A museum honoring the sculptor and artist Alberto Giacometti is scheduled to open in Paris in 2026, according to the Foundation Giacometti. The former Invalides train station and the Esplanade’s basement will house the museum, which will also house a school and several hundred of the artist’s pieces.
The museum will display drawings, paintings, and decorative items in addition to the well-known bronze sculptures by Giacometti, “most of which are currently not accessible to the public,” Catherine Grenier, director of the Giacometti Foundation, told Agence France-Presse. Additionally, she stated that there will be “exhibitions of modern and contemporary art related to the spirit of Giacometti.”
The city is actively renovating the 1900-built Invalides train station, which was constructed for the Paris Exposition. The train station and its underground annex will provide 64,600 square feet for the new museum and school.
Giacometti, born in Switzerland in 1901, relocated to Paris in 1922, where he established himself as a leading figure in the Surrealist sculpture movement. The artist’s studio will be rebuilt and moved from the Giacometti Institute, also located in Paris, to the museum.
