Paris stacks April shows
Paris is lining up 20 major exhibitions for April — standout picks include the Arab World Institute's 'Byblos, a Millennium‑Old City of Lebanon' as part of History Days (Mar 24–Aug 23) and the Swiss Cultural Centre, which has reopened after four years of renovation. (parisselectbook.com) (sortiraparis.com) (swissinfo.ch)
French President Emmanuel Macron inaugurated the Byblos exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe on March 23, 2026, alongside Lebanon’s ambassador and the show’s scientific curator Tania Zaven. (elysee.fr) Organisers say the show brings together “more than 400” major Lebanese heritage objects, including recent archaeological finds highlighted as part of the display. (imarabe.org) Curators credit a partnership between the Institut du Monde Arabe, Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture/Directorate General of Antiquities and international museums — the Paris presentation builds on a concept first developed in Leiden and involves collaboration with the Louvre. ( ) The Centre culturel suisse reopened to the public on March 26, 2026 after four years of renovation, with a reopening festival scheduled across March 26–29 at its Marais site on 32 rue des Francs‑Bourgeois. ( ) Swiss federal councillor Elisabeth Baume‑Schneider inspected the revamped CCS, whose redesign was led by the Franco‑Swiss architectural teams ASBR (Paris) and Truwant+Rodet+ (Basel) and which will operate under Pro Helvetia’s cultural remit. ( ) Paris’s April slate also includes a Lee Miller retrospective at the Musée d’Art Moderne running April 10–August 17, 2026, and Alexander Calder at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, alongside season‑finishing shows such as Mickalene Thomas’s “All About Love,” which closes April 5, 2026 at the Grand Palais. ( )
