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
The Russian avant-garde in the Costakis collection
From 13th November 2008 to 2th March 2009
Since the memorable exhibition "Paris-Moscow" organised in 1989 at the Centre Georges Pompidou, no other global vision of this highly modern and fertile artistic movement has been presented in Paris.
The prestigious and mythic Costakis collection will be shown for the first time in France. This private collection, which includes 1,300 works, is the world's most important body of Russian abstract art and is housed today in the Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art. It was painstakingly assembled by a passionate and knowledgeable enthusiast, a Greek man who had spent almost all his life in Moscow.
Through more than 200 works, the Musée Maillol with present its essential and most surprising pieces, including examples by famous artists such as Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Tatline, Popova, as well as lesser known artists, and some never shown in France, such as Kudriashev, Redko, Anders, Nikritin ...
PARTNERSHIP OFFER
Admission 6 € reduced from 8 € on presentation of a Thalys ticket, Cybelys card or Ticketless card
5% reduction in the museum bookshop on presentation of your Thalys ticket, Cybelys card or Ticketless card
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Musée Maillol
61, rue de Grenelle
75007 – Paris
Tel. 01 42 22 22 92
Fax 01 45 44 37 09
