Alberto Giacometti Gets a Museum

Summary

• Musée & École Giacometti, the first Alberto Giacometti museum will open in Paris in late 2028
• The museum will house over 10,000 items, marking the largest collection of works by the Swiss sculptor

A new museum dedicated to the life and legacy of Alberto Giacometti is coming to Paris. Set to open in the second half of 2028, the Musée & École Giacometti will take over the former Gare des Invalides, said the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, housing the world’s largest collection of work by the Swiss sculptor.

At 10,000 items, the museum features “thousands of drawings, over 400 sculptures, 100 paintings, a whole collection of decorative object d’art, prints, everything that was in the studio, all the archives,” the foundation’s director, Catherine Grenier, told The Art Newspaper. The collection also spans eras and will include masterpieces from Giacometti’s earliest to latest period, many of which have never been exhibited.

The forthcoming institution expands the foothold of the foundation’s quiet, current home in the city’s 14th arrondissement. Of its 6,000-square-meters, half of its space will be dedicated to exhibitions, encompassing permanent installations of Giacometti’s work beside pieces from various modern and contemporary artists. The other half will comprise a bookstore, restaurant, cafe and educational space for non-degree art classes. A reconstruction of the artist’s atelier, where he lived and worked from 1926 until his death in 1966, will also be on view.

For more information head to the foundation’s website.