The Modern Art Museum located in the eastern wing of the Palais de Tokyo and constructed for the International Exhibition of Arts and Technology of 1937, the museum was inaugurated in 1961. The museum collections include more than 8,000 works from art movements of the 20th century. Exhibitions highlight the European and international art scenes of the 20th century, as well as displaying monographic and thematic exhibitions of trends in today’s art. Temporary exhibitions run every six weeks.
The museum’s permanent collection includes works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Raoul Dufy, Maurice de Vlaminck, Georges Rouault, Fernand Léger, Georges Braque, Francis Picabia, Amedeo Modigliani, Giorgio de Chirico, Kees van Dongen, Pierre Bonnard, Chaïm Soutine, André Derain, Suzanne Valadon, Maurice Utrillo, André Lhote, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, František Kupka, Juan Gris, Hans Bellmer, René Iché, Jean Fautrier, Victor Brauner, Jean Arp, Alberto Giacometti, Yves Klein, Pierre Soulages, Nam June Paik, John Heartfield, Wolf Vostell, Robert Rauschenberg, Hannah Höch, and others.
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