Guided tours and talks

To discover the museum and its incomparable collection of modern and contemporary art, the Centre Pompidou proposes guided tours and talks for a journey through creation of the 20^th and 21^st centuries. The Centre Pompidou also invites visitors to enjoy a tour of the numerous exhibitions staged throughout the year.

Discovering exhibtions

Giving free rein to your emotions, learning to look at works with a critical and documented eye, and discovering the aesthetic and historical issues involved in a temporary exhibition: these are just some of the highlights in store for visitors during a guided tour of the Centre Pompidou’s exhibitions.

Consult the agenda to discover the visits to current exhibitions

In the museum

[Translate to English:] Visite guidée dans le musée © Manuel Braun

Tours in French on Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m., and Wednesday and Thursdays and at 7 p.m.

On the first sunday of the month, it's free!

On the first Sunday of every month, a lecturer provides a tour through the museum, or you can enjoy your own free, random, unaccompanied journey through Europe’s biggest collection of modern and contemporary art.

Open to all; free within the limit of places available.

Meet up at the group reception area at 4 p.m. on the first Sunday of the month.

« Face aux œuvres » (studying a work "face to face"): a fascinating cycle of visits

Cycle de visites-conférences "Face aux œuvres" — Visiteur devant Raoul Hausmann, "Mechanischer Kopf", [1919] (détail)
© Manuel Braun, 2016

In a series of three sessions, the “Face aux œuvres” cycle provides a thematic interpretation of the collection, presented by a Centre Pompidou lecturer. Programmed in the evening, these talks/tours are an occasion to discover and explore modern and contemporary creation face-to-face with the works.

Meet up at the group reception area, 15 minutes before the beginning