Heatwave: Palais de Tokyo closes this Monday due to the heat

If you thought you could cool off inside the Jesse Darling exhibition, at the Palais de Tokyo, on June 22, 2026, you’ll have to skip it... And there’s a good reason: the Paris museum has announced on its website that it will be closing its doors this Monday due to a heatwave. The museum had already shut down the day before, on June 21, for the same reason. Admittedly, the building’s multiple glass roofs don’t help to cool the galleries—in fact, they do the opposite.

Say goodbye to the fans at the Jesse Darling exhibition (and to the museum's other shows as well) — you'll need to find another place to keep cool. That said, just because the exhibitions are closed today doesn't mean the doors are locked at Palais de Tokyo. The reason? Its cafe will stay open, as will its bookstore, at their usual hours.

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A closure rolled out in stages... The museum had already announced a few days earlier that it would shutter its exhibitions Jesse Darling, Benoit Piéron and Cathy de Monchaux on June 19 and 20, 2026, already citing the heat as the reason. If you want to catch the Palais’s summer shows, you’ll have to bide your time and keep an eye on the museum’s notices for a possible Wednesday reopening (the museum’s weekly closure is on Tuesdays), depending on the temperatures. Otherwise, you can try other Parisian museums, or check out another exhibition like the one at the Bourse de Commerce that drops you into a cloud... In any case, stay cool and hydrated!