The Picasso Museum Paris: fascinating temporary exhibitions and an exciting museum building

Highlights

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The world’s largest collection of Picasso’s works
Constantly changing exhibitions from the museum’s inexhaustible collection
Cultural calendar with events throughout the year
Worth seeing Museum Hôtel Salé

Picasso in all his facets – with constantly changing exhibitions

What awaits you on site

Located in the heart of the Marais, in the sumptuous Hôtel Salé, the museum holds the most important Picasso collection in the world. It’s a place in motion, to be seen and revisited!

The Musée Picasso-Paris collection comprises over 5,000 works and tens of thousands of archived pieces. For its quality and scope as well as the range of art forms it encompasses, this collection is the only one in the world to present both Picasso’s complete painted, sculpted, engraved and illustrated œuvre and a precise record—through sketches, studies, drafts, notebooks, etchings in various stages, photographs, illustrated books, films and documents—of the artist’s creative process.

It’s not just the exhibitions that are extravagant – the building is too

The hôtel Salé is probably, as Bruno Foucart wrote in 1985, “the grandest, most extraordinary, if not the most extravagant, of the grand Parisian houses of the 17th century”. The building has seen many occupants come and go over the centuries. However, paradoxically, before the place was entrusted to the museum, it was rarely “inhabited”, but instead leased out to various private individuals, prestigious hosts and institutions.