The Grand Palais reopens: a free summer under the glass roof for Paris 2025
Art is no longer just a museum experience. With its summer reopening, the Grand Palais is transforming its programming into a cultural manifesto. A direct response to the demand foraccessible, festive and inclusiveevents.
The Grand Palais reinvents itself for summer
Closed since 2021 for renovation, the emblematic monument will reopen on June 6, 2025. Its mission: to bring together all publics. The strategy is clear: everything free, all summer long.
Until August 31, 2025, the institution is rolling out an extensive program. Exhibitions, concerts, installations and popular dances. All will take place under the glass roof, in a spirit of sharing and discovery.
An instantaneous scenography
Works no longer hang on walls. They are installed in space. Artist Ernesto Neto takes over the nave with a monumental textile structure: “Nosso Barco Tambor Terra”. A call to slowness and contemplation.
Right next door, “Euphoria: Art is in the Air” offers an interactive inflatable course. The idea is to make art physical and playful, without barriers or elitist discourse.
A summer under the sign of Brazil
In a nod to the France-Brazil 2025 Season, the Grand Palais gives Brazilian artists a voice. With “Horizontes”, contemporary painting takes on color and opens up to the world.
The highlight? The Grand Bal BrasilBrésil, scheduled for July 5, 2025. A popular event where samba meets Kiddy Smile DJ sets. Paris will dance under the palm trees, without leaving the Champs-Élysées.
Culture as a common good
This comeback is not limited to the spectacular. The Fun Palace, a space for debate and workshops, asks an essential question: How can we live together? A citizen’s initiative, open to all.
Another new feature is free access to all major exhibitions. A strong signal in a capital where culture is often not free. Here, the experience is unfiltered, with no queues.
A new era for the Grand Palais
This free program marks the start of a more profound transformation. The Grand Palais wants to become a living, permanent, porous place. More than a museum: a crossroads of ideas and festivities.
By showing without imposing, it creates a new relationship with the public. A way of reconciling institution and spontaneity, culture and pleasure, heritage and future.
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