by Tom Gurney
Tom Gurney BSc (Hons) is an art history expert with over 20 years experience
Published on July 14, 2026 / Updated on July 16, 2026
Email: tomgurney1@gmail.com / Phone: +447429011000
East facade of Grand Palais, Paris September 2013.jpg by Cristian Bortes from Cluj-Napoca, Romania; CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped for TheHistoryOfArt.org. · Image source
Current and upcoming exhibitions
These exhibitions are placed high on the page because they are the clearest reason to plan a visit around this museum now.
About Grand Palais
Grand Palais in Paris, FR, is a useful starting point for paris exhibition venue for large-scale national and international art projects, with Cezanne reception history, late Matisse and Hilma af Klint abstraction as first guide anchors. The 3 attached exhibitions help the page work both as a collection guide and as a practical route into what is on now.
For a first visit, build the route around large temporary exhibitions, modern art, nineteenth-century reception history, twentieth-century late style, cut-outs, abstraction, women artists, GrandPalaisRmn production, Paris cultural programming and exhibition history. Artists especially worth slowing down for include Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Hilma af Klint, Maurice Denis, Ambroise Vollard and modern and contemporary artists responding to Cezanne. Current and upcoming exhibitions can then help decide what deserves priority on the day.
Plan around current exhibitions
Current and upcoming exhibitions are one of the clearest reasons to visit or revisit the museum now. A visitor may arrive here from the museum name, from an artist search, or from the exhibitions table; either way, the page should make the live programme easy to understand before sending readers to official venue details.
Sources and further reading
Use these official museum pages, object records and exhibition sources to check details and keep exploring.
- Home
Core venue source - Cezanne and Us
Dedicated exhibition source - Matisse: 1941-1954
Dedicated exhibition source - Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Temple (1906-1915)
Dedicated exhibition source
How to use this guide
Before travelling, check Grand Palais directly for opening hours, temporary closures, access arrangements and ticketing. This page avoids precise pricing by design, because prices and discounts change more often than the art-historical content. The stable value is route planning: what to see, why it matters, and which related pages are worth opening next.
