The Palais de Chaillot was built for the World Exhibition of 1937. Located on the Place du Trocadero and 11-November, in the 16th arrondissement of the capital, on the hill of Chaillot, it replaced the Trocadero Palace built for the Universal Exhibition of 1878 and which also welcomed those of 1889 and 1900.
For 1937, the architects Jacques Carlu, Louis-Hippolyte Boileau and Léon Azéma were chosen. Compared to the previous building, Moorish and Neo-Byzantine, they favored the development of a central esplanade in the axis of the Eiffel Tower, with a forecourt and gardens.
The wings of the palace with a glass roof are in a semicircle and facades adorned with pilasters (pillars enclosed in the wall).
Imposing but neoclassical and much more refined than its predecessor, the palace has a typical architecture of the interwar period.
Its esplanade, named Parvis of Human Rights, its statuary and its gardens constitute in themselves a place of approval very appreciated offering remarkable points of view.
Having been the seat for a few years after the war of the new international institutions (UN, NATO), the palace now houses the Museum of Man and the Marine Museum in its west wing, the National Theater of Chaillot and the City of architecture and heritage in the east wing.
Open every day except Tuesday from 11h to 19h and until 21h on Thursday. Price (City of Architecture): from 6 and 8 euros.
Information on +33 1 58 51 52 00.
