Destinations
France: Paris
In a nutshell...
Paris can be discovered in many different ways. Sightseers can visit the Eiffel Tower, Sacré Cœur, the Montparnasse Tower and the Arc de Triomphe Cultural visits of Paris include the Louvre, the Pompidou Centre, the Grand Palace and the Orsay Museum. Whichever sights you choose, the capital abounds with visual delights.
Fashion capital of the world, Paris also presents style and luxury from the Champs-Elysées to the Rue de Rivoli, where you can visit the Baccarat Museum or the Museum of Fashion and Fabric.
Paris is also every man’s town and quarters such as the old Montmartre or unusual Belleville with their bistros and traditional festivals are symbolic of the village spirit that can be found within this metropolis.
Finally, Paris is a city of fine food where well-known chefs such as Fauchon and Lenôtre are well-established on the Place de la Madeline.
A city to visit, explore and relish!
Paris : Events
Exhibitions and Tours - Easy Listening
"Gainsbourg"
From Tuesday, October 21 2008 to Sunday, March 1 2009
A central icon on the margins.
The Music Museum in Paris is organising a major exhibition dedicated to global icon Serge Gainsbourg. This exhibition comes at the right time, when London and NY pop music is rediscovering his genius, and in Tokyo there is a veritable "gainsbourgmania" going on.
Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991) was one of the first French music performers to embody the modern definition of an "artist". Alternately a painter, writer, poet, composer, actor, director and author, Gainsbourg was unafraid to play on image and representation (of himself in particular) to create music that cuts across the highbrow/lowbrow chasm, blending pop with grand classics without a second thought.
The exhibition sheds a new light on Gainsbourg's particularly protean artistic evolution, with a focus on his ability not only to stay on top of contemporary trends but to be a trend-setter himself. Four distinct eras have thus been thought up to organise this biographical, critical expo: Blue Period (1958 - 1965), Idols (1965 - 1969), Decadance (1969 - 1979), Ecce Homo (1979 - 1991).
From Wednesday 22 to Tuesday 28 October 2008 :
- From Tuesday to Saturday from 12:00 to 20:00
- Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
From Wednesday 29 October 2008 to Sunday 8 February 2009 :
- From Tuesday to Saturday from 12:00 to 18:00
- Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Admission prices :
- Full price : 7 €
- Reduced price : 5.6 €
The Music Museum in Paris is organising a major exhibition dedicated to global icon Serge Gainsbourg. This exhibition comes at the right time, when London and NY pop music is rediscovering his genius, and in Tokyo there is a veritable "gainsbourgmania" going on.
Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991) was one of the first French music performers to embody the modern definition of an "artist". Alternately a painter, writer, poet, composer, actor, director and author, Gainsbourg was unafraid to play on image and representation (of himself in particular) to create music that cuts across the highbrow/lowbrow chasm, blending pop with grand classics without a second thought.
The exhibition sheds a new light on Gainsbourg's particularly protean artistic evolution, with a focus on his ability not only to stay on top of contemporary trends but to be a trend-setter himself. Four distinct eras have thus been thought up to organise this biographical, critical expo: Blue Period (1958 - 1965), Idols (1965 - 1969), Decadance (1969 - 1979), Ecce Homo (1979 - 1991).
From Wednesday 22 to Tuesday 28 October 2008 :
- From Tuesday to Saturday from 12:00 to 20:00
- Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
From Wednesday 29 October 2008 to Sunday 8 February 2009 :
- From Tuesday to Saturday from 12:00 to 18:00
- Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Admission prices :
- Full price : 7 €
- Reduced price : 5.6 €
Metro stop: Porte de Pantin
Bus lines: 75, 151, PC2, PC3
By Car: underground parking at the Cité de la musique
Additional information.
CITE DE LA MUSIQUE - MUSEE DE LA MUSIQUE
221 avenue Jean-Jaures
PARIS 75019
01 44 84 44 84
