The tourists are back!
French, foreigners, Ile-de-France residents… Everyone finds their way back to museums.
Other good news: the program is there, both in the capital and in the regions.
We present to you the exhibitions not to be missed this spring.
"Meeting the Little Prince", at the Museum of Decorative Arts
A wonder.
For another two months, the manuscript of Saint-Exupéry is in Paris, at least a part, and its fantastic drawings which take us step by step into the construction of the hero of his universal tale.
Say, draw me the most beautiful exhibition...
Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris, I), until June 26, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., 8 p.m. Saturday Sunday, except Monday, 10-14 euros.
Albert Edelfelt, at the Petit Palais
Portrait of Louis Pasteur, 1885 (Salon of 1886), by the Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt.
© RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) / Martine Beck-Coppola
The feeling of spring.
Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905), a great Finnish painter, friend of Pasteur, whose famous portraits he painted, also attracted crowds for his magnificent landscapes of the Far North.
Reservations are strongly recommended.
Sometimes the expo is sold out, but this weekend, there are still slots.
Petit Palais (Paris, 8th arrondissement), until July 10, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., except Monday, 11-13 euros
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"Machu Picchu and the treasures of Peru", at the City of Architecture
The City of Architecture and Heritage offers a 3D overview of the famous Inca site in the Andes.
© World Heritage Exhibitions
When it is very spectacular, the public agrees to pay the price.
This immersive exhibition, by the American designers of “Tutankhamun” at La Villette, hits hard with even a little helmeted 3D trip above the magic mountain.
The loaned works, an anthology of multiple civilizations that led to the Incas, shine with gold and a thousand lights.
City of architecture and heritage (Paris XVI), until September 5, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., 20-24 euros
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“Pharaoh of the Two Lands”, at the Louvre
King Taharqa and the Hémen falcon, to be discovered at the Louvre Museum, an exhibition which retraces the epic of the pharaohs of the kingdom of Kush.
© Louvre Museum/dist RMN Grand Palais/Christian Décamps
The 25th dynasty, the forgotten of ancient Egypt.
A fascinating exhibition retraces the sixty years of reign of the kingdom of Kush, which encompassed the entire empire with its conquering black pharaohs, who came from the extreme south of the Nile, before being crushed.
Louvre Museum (Paris I), until July 25, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. except Tuesday, 15-17 euros
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Another Maillol,
at the Musée d'Orsay
Aristide Maillol, Profile of a Woman, around 1896. Because yes, the man was not only a sculptor... Musée d'Orsay, Dist.
RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
Rodin had taken all the light.
Aristide Maillol, the other great French sculptor of the 20th century comes out of oblivion with a retrospective that reveals his beginnings as a painter, his taste for tapestry and ceramics, and his monumental female divinities which made the author of " Mediterranean” the symbol of solar sensuality.
Musée d'Orsay (Paris VIIe), until August 21, 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. except Monday, 11-14 euros
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Rome, Venice, Vivian Maier… Exhibitions to discover in the regions
Rome, the City and the Empire,
at the Louvre-Lens.
As part of their temporary closure at the Louvre, the collections of ancient Rome are moving to the Lensois little brother.
But it is above all a masterful demonstration of Roman art over several centuries, like a best of.
We are particularly fascinated by the way of sculpting the curly hair with the extraordinary volume of the athletes and great men of Rome.
Louvre-Lens (Pas-de-Calais), until July 25, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. except Tuesday, 6-11 euros.
Venice, the most serene,
at the Carrières de Lumières.
Summer is the big crowd.
Les Baux-de-Provence in the spring, we breathe better, and the Carrières prefigured the success of immersive exhibitions on painting, as there are in Paris and Bordeaux.
The original place presents a new show around Tintoretto, Bellini or Canaletto, and Italian movie stars.
Carrières des Lumières in Baux-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), until January 2, 2023, 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., 12-14.50 euros.
Vivian Maier,
in Quimper and Pont-Aven.
The former anonymous photographer, nanny whose wonderful images were discovered after her death, offers herself in majesty.
The museums of Pont-Aven and Quimper have joined forces to bring together in two nearby places – and ideal for a holiday or a long weekend – 250 photos of the American who was one of the queens of street photography. , without ever showing his work.
A genius hobby.
Museum of Fine Arts in Quimper and Museum of Pont-Aven (Finistère), until May 29, 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., 5 euros, information on the two exhibitions
by clicking here
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