High up in Ménilmontant, the Pavillon Carré de Baudouin is an eighteenth-century pleasure house that became a City of Paris cultural venue in 2007. It hosts free temporary exhibitions, as well as talks, screenings and meetings. You reach it through a public garden, away from the bustle of rue de Ménilmontant, in the 20th arrondissement.
Highlights
The colonnaded façade
Around 1770, Nicolas Carré de Baudouin had a Palladian façade with a portico of four Ionic columns added to the house. The brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt spent part of their childhood on this estate.
The garden
The entrance is through the railings that run along this public garden in front of the pavilion. Its lawns, benches and tall trees offer a break before or after the exhibition.
Infos pratiques
Tips
Admission is free for all visitors. Check the programme before you come: between two exhibitions, the galleries may be closed to the public. A lift serves every floor.
How to get there
Metro Ménilmontant, line 2; Pyrénées or Jourdain, line 11; Gambetta, lines 3 and 3 bis. Bus 96, Pyrénées–Ménilmontant and Borrego stops. Address: 121 rue de Ménilmontant, 75020 Paris (entrance through the railings along the garden).
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