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We are in 1937... Paris hosts the Universal Exhibition and, for the occasion, decides to strike hard by building a monumental Palais des Arts intended to house two museums. The Museum of the City of Paris that we know today and the National Museum of Modern Art which will undergo multiple transformations before becoming the current Palais de Tokyo. Inaugurated in 2002 on the initiative of the Ministry of Culture to offer an alternative to the Center Pompidou and compete with the creative vitality of London and Berlin, the Palais de Tokyo aims more than ever to be a hybrid place - a laboratory for the most diverse experiments. . Expanded in 2012 to become the largest contemporary art center in Europe (22,000 m2), the place presents emerging creation and the most established artists, alternating thematic and monographic exhibitions, installations and carte blanche which invite creators to invest all of the spaces, even transforming them in new ways. In a desire for transversality, the museum has also opened up to crafts through a cycle of exhibitions, supported by the Bettencourt Foundation.