PALAIS DE TOKYO
13, avenue du Président Wilson,
75 116 Paris
OPENING HOURS
From 12 noon to 12 midnight every day except Tuesday
Closed annually on January 1, May 1 and December 25
Special closing time of 18.00 on December 24 and 31
CONTACT
Visitor reception : 01 81 97 35 88
Administrative reception – from monday to friday 9:30 to 17:30 : +33 (0)1 47 23 54 01
HOW TO GET HERE
Subway (Métro), bus, RER
Metro: line 9 / Iéna and Alma Marceau stations
RER : line C / Pont de l’Alma station
Bus : routes 32, 42, 63, 72, 80, 92
Vélib’ : Locate a docking station with Vélib’
ADMISSION CHARGES
Rate: 10€
Reduced rate: 8€ – Visitors under 26 years old, teachers, seniors, house artists, groups of more than 10 people, and members of partner institutions Tokyopass
Free admission : Under 18 years-old, job seekers, those in receipt of income support, Ministry of Culture and Communication, ICOM, IKT, journalists, lecturer-guides, teacher pass, those in receipt of pension credit, registered disabled person and accompanying person (on presentation of documentation no more than three months old).
Season Pass : 20€, free access to all the exhibitions an events of the season
Palais de Tokyo was created in 2002: Its liveliness, joyfulness, and adventurous approach made Paris sit up and take notice. As an anti-museum par excellence, a rebellious undeveloped plot in the 16th arrondissement, a offbeat yet ambitious “palace”, a place for exchanges and surprises, it was the pioneer of a movement of reconciliation between the City of Light and contemporary art. It has been emulated as a model and for its programming well beyond the frontiers of France, both among specialists, art-lovers, and the wide public.
Following on from these years of success, in 2012 Palais de Tokyo became one of the largest sites devoted to contemporary creativity in Europe, its surface area rising from 8,000 sq. m. to 22,000 sq. m. It now extends right to the River Seine, forming a link on the side of the hill between the Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées. Its success, its spirit of adventure, and these new spaces made available to artists, their gestures, and their ways of looking increase our capacity to perceive, imagine, and open up new paths.
Today, the expansion of its premises and its mission provides Palais de Tokyo with an opportunity to rethink the role of cultural institutions in view of the permanent speeding up of our lives. It becomes a place where we can come face to face with the art of our time. A place that was born from its contradictions, is inhabited by them and has grown up among them. Magical yet violent, poetic and transgressive, sensual yet meditative, huge yet intimate, public yet secret – a place where they know how to be enthusiastic without pontificating, relaxed and at the same time attentive, thorough yet accessible, where they work not on art but with art, and where art works on us.
This enhanced Palais de Tokyo will become a destination with broad spaces that are as mobile as the lives that pass through them. A permanent landing stage moored by the river, a terraced garden with branching pathways, a utopia on the move, an interface whose inhabitants and visitors live simultaneously within and outside the codes of the city, of “culture”, of everyday life. A territory offering present-day explorers the modest but crucial opportunity to sample the pulsation and flavors of what is emerging, finally allowing us to keep pace with the audacities of our own epoch.
