Palace of Tokyo
The Palais de Tokyo is built from a simple geographic fact: its name comes from the street it faces—avenue de New-York, once called Quai Debilly and later Avenue de Tokio from 1918 to 1945. That orientation matters, because the building sits opposite the Trocadéro, with the Avenue de New-York separating it from the Seine. You step into a structure inaugurated on 24 May 1937 by President Lebrun, when it was first known as the Palais des Musées d’art moderne. Today, the eastern wing belongs to the City of Paris and hosts the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, while the western wing moved into a different role: since 2002 it has run the Palais de Tokyo / Site de création contemporaine, France’s largest museum dedicated to temporary contemporary-art exhibitions. …
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