Modern Art Museum of Paris
The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris—known as the MAM Paris—was inaugurated in 1961, but its building story begins much earlier. It occupies the eastern wing of the Palais de Tokyo, and it was constructed for the International Exhibition of Arts and Technology of 1937, linking the museum to Paris’s long tradition of world fairs and cultural showcases. Today, you’re looking at a major municipal museum of modern and contemporary art, covering the 20th and 21st centuries. Its permanent holdings include about 15,000 works, ranging across movements of the last hundred years and supporting both monographic and thematic exhibitions. The collections include major names such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, and Marcel Duchamp, alongside artists closely associated with modern sculpture and abstraction. A significant recent chapter came in October 2019, when the museum reopened after a €10 million redesign by h2o architectes. …
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