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The Atomic Age Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris | MAM Paris 11 October 2024–9 February 2025 Paris
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The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is inviting visitors to take a new look at the history of modernity in the 20th century via the imaginary world of the atom.

The exhibition is an opportunity to explore the artistic representations sparked by the scientific discovery of the atom and its applications, in particular the nuclear bomb, whose devastating consequences changed the fate of humanity. Bringing together some 250 works – paintings, drawings, photographs, videos and installations – as well as documentation that has often been previously unpublished, the exhibition shows, for the first time in a French museum, the widely differing different stances adopted by artists in the face of scientific advances and the controversies they have given rise to. Dealing with a subject now more topical than ever, the exhibition is in keeping with the museum’s desire to reflect contemporary cultural and social concerns in its programming.

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Located between the Champs-Elysées and the Eiffel Tower, the palace that houses the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris is a magnificent example of 1930s architecture. It is unquestionably one of the key institutions of Parisian cultural life. The Museum’s collection of more than 13,000 works makes it one of the biggest museums of modern and contemporary art in France.

The permanent collections present all the main artistic trends from the beginning of the 20th century up to the present day, and include major artists from those periods, such as Picasso, Dufy, Modigliani, Derain, Picabia, Chagall, as well as Boltanski, Parreno and Peter Doig. The museum also owns rare and exceptional in situ works, such as the first two versions of La Danse by Matisse and Raoul Dufy’s monumental masterpiece La Fée électricité.
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11 Av. du Président Wilson
Paris
France
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Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 6pm

Closed on Mondays
and on 1st January, 1st May and 25 December.
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Paris 11 Av. du Président Wilson
Musee dArt Moderne de Paris MAM Paris contemporary art institution in Paris France
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris | MAM Paris
11 Av. du Président Wilson, Paris, France
+33 1 53 67 40 00
http://www.mam.paris.fr/en

Opening hours
Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 6pm

Closed on Mondays
and on 1st January, 1st May and 25 December.
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