# Invalides / Eiffel Tower during Paris Art Week 2026

7 art events in Invalides / Eiffel Tower during Paris Art Week 2026 (October 19 – 25, 2026) at Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères – Quai d'Orsay, Galerie Cécile Dufay (Village Suisse) and Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac and more: openings, shows and parties, with times and a map.

- Dates: October 19 – 25, 2026
- Where: Paris, France
- Times: local (CEST)
- Listed: 1 event, plus 6 exhibitions on view
- Page with map, search and favourites: https://artweekguide.com/weeks/paris-2026/areas/invalides-eiffel-tower
- Part of: [Paris Art Week 2026](https://artweekguide.com/weeks/paris-2026)

## Friday 23 October 2026

- **All day** · [AFMO Three Evenings in Paris: French-American friendship cocktail at the Musée Rodin](https://artweekguide.com/events/afmo-three-evenings-in-paris-french-american-friendship-cocktail-at-the-musee-rodin) — Drinks at a private location. A private cocktail hosted by the American Friends of the Musées d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie, marking French-American friendship. It takes place at the Musée Rodin (Hôtel Biron) for the first time, and guests can see the permanent collection. Part of Paris Art Week 2026.

## On view

- **Opens Tue, Oct 20 · until Oct 23** · [PASSAGES – Pas sages (Quai d'Orsay, on the occasion of Art Basel Paris)](https://artweekguide.com/events/passages-pas-sages-quai-d-orsay-on-the-occasion-of-art-basel-paris) — Museum at Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères – Quai d'Orsay, Invalides / Eiffel Tower. An exhibition in the historic salons of the Quai d'Orsay, home of the French foreign ministry, set alongside Art Basel Paris. It mixes historical and contemporary art, design, crafts, heritage objects and diplomatic archives. Co-produced by Thierry Lemaire and Harry Nuriev; entry is free, by reservation.
- **Until Oct 24** · [Quelques traces](https://artweekguide.com/events/quelques-traces) — Show at Galerie Cécile Dufay (Village Suisse), Invalides / Eiffel Tower. A group exhibition of gestural abstract painting at Galerie Cécile Dufay in the Village Suisse, as part of Paris Art Week 2026. It brings together work by Emmanuel Alloy, Nicolas Gagnaire, Annick Mischler and Tayeb Belbachir, and stays on view until 24 October.
- **Until Nov 8** · [Plumes du paradis: Journeys of an extraordinary bird from New Guinea](https://artweekguide.com/events/plumes-du-paradis-journeys-of-an-extraordinary-bird-from-new-guinea) — Museum at Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Invalides / Eiffel Tower. An exhibition at the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac following the birds of paradise of New Guinea across five centuries and through Oceania, Asia and Europe. Nearly 190 works are on show: adornments, paintings by Northern masters, specimens, fashion pieces and illustrated books.
- **Until Nov 14** · [Five Views – La photographie japonaise émergente](https://artweekguide.com/events/five-views-la-photographie-japonaise-emergente) — Museum at Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, Invalides / Eiffel Tower. An exhibition at the Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris presenting five emerging Japanese photographers, each treating a theme as a "world in miniature": memory of the 2011 disaster, family life around the dining table, social structures, the body and performance, and image reproduction. It forms part of the bicentenary of photography.
- **Until Jan 17, 2027** · [Premières Nations: Arts and cultures of the American Northwest Coast](https://artweekguide.com/events/premieres-nations-arts-and-cultures-of-the-american-northwest-coast) — Museum at Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Invalides / Eiffel Tower. An exhibition at the Musée du quai Branly on the First Nations of the North American Northwest Coast. It covers totem poles, house fronts, masks, garments and everyday objects featuring spirit beings such as Raven, across some forty languages and 1,800 km of coastline.
- **Until Jan 31, 2027** · [Voir Tahiti: First photographs 1859–1870](https://artweekguide.com/events/voir-tahiti-first-photographs-1859-1870) — Museum at Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Invalides / Eiffel Tower. An exhibition at the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac of the earliest photographs of French Polynesia, which the museum acquired in 2023. It shows paper negatives made in 1859–1862 by naval surgeon Gustave Viaud, elder brother of Pierre Loti, and images by naval officer Paul Émile Miot.

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