In Paris, art and culture are also freely accessible. Photography, open-air exhibitions, street art, haute couture, immersive experiences… Parisian galleries, parks and museums give you the opportunity to enrich and marvel without emptying your wallet. In the capital, for example, you’ll find museums that are accessible free of charge, and even some activities that you can do without a euro in your pocket! But exactly what free exhibitions are on offer in Paris at the moment? Follow the guide!
Miniature
Not only is this exhibition free of charge, it’s also likely to shake up your senses and your approach to works of art! A Parisian gallery has turned its attention to miniature art, asking 80 artists to create works in miniature format! To admire them properly, you’ll need to get up close to these tiny creations, and even take a magnifying glass!
📍 Location: 14, rue Alexandre Dumas, 75020 Paris
📆 Date: January 23 to March 5, 2025
🎟️ Price: free
Wild Paris
For nature and wildlife lovers, this exhibition is sure to delight! Until the beginning of June, Bercy Village is exhibiting incredible images captured by a wildlife photographer in and around Paris. Paris Sauvage will let you discover the unsuspected animal world that has settled in urban areas!
📍 Location: Cour Saint-Émilion, 75012 Paris
📆 Date: January 16 to June 1, 2025
🎟️ Price: free admission
Happy Days
For the City of Paris, the Olympic Games aren’t quite over yet! The Hôtel de Ville is hosting an exhibition dedicated to this enchanted period! A presentation of cult objects, a photo call on a real Olympic podium, photos of highlights… Les Jours heureux prolongs the Olympic Games effect!
📍 Location: 5, rue de Lobau, Paris, 75004 Paris
📆 Date: from December 21, 2024 to March 1, 2025
🎟️ Price: free with reservation
M.Chat at Galerie Brugier-Rigail
The famous feline Mr. Chat continues to delight walkers! This time, it’s not in the street but in a gallery in the 3rd arrondissement! Large-format paintings are on display until mid-January, allowing you to enjoy the strolls of the most popular street art cat in Paris and beyond!
📍 Address: 40 rue Volta, 75003 Paris
📆 Date: December 17, 2024 – January 17, 2025
🎟️ Admission: free
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre are photographers and urbex experts. For their latest project, with the help of AI, they have created Midjourney, a series of 80 photos depicting Paris completely abandoned in the aftermath of an imaginary catastrophe. Not a single inhabitant, not a single car… Our gaze wanders through this dilapidated, emptied, silent and yet spectacular Paris!
📍 Location: 12, rue Saint-Gilles, 75003 Paris
📆 Date: November 8, 2024 – January 18, 2025
🎟️ Price: free
Seth – Escape Games at Galerie Itinerrance (until February 28, 2025)
La Semeuse de Trouble 2024, Galerie Itinerrance
One of the stars of French street art is on show! Galerie Itinerrance welcomes the works of Seth and his Escape Games exhibition. Conceived as a way of escaping from the anguishing world news, Escape Games brings together works populated by children who will guide visitors towards a more poetic and hope-filled elsewhere!
📍 Location: 24 bis boulevard du Général Jean Simon, 75013 Paris
📆 Date: November 29, 2024 – February 28, 2025
🎟️ Price: free
A free open-air exhibition at the Domaine de Saint-Cloud, for the 30th anniversary of “Drôles de petites bêtes” (Funny little animals)
Antoon Krings has lulled the childhoods of thousands of children with his endearing and colorful “Drôles de petites bêtes” stories. Belle the ladybug, Antonin the chick, Simeon the butterfly and many others will be at the Domaine de Saint-Cloud for a few enchanting months. You’ll be able to admire an ephemeral garden, designed by landscape architect Matthias Colardelle, which will evolve as the year progresses. A great open-air exhibition for the whole family!
📍Location: 1avenuee de la Grille dHonneur,r 92210 Saint Cloud
📆 Date: until January 31, 2025
🎟️ Price: free
A free Nocturne at the Bourse de Commerce
Are you a fan of free nocturnal visits in Paris? In the City of Light, the Bourse du Commerce invites you to exceptional nocturnes every first Saturday of the month!
📍Location: Bourse de Commerce, 2 Rue de Viarmes, 75001 Paris
📆 Date: every first Saturday of the month
🎟️ Price: free
Spot 13: the open-air street art gallery
In a completely different vein, an open-air exhibition of the infinite kind is on offer free of charge in the capital. A veritable open-air gallery, Spot 13 unveils colorful, ever-changing frescoes to street art enthusiasts. Here, urban artists from all horizons dress the bare, concrete walls, giving them soul and color…
📍Location: 48 Allée Paris-Ivry, 75013 Paris
📆 Date: open all year
🎟️ Price: free of charge