Mondays (M)Hotel de Ville
La Patisserie des Reves
Le Printemps (cafeteria on the top floor) + La Samaritaine (historic department store)
•• Père Lachaise cemetery (perhaps the most famous cemetery in the world)
La Défense (a corporate hub that was designed to somehow be a visitor’s magnet)
• Parc de La Villette (one of the largest and most experimental parks in the world)
•• Catacombes de Paris
• 59 RIVOLI (an art collective) — 59 rue de Rivoli (M) Chatelet
Les Gobelins (school of media, art & animation)
NEAR PARIS
>> Versailles Mondays
• Monet’s Giverny
• Enghien-les-Bains
• Espace d’Abraxas
• Fabuloserie
• Noisy-Le-Grand housing projects Espaces d’Abraxas & Les Arènes de Picasso
• Chartes (sons & lumières 2014 + famous for its cathedral and maze)
EVENTS
• Théatre du Rond-Point > Semianyki Express till July 5
• Theatre des Nouveautés
• Shakespeare and Company (standing for Paris as a literary capital) »Bard-en-Seine
• Paris quartier d’été: Opéra comique