This winter, with the support of Art Exhibitions China, the Musée Guimet is taking visitors on a journey to the heart of Chang'an, the glorious, cosmopolitan capital of the Tang dynasty (618-907).

A cultural and commercial crossroads on the Silk Roads, this sprawling city was the largest in the world in the 8th century.

More than 200 millenia-old exceptional works of art loaned by numerous museums in China's provinces invite visitors to discover this city of wonders, frequented by thousands of merchants, pilgrims, scholars, musicians, artists, craftsmen and court aristocrats from all over the empire and beyond.

From 19 November 2024 to 16 March 2025, the Musée de Cluny - Musée National du Moyen Âge is hosting an exhibition on medieval carved decorations from the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.

Not since the early 1980s have cathedral sculptures in storage at the museum been the subject of such in-depth research. The exhibition "Making Stones Speak. Notre Dame's Medieval Sculptures" vows to deepen our knowledge on these collections by revealing the findings of a major research and restoration programme, underway since 2022.

The curatorial team is spearheaded by Damien Berné, Head Curator at the Musée de Cluny and responsible for sculptures.

An innovative and immersive exhibition

This exhibition will immerge the visitors in the department stores' atmosphere through an immersive scenography, which will recreate these consumption temples' sensory and appealing experience. 
It will display an international overview of their monumental architectures with never seen before collections. The department stores' saga will also be the set of an interactive and playful experience, thanks to devices designed for families.

Curatorship

Isabelle Marquette, heritage curator, 
Elvira Férault, conservation assistant, Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine,
 

Associate Curator

Christelle Lecoeur, architect, teacher-researcher at ENSA Paris-Malaquais (ACS)

• Curatorial Assistant

  Anjali Pasquion Somaradjalou, research officer, Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine

The Petit Palais is presenting the first French retrospective ever devoted to Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652), the terrible heir to Caravaggio, whom his contemporaries considered 'darker and more ferocious' than the great Italian master. Of Spanish origin, he spent his entire career in Italy, first in Rome and then in Naples.

With over a hundred paintings, drawings and prints from all over the world, the exhibition retraces Ribera's entire career for the first time: the intense Roman years, which have only recently been rediscovered, and the ambitious Neapolitan period, which led to his meteoric rise to fame. One thing is clear: Ribera stands out as one of the earliest and boldest interpreters of the Caravaggesque revolution, and beyond that as one of the leading artists of the Baroque age.

Curators

Annick Lemoine, Head Curator, Director of the Petit Palais
Maïté Metz, Curator of Painting and Ancient Graphic Arts, Petit Palais