From 16 June 2023 to 7 September 2025
© Peter Knapp
To coincide with the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris in 2024, the Palais Galliera is exploring the theme of the body in movement and the links between fashion and sport, from the 18th century to the present. Running until 7 September 2025, this fascinating exhibition features almost 200 works, including silhouettes, outfits, accessories, posters, photographs, and audiovisual documents.
It establishes a dialogue between clothing designed for physical activity and everyday clothing, examining the social evolution of sportswear, its specialization, the adaptation of women's clothing for physical activity and the incorporation of sportswear into our everyday wardrobes. It also shows the evolution of the athletic body and its impact on mindsets and standards of beauty.
Exceptional loans from various institutions provide an exciting perspective on the Palais Galliera's collections. Three successive exhibitions will enable visitors to discover new items at each show.
Opening times: from 10am. to 6pm. From 10am to 9pm Thursday. Closed Monday.
© Paris Musées - GM pour Palais Galliera
There is more to the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris (City of Paris Fashion Museum) than its amazing collections. It is an architectural marvel with many secrets.
The Duchess of Galliera had the palace built between 1879 and 1894 to share her love of beauty with as many people as possible. A philanthropist and woman of letters, she possessed a large collection of objets d’art and wanted to showcase them in an appropriate setting. She paid special attention to the design of the garden, the staircases, terraces, fountains, galleries and even the ceilings.
Visitors enter the extensive gardens with sweeping curves, designed in the Italian style according to the wishes of the Duchess, and come to the Renaissance-style building, which also has typically 19th-century features such as monumental windows. Three of them are embellished with statues representing the three major arts; hence architecture, sculpture and painting stand sentinel. Beneath the cut stone of the architecturally innovative Palais Galliera is a metal framework built by Gustave Eiffel. His company, the Compagnie des Etablissements Eiffel, also made the windows, the staircase railings and the gateway leading to the square.
Inside, a rectangular salon d’honneur or formal lounge is the heart of the building, surrounded by three galleries overlooking the square and another room, the petit salon. These five rooms are used for exhibitions. The Palais Galliera served many purposes before being devoted from 1977 onwards to the history of fashion from the 18th century to the present day. More than 200,000 artworks, garments and accessories explore the history of dress codes and fashion across the years.
Useful information
From 10am. to 6pm. From 10am to 9pm on Thursday and Friday. Closed Monday, December 25 and January 1.
10, avenue Pierre Ier de Serbie, Paris 16th
