The Pompidou is shut for renovation until about 2030. In the meantime, the big shows have moved to a restored glass palace and a grain exchange rebuilt in concrete.
The Centre Pompidou closed in September 2025 for about five years. Paris's modern-art crowd now heads for three other buildings.
The Grand Palais, built for the 1900 World's Fair, reopened in 2025 after a long restoration. Its iron-and-glass nave is the largest in Europe, and its galleries host the season's headline exhibitions, including a major Cézanne show running into January 2027.
Near Les Halles, the round Bourse de Commerce was an 18th-century grain market, then a stock exchange. Tadao Ando set a concrete cylinder inside its painted dome to house the Pinault Collection of contemporary art (€15, closed Tuesday).
To make a trio, take the Métro west to Frank Gehry's glass-sailed Fondation Louis Vuitton in the Bois de Boulogne.
An art day across the Right Bank, Wednesday to Monday.
Book the first slot of the day for the main exhibition.
Look up at the restored nave, then out to the Pont Alexandre III.
Walk through the gardens and the Tuileries, or take Métro line 1 to Louvre–Rivoli.
Walk the ring between Ando's concrete wall and the old painted dome.
Finish under Gehry's glass sails, a Métro and shuttle ride west.
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Grand Palais: Métro Champs-Élysées–Clemenceau. Bourse de Commerce: Métro Louvre–Rivoli or Les Halles.
Book timed tickets online for both; popular shows sell out on weekends.
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