For the European Heritage Days, the Bourse de Commerce is opening its doors free of charge, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. (booking required) for the public to explore the historical architecture of the space and to discover the exhibitions on display.
Whether you visit with your family, alone, or with friends, explore the building and discover the cast iron dome—one of the first in France—the machine room, the double helix staircase, and Tadao Ando’s concrete cylinder. Our guides are available in the different spaces of the museum to reveal the history of the building and present its different architectural elements, dating from the sixteenth century to the present day, as well as the works on show.
In the auditorium, a film will take you behind the scenes of the unique site of the Bourse de Commerce, which preceded the opening of the museum in 2021.
With the online app—free of charge and without any required download—listen to the “People of the Bourse” audio tour and immerse yourself in five centuries of history of this iconic building in the Halles district of Paris.
A children’s booklet is available free of charge in the museum Salon.
Guided tours
- Insight tours: guides will provide introductory tours on the history of the building and the exhibitions. .
Tours leave from the Salon every 15 minutes.
- Little Family tours: led by guides, children and accompanying adults will explore, hand in hand, the museum, its history, the works, and their secrets.
Tours leave from the Salon every hour.
Free access (no booking required), subject to availability.
Theme for 2023 : Living Heritage
Spread throughout the Bourse de Commerce building, Avant l’orage [before The Storm] exhibition invites visitors to take a journey from shadow to light, through installations and works from the Pinault Collection - some emblematic, others that are being exhibited for the first time - by some fifteen artists who have transformed the spaces of the Bourse de Commerce. Against a backdrop of climate crisis, in the face of the urgency of the present moment, before the storm breaks again, the artists on show have invented unstable ecosystems featuring new seasons which visitors are invited to explore.
Cosmic movements, changing biotopes, landscapes in transition, atmospheric mappings—these are the practices and knowledge connected to nature and the universe which are explored through the works in the exhibition. A way of highlighting a fragile living heritage that it is our responsibility to protect...
