Palais de Tokyo
The Palais de Tokyo is a building dedicated to modern and contemporary art, located at 13 avenue du Président-Wilson, facing the Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: building in Paris
- Also known as: “Musée d’Art Moderne” and “Palace of Tokyo”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Eiffel Tower and Museum of Modern Art Paris.
Eiffel Tower
Photo: Benh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Eiffel Tower is a lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889. Eiffel Tower is situated 670 metres south of Palais de Tokyo.
Museum of Modern Art Paris
Museum
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris or MAM Paris, is a major municipal museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries, including monumental murals by Raoul Dufy, Gaston Suisse, and Henri Matisse. Museum of Modern Art Paris is situated 100 metres east of Palais de Tokyo.
Guimet Museum
Museum
Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, CC BY 2.0.
The Guimet Museum is a Parisian art museum with one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Asian art outside of Asia which includes items from Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Tibet, India, and Nepal, among other countries. Guimet Museum is situated 250 metres northwest of Palais de Tokyo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Passy and 16th arrondissement.
Passy
Suburb
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Passy is an area of Paris, France, located in the 16th arrondissement, on the Right Bank. It is adjacent to Auteuil to the southwest, and Chaillot to the northeast.
16th arrondissement
Photo: Elena Tatiana Chis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
This large district occupies most of the West of Paris, extending east-west between the bends of the Seine from the Jardins of Trocadero immediately facing the Eiffel Tower to the expansive Bois du Boulogne, and north-south from the Etoile to the southern border of Paris.
7th arrondissement
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The 7th arrondissement is perhaps the most expensive area to live in Paris. The Eiffel Tower, one of the most famous tourist sites in the world, is here, as well as many government buildings. Many dignitaries and VIPs populate this arrondissement.
Palais de Tokyo
- Categories: museum building, cultural institution, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.86411° or 48° 51′ 51″ northLongitude
2.29641° or 2° 17′ 47″ eastElevation
38 metres (125 feet)Height
14 metres (46 feet)Open location code
8FW4V77W+JHOpenStreetMap ID
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tourism=museum
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Palais de Tokyo” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Armenian: “Պալե դը Տոկիո”
- Armenian: “Տոկիոյի պալատ”
- Azerbaijani: “Tokio Sarayı”
- Basque: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Belarusian: “Такійскі палац”
- Breton: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Catalan: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Chinese: “东京宫”
- Chinese: “東京宮”
- Croatian: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Czech: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Danish: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Dutch: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Esperanto: “Palaco de Tokio”
- Estonian: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Finnish: “Palais de Tokyo”
- French: “palais de Tokyo (bâtiment)”
- French: “palais de Tokyo”
- French: “Palais de Tokyo”
- French: “palais des musées d’Art moderne (1937)”
- German: “Palais de Tokyo”
- German: “Palais des Musées d’art moderne”
- Greek: “Παλαί ντε Τοκιό”
- Hebrew: “ארמון טוקיו”
- Hebrew: “היכל טוקיו”
- Hebrew: “פאלה דה טוקיו”
- Hindi: “टोक्यो महल”
- Hungarian: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Indonesian: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Italian: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Japanese: “パレ・ド・トーキョー”
- Korean: “팔레 드 토쿄”
- Malay: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Norwegian: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Polish: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Portuguese: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Romanian: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Russian: “Пале де Токио”
- Russian: “Токийский дворец”
- Slovenian: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Spanish: “Palacio Tokio”
- Spanish: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Swedish: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Turkish: “Palais de Tokyo”
- Ukrainian: “Токійський палац”
- “Palais de Tokyo”
- “palais des musées d’Art moderne (1937)”
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