Via September 4
Each Thursday night, take pleasure in free Summer season Nocturnes on the Palais de Tokyo (13 avenue du Président Wilson, sixteenth arrondissement) from 7pm to midnight. Entry all exhibitions free of charge, together with immersive exhibits by Vivian Suter, RAMMELLZEE, Thao Nguyen Phan, and Chalisée Naamani.
Via September 7
The annual open-air summer season concert events within the Bois de Vincennes’s Parc Floral embody the free Paris Jazz Competition (with French and worldwide jazz concert events) and the free Classique au Vert that includes up-and-coming classical music ensembles and orchestras. Even when concert events are free; entry to the park is €2.70 (free for youths underneath 7). Sensible information on the right way to get there right here.
Via September seventh and 14th
Two of the three swimming spots on the Seine will keep open previous the unique August thirty first closure date: the Bras Grenelle (Quai de Grenelle, 15th arrondissement) is a family-friendly website with a shallow swimming space (60m/197ft x 20m/65ft) with floating pontoons, a shaded solarium, and entry to free kayaking close by. It has a capability of 200 individuals (150 within the water). There are lifeguards, showers, restrooms, altering areas, and lockers in your garments. Open Mon–Fri 10am–5:30pm; Sat 10am–4:45pm; Solar 10am–midday, 12:30pm–2:15pm, and 4:45pm–5:30pm by means of September seventh, and the Quai de Bercy (12th arrondissement), the biggest swim space, positioned under Bercy Park throughout from the BnF (Mitterrand Nationwide Library) with a capability for 700 individuals (300 within the water), a solarium deck, altering rooms, restrooms, and a staffed first assist submit. That is in all probability the least “photogenic” of the swimming areas, however you’re near Bercy Village (subsequent to Bercy Park) and the floating péniche bars throughout the river on the Quai François Mauriac (13th arrondissement), each widespread hangouts for the locals. It has two fully-enclosed swimming pools to separate swimmers from the boating visitors: one 35m/115ft x 12.5m/41ft and a second at 67m/220ft x 11m/36ft. This spot will stay open till September 14th from 8am-8pm, and the weekend of September 20-21.
Via September 7
The Bibliothèque Nationale de France (5 Rue Vivienne, 2nd) presents Le monde pour horizon, a year-long, three-part exhibition showcasing uncommon maps, prints, manuscripts, pictures, costumes, and stage jewellery. Highlights embody Hokusai’s The Nice Wave and Toulouse-Lautrec’s Divan Japonais poster. With rotating displays each 4 months, guests can return for brand new discoveries all year long. Open Tuesday 10am-8pm, Wednesday to Sunday 10am-6pm. Tickets €10, diminished €8.
Via September 13
The Affiliation Française d’Astronomie hosts free stargazing evenings in 21 totally different parks and gardens throughout Paris this summer season. Occasions start at 9pm and run till 1am. The schedule consists of: June 28 – Jardin Federico García Lorca (4th arrondissement), July 4 – Sq. Séverine (Twentieth arrondissement), July 5 – Jardin des Grands Explorateurs (sixth arrondissement), July 11 – Jardin Villemin-Mahsa Jîna Amini (tenth arrondissement), July 12 – Parc André Citroën (fifteenth arrondissement), July 13 – Sq. Louis XIII (4th arrondissement), July 18 – Parc Martin Luther King (seventeenth arrondissement), July 19 – Parc de Choisy (thirteenth arrondissement), July 25 – Bois de Charonne (Twentieth arrondissement), July 26 – Jardin du Ranelagh (sixteenth arrondissement), August 1 – Parc Montsouris (14th arrondissement), August 2 – Jardin d’Éole (18th arrondissement), August 3 – Sq. Louise Michel (18th arrondissement), August 14 – Parc de la Butte Chapeau Rouge (nineteenth arrondissement), August 15 – Parc Monceau (eighth arrondissement), August 16 – Parc des Buttes-Chaumont (nineteenth arrondissement), August 22 – Jardin de Reuilly-Paul Pernin (twelfth arrondissement), August 23 – Parc de Belleville (Twentieth), August 27 – Jardin Shakespeare (sixteenth arrondissement), August 29 – Sq. Léon Serpollet (18th arrondissement), August 30 – Sq. des Arènes de Lutèce (fifth arrondissement), and September 13 – Parc Montsouris (14th arrondissement).
Via September 14
The enduring Olympic Cauldron returns to Paris’s Jardin des Tuileries from June 21 to September 14, rising at sundown till 2am nightly, climate allowing.
Via September 21
Musée d’Artwork et d’Histoire Louis-Senlecq (31 Grande Rue, L’Isle-Adam) presents Trois siècles à L’Isle-Adam, an exhibition showcasing the city’s historical past by means of work, sculptures, watercolors, engravings, classic posters, postcards, and historic images. Guests will discover L’Isle-Adam’s evolution from the 18th century to the mid-Twentieth century. Highlights embody works by artists like Jules Dupré, depictions of the Oise River landscapes, and a spotlight in town’s industrial and leisure historical past. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am-6pm. €6.
September 4th and thirtieth
Two French classics movies will probably be proven with English subtitles hosted by Misplaced in Frenchlation: La Venue de L’Avenir (“Colors of Time”) at Le Balzac Cinema (Rue Balzac) on the 4th, and Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain on the Epée du Bois cinema (Rue Mouffetard) on the thirtieth. See their full schedule and ticketing choices on their web site.
September 5-7
Les Traversées du Marais returns for its eleventh version, remodeling the district right into a three-day cultural competition underneath the theme Engagé·e·s pour la tradition. Over 30 cultural establishments—together with the Centre Pompidou, Archives Nationales, Musée Picasso, Musée Carnavalet, Maison de Victor Hugo, Institut Suédois, Carreau du Temple, and plenty of others—will host free performances, concert events, workshops, exhibitions, readings, movie screenings, and guided excursions. Highlights embody out of doors cinema within the gardens of the Institut Suédois, participatory dance performances at Hôtel de Sully, poetry with Nancy Huston on the Maison de la Poésie, and the Salon Lisons Libres showcasing impartial publishers at Halle des Blancs-Manteaux. Most occasions are free, although some museum actions are ticketed.
September 7 (and each 1st Sunday)
Many museums and monuments in Paris are open for free the primary Sunday of the month. In September, that features the Orsay, Picasso, Cluny, Arts-et-Métiers, Orangerie, Cité de l’Structure, Quai Branly, and the Château Fontainebleau. Make sure to examine every museum’s web site, as some nonetheless require you to have a timed ticket; even when the doorway is free. See the total checklist right here.
September 9-14
Parcours des Mondes returns to the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district for its twenty fourth version showcasing Tribal Artwork, Asian cultures and Archeology. Over 60 galleries alongside Rue Mazarine, Rue de Seine, Rue Bonaparte and aspect streets will current uncommon and engaging works, from artistic endeavors from African, Oceanic, American and Asian cultures. Highlights embody the exhibit Zones de contact exploring the hyperlink between Surrealism and non-Western artwork, and a retrospective of Malian artist Amahiguéré Dolo. Open 11am-7pm, with prolonged hours till 9pm on September tenth. Free entry. Extra information
September 11
Le Meals Market is a month-to-month open-air meals market in Belleville alongside the boulevard between metros Ménilmontant et Couronnes. In contrast to most meals markets, this one isn’t for buying components to take residence and cook dinner up, however is a market of meals stands with cooks from native eating places. This month’s theme is “Better of Paris”. There are seating areas to take a seat and luxuriate in your meals or you’ll be able to order to go. From 6-10:30pm.
September 12-14
Take a look at the 50 greatest meals vehicles of the Paris area on the eighth annual St-Maur Meals Truck Competition. Sure, you must cross the Paris ringroad to the suburbs to get there, however it’s price it! Open Friday 7pm-midnight, Saturday 11am-midnight, and Sunday 11am-6pm. Carry an enormous urge for food.
September 12-21
Village de Cirque #21 brings a vibrant competition of latest circus to the Pelouse de Reuilly (twelfth arrondissement). This system consists of acrobatics, clown acts, workshops, and reside exhibits by high circus troupes like Cirque Queer, La Générale Posthume, and Collectif Malunés.
September 16
As a part of their Evenings with an Creator sequence, the American Library in Paris is internet hosting the discuss, “Ukraine’s Previous, Current, and Future” on how the battle in Ukraine is reshaping Europe and the world, with The Wall Road Journal’s Yaroslav Trofimov and Le Figaro’s Margaux Benn, moderated by Renée Kaplan. Register to attend in -person or watch by way of reside Zoom hyperlink from anyplace on the earth: https://americanlibraryinparis.org/occasion/ukraine25/
September 17-21
Be part of the worldwide motion for a cleaner planet with World Cleanup Day. Residents, corporations, colleges, and communities throughout France will participate on this initiative, organizing cleanups to deal with litter and air pollution. The occasion encourages everybody to become involved and assist create a waste-free atmosphere. For extra particulars, go to the official World Cleanup Day – France web site and click on on the map to search out cleanups in your neighborhood (the white icons are those open to most people). Most present gloves, all present trash luggage and pincers.
September 18-21
The French each day newspaper Le Monde is internet hosting their eleventh annual Competition du Monde at Le Monde headquarters within the thirteenth arrondissement (Avenue de France, subsequent to the Gare d’Austerlitz). A lot of the occasions inside are debates, conferences with the newspapers editorial group, excursions and workshops (all in French, and plenty of already all reserved), however the sq. in entrance of the constructing could have free performances, exhibits, meals vehicles (this yr 100% vegetarian), and cultural occasions open and free to the general public all through the weekend.
September 20-21
This weekend is the forty second annual Journées du Patrimoine, or Heritage Days. Over 350 historic websites will probably be opened to the general public in Paris, many that are solely open for this event. See the full schedule on the web site (an English model is accessible and clearly marked). Some locations require reservations upfront, and others are free to go to with out, however might have lengthy strains. I all the time attempt to discover a number of websites grouped in the identical neighborhood to maximise time. Tickets for the President’s Palace (Palais Elysée) that we visited in 2023 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7CqDfy2Dfo ) are normally gone throughout the hour, however there are numerous different beautiful websites to go to, so don’t get too fixated on the locations everybody else goes. 😉
September 25
La Fête des Puces is an annual night competition on the Puces de Paris St-Ouen (flea market) from 7pm till 11pm. This yr the Marché Biron is celebrating its a hundredth anniversary. Entry is free with invitation, which you may get from any of the collaborating particular person markets or distributors on the flea market (akin to Marché Dauphine or Marché Paul Bert).
September 25-28
One of many final artist open homes for Parisian artist studios, don’t miss this weekend’s Portes Ouvertes des Artistes de Ménilmontant (Twentieth arrondissement). The principle gallery has maps and examples of various artists’ works, Ménils8, 8 rue Boyer, Twentieth, metro Gambetta. Free entry from 2-8pm, a lot of occasions across the neighborhood throughout the competition.
September 26 – October 5
Escape to a bit of island on the sting of Paris for the Foire de Chatou vintage market. Previously referred to as the Foire Nationale à la Brocante et aux Jambons (Ham and Flea Market), this widespread twice-annual market has a mixture of over 800 stands promoting antiques and bric-a-brac, with a complete part devoted to regional French meals, significantly pork in all its varieties. The Ile de Chatou, simply north of Paris, also called the Impressionists Island, is accessible by way of RER A from Charles-des-Gaulle-Etoile station in Paris, then both stroll 5 minutes or take the free shuttle. Open 10am-7pm, entry €10 (free for youths underneath 15).
Via October 12
“Instants Données” is the most recent exhibition on the Musée Maillol that includes 400 rigorously chosen images by the legendary French photographer, Robert Doisneau. Though greatest recognized for his post-card pictures of Paris taken from the Thirties by means of the Eighties, the lovers kissing in entrance of the Hôtel de Ville, the “curved” Eiffel Tower, and even Picasso with “palms” product of petits pains. However he additionally documented the lives of Parisians we don’t usually see on digicam: manufacturing unit employees, poor youngsters taking part in on the street, the homeless, prostitutes, miners, labor unionists on strike, humble café house owners…. I cherished him pictures of the suburbs of Paris, each the pre-war shanty cities and the post-war housing tasks, “every ugly, however in numerous methods”, and the pictures he took of artist and author buddies and their ateliers. Enable a minimum of an hour to completely take pleasure in! Open each day 10:30am-6:30pm (Wednesdays till 10pm). Reserve on-line upfront, tickets €16.50 (€12.50 for ages 6-25).
Via December 13
De Paris à Belém: 10 ans d’actions mondiales pour le climat is a brand new free exhibition on the l’Hôtel de Ville (5 rue Lobau, 4th arrondissement) marking the tenth anniversary of the Paris Settlement (COP21) and looking forward to COP30 in Belém. It options highly effective visuals like a monumental work by Shepard Fairey (Obey) on the façade and placing images by Sebastião Salgado, alongside interactive installations for all ages. The exhibit additionally highlights the function of cities in international local weather motion (learn this interview with the Canadian Cities Guru Brent Toderian concerning the exhibit). A baby-friendly customer path features a booklet and works created by Paris youth. Open Tuesday by means of Saturday. Free admission, however on-line reservation required.
Via January 11, 2026
Paul Poiret, Vogue is a Occasion expo is on on the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (107 rue de Rivoli, 1st arrondissement), open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am–6pm (late opening Thursday till 9pm). Closed Mondays. Admission €15 (€11 diminished). This main retrospective traces the inventive universe of Paul Poiret, the early Twentieth-century designer recognized for liberating girls from corsets and revolutionizing vogue. That includes 550 works—from clothes and equipment to ornamental arts and archival pictures—the present highlights his affect throughout vogue, interiors, perfume, and excessive society festivities, from the Belle Époque to the Roaring Twenties.
Outdoors Paris
Saturdays by means of September 27
Les Soirées aux Chandelles return to Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (an hour southeast of Paris), providing magical evenings lit by 2,000 candles throughout the château and formal gardens. From 5:30pm to midnight, take pleasure in illuminated strolls, baroque music, refined eating choices, carriage rides (additional payment), a particular Le Brun mild projection, and a stunning fireworks present at 11pm. Don’t miss themed nights on June 21 (Fête de la Musique), July 13 (Fête Nationale, costume code: purple & gold), and August 15 (white & gold). Advance reserving required. Tickets: €22 full, €17.50 diminished, €16 backyard solely. Free for kids underneath 4.
