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Current exhibitions in Marseille

Discover a selection of exhibitions currently taking place or about to open in Marseille. From the Musée des Arts Décoratifs to the Mucem and the Musée d’Histoire de Marseille, you’re sure to find something to suit you and your family, friends or solo.

Published on 23 August 2023

Exhibitions in Marseille’s municipal museums

Aliçe et les drôles d’oiseaux

Dates : From 17 December 2025 to 8 March 2026
Place: Natural History Museum
Description: This exhibition takes visitors on a poetic journey where the works of Bernard Briançon, inspired by the world of Lewis Carroll, combine dream nature, reality and the absurd in a gallery of emblematic and fantastic animals.
Admission: free
Find out more about the “Aliçe et les drôles d’oiseaux” exhibition

The Detaille family, photographers from Marseille (1860-2024)

Dates : From 31 October 2025 to 31 October 2026
Place: Marseille History Museum
Description: The “Detaille: photographers of Marseilles (1860-2024)” exhibition at the Musée d’Histoire de Marseille highlights over a century of photography through the work of three generations of the Detaille family, major figures in Marseilles photography. Thanks to a studio collection recently acquired by the city, it reveals the historical and cultural wealth of Marseilles, offering a unique insight into the development of the area and its inhabitants.
Admission: free
Find out more about the “Les Detaille” exhibition

Marsiho e la Mar

Dates : From 7 October 2025 to 8 March 2026
Place: Château de la Buzine
Description: From 7 October 2025, the Château de la Buzine presents Marsiho e la Mar, an exhibition on the link between Marseille and the sea, from the XVIIIᵉ to the XXᵉ century. More than 200 works and objects from local heritage collections offer a fresh look at this maritime imagination, in an immersive scenography combining art and ethnography.
Admission: €5 full price / €4 concessions
Find out more about the “Marsiho e la Mar” exhibition

Pétanque!

Dates: from 3 July 2025 to 18 January 2026
Location: Musée d’Histoire de Marseille
Description: Pétanque, a symbol of conviviality and a pillar of Marseilles’ identity, is on show at the Musée d’Histoire de Marseille through a historical, sociological and visual approach, celebrating this popular sport that is rooted in local urban life and now has an international reputation.
Admission: Free
Find out more about the “Pétanque!” exhibition

Les veilleurs – Ali Cherri

Dates: from 6 June 2025 to 4 January 2026
Venue: Musée d’Art Contemporain [MAC] in Marseille
Description: The Les Veilleurs exhibition at the [mac] in Marseille is based around two totem poles acquired in 2024. Ali Cherri stages a dialogue between his works and pieces from the museum’s collections, freed from traditional museum narratives to become matter and emotion.
Admission: Full price €6 / Reduced €3
Free every 1st Sunday of the month
Find out more about the “Les veilleurs – Ali Cherri” exhibition

“Laure Prouvost – Mère We Sea” exhibition

Dates : From 2 April 2025 to 11 January 2026
Place: Centre de la Vieille Charité
Description: Laure Prouvost presents a monumental installation specifically designed for the Vieille Charité chapel, combining underwater influences and aquatic reflections, involving the participation of the public.
Admission: Free
Find out more about the “Laure Prouvost – Mère We Sea” exhibition

“Infiniment bleu. Arts décoratifs, peinture et mode” exhibition

Dates : From 7 March 2025 to 15 February 2026
Place: Château Borély – Museum of Decorative Arts, Earthenware and Fashion
Description: This exhibition presents a group of works based around the colour blue, from the museum’s permanent collections, as well as from the Musée Grobet-Labadié and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille.
Find out more about the “Infinitely Blue” exhibition

Other exhibitions to discover

Lumières Célestres – Marcoville

Dates : From 25 October 2025 to 10 March 2026
Place: Major Cathedral
Description: Marcoville, a French sculptor committed to the poetic use of recycled materials, transforms the cathedral into a luminous universe populated by immense glass installations (angels, trees, virgins and fish) offering visitors an immersive experience enriched by educational workshops on his ecological approach.
Admission: Free
Find out more about the “Lumières Célestes” exhibition

Flow Eonarium

Dates : From 26 October 2025 to 3 January 2026
Venue: Palais de la Bourse
Immerse yourself in a reinterpretation of Smetana’s La Moldau, where classical music unites with the most innovative visual technologies. This sensory journey transforms the symphonic poem into a river of images, sounds and electronic vibrations. Thanks to the collaboration of the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and the creative direction of PROJEKTIL, the work is transformed into an immersive poetic narrative, combining hypnotic projections and revisited orchestration.
Price: €13
Find out more about the “Flow Eonarium” exhibition

De fiel, de miel et de sel : Katia Bourdarel

Dates: From 16 October 2025 to 15 March 2026
Place: Musée Regards de Provence
Description: The exhibition De fiel, de miel et de sel brings together around a hundred works by Katia Bourdarel. Between dream and reality, body and nature, she unfurls a poetic and ambivalent universe, nourished by myths and feminist and environmental issues. A cultural programme will accompany this sensitive and immersive journey.
Admission: Full price €8.50 / Reduced price €3.50 to €7
Find out more about the “Of gall, honey and salt” exhibition

Don Quichotte – Histoire de fou, histoire d’en rire

Dates: From 13 October 2025 to 30 March 2026
Place: Mucem
Description: After Genet, Giono and Flaubert, the Mucem is devoting its literary exhibition to Don Quixote, the hero invented by Cervantes in 1605 and now a universal myth. More than 200 works – prints, publishing masterpieces, paintings, film, song, comic strips and popular objects – retrace the comic and abundant fortunes of the sad-faced knight and his faithful Sancho. From Goya to Dalí, Picasso to Garouste, and right up to the present day, the exhibition highlights the inexhaustible reinvention of this legendary duo.
Admission: €11
Find out more about the “Don Quixote” exhibition

Lire le Ciel – Sous les étoiles en Méditerranée

Dates : From 9 July 2025 to 5 January 2026
Place: Mucem
Description: The “Reading the Sky – Under the Stars in the Mediterranean” exhibition at the Mucem explores the fascination for the stars and the celestial vault, focusing on the observation of the night sky in the Mediterranean through the ages. It traces the evolution of knowledge and beliefs, from Mesopotamian antiquity to contemporary astrology, highlighting a shared culture of the sky that still influences our current perception of the stars.
Admission: €11
Find out more about the “Reading the sky” exhibition

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Our neighbours

Regards d’un collectionneur
(Caillebotte, Vallotton, Lempicka, Valadon, Picasso, Renoir, Manet…)

Dates: From 7 November 2025 to 22 March 2026
Place: Hôtel de Caumont – Aix-en-Provence
Description: Through the visionary collection of Oscar Ghez, the exhibition at Caumont-Centre d’Art retraces the abundant development of French painting at the turn of the XXᵉ century, combining major modern currents, daring discoveries and humanist commitment.
Admission: €16 (full price)
Find out more about the “Regards d’un collectionneur” exhibition