Grand Palais

Name

Grand Palais

Legal name

Établissement public de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux et du Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées (GrandPalaisRmn)

Website

https://grandpalais.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cultural Venue and Museum Exhibition Services

NAICS

Museums (712110), Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (7121), Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries (711)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990), Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Performing Arts & Cultural Event Venues (Theaters, Museums) (THAHAAAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Convention & Exhibition Centers (Public Convention Centers, Civic Centers) (THAHAAAA), Museum, Zoo & Attraction Gift Shops (CRALAJAG)

Keywords

• Art exhibitions
• Cultural venue
• Museum subscriptions
• Live performances
• Venue rental

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Ticket Sales: Revenue from individual and group tickets for exhibitions, performances, concerts, conferences, and events. E-billets sold online with various pricing tiers based on visitor category.
2. Pass GrandPalais Subscriptions: Annual subscription passes (Pass GrandPalais and Pass GrandPalais+) offering unlimited access to exhibitions, museum collections, and discounts on merchandise and partner venues.
3. Museum Shop and E-commerce: Sale of exhibition catalogs, merchandise, reproductions, and cultural products through physical boutiques and online e-boutique (boutiquesdemusees.fr)
4. Space Rental and Event Services: Private hire of Grand Palais venues for events, corporate functions, and cultural occasions
5. Publications and Editions: Sale of art books, exhibition catalogs, and cultural publications through GrandPalaisRmnÉditions
6. Sponsorship and Patronage: Corporate sponsorship arrangements with partners such as Chanel for funding exhibitions and events

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Grand Palais operates a major Parisian exhibition and performance venue, hosting temporary art exhibitions, concerts, dance and live performances, and educational art-history programming. Visitors access content through electronic ticketing (E-BILLET), annual subscription passes (Pass GrandPalais and Pass GrandPalais+) providing access to 15 national museums, plus ancillary services including museum shop retail, art publications, a photography agency, art workshops, and corporate venue rental.

Product overview

Grand Palais is a cultural venue operated by GrandPalaisRmn (Établissement public de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux et du Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées), offering exhibitions, performances, concerts, and educational programs. The core offering includes the Pass GrandPalais and Pass GrandPalais+ subscription memberships providing unlimited access to exhibitions and 15 national museums, along with the E-BILLET ticketing system for exhibitions, events, and Histoires d'Art conferences. The product portfolio spans temporary exhibitions (Matisse, Hilma af Klint), summer programming (Grand Palais d'été, After Nef), concerts, workshops, guided tours, and children's activities. The ecosystem also includes museum boutique products, art publications (Éditions), photography services (GrandPalaisRmnPhoto), and art workshops (Ateliers d'art). The ticketing platform integrates Worldline for payment processing and supports Google Pay, Apple Pay, and ANCV Connect. Subscribers receive access to a network of 15 national museums across France including the Musée de Cluny, Musée Marc Chagall, and Musée Fernand Léger.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Grand Palais d'été: Summer edition of performances and concerts held at the Grand Palais, with a 2026 edition starting June 2.
• After Nef
• Histoires d'Art
• Palais des enfants
• Pass GrandPalais / Pass GrandPalais+
• GrandPalaisRmnPhoto
• GrandPalaisRmnÉditions
• Ateliers d'art du GrandPalaisRmn

Products and services

• Pass GrandPalais

Quantifiable outcome

• Cultural tourism boost from major exhibitions (e.g., Matisse 1941-1954 expected to attract international visitors to Paris)

Named customers2 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration15 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• Centre PompidoucoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on major exhibitions including Hilma af Klint's first solo exhibition in France, combining collections and curatorial expertise from both prestigious institutions.
• ChanelflagshipGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate sponsorship partnership supporting Grand Palais exhibitions and cultural programming. Chanel is prominently featured as a sponsor in the institutional footer.
• Ministry of Culture (Ministère de la Culture)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGrandPalaisRmn operates under the authority of the Ministry of Culture and Communications, receiving governmental support and oversight.
• RMN GrandPalais Network of National MuseumscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPass GrandPalais and Pass GrandPalais+ provide access to 15 national museums across France including Musée Magnin (Dijon), Maison Bonaparte (Ajaccio), Château de Compiègne, Musée de Cluny (Paris), Musée Marc Chagall (Nice), Musée Fernand Léger (Biot), and others.
• Coup de Pouce CinémaminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPartner organization mentioned in the ecosystem for cultural programming and film-related events.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Musée d'Orsay: Parisian fine arts museum housed in a converted historic building; directly comparable as a heritage-venue cultural institution under the French national museums network that is part of the Pass GrandPalais ecosystem.
• Centre Pompidou: Major Paris modern and contemporary art museum explicitly collaborating with Grand Palais on the 2026 Hilma af Klint exhibition. Directly comparable as a premium ticketed cultural venue in central Paris with overlapping programming, visitor demographics, and corporate event hire.
• Palais de Tokyo: Paris's largest contemporary art center, operating exhibitions, performances, and events in a monumental historic building. Closely comparable to Grand Palais as a competing exhibition and event venue targeting similar contemporary art audiences and corporate event clients.
• Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection: Renovated Paris historic commodity exchange now operating as a contemporary art museum under the Pinault Collection. Directly comparable as a Paris heritage-venue hosting premium contemporary exhibitions and competing for the same cultural-tourist and corporate-event market.
• Fondation Louis Vuitton: Privately funded Frank Gehry-designed art foundation in Paris hosting major temporary exhibitions and corporate events. Comparable to Grand Palais as a premium-ticketed, exhibition-driven venue competing for the same luxury-sponsor and high-discretionary-spend visitors.

Broad incumbents

• Tate Modern: London's leading contemporary art museum in a converted power station, hosting major ticketed retrospectives similar to Grand Palais. Comparable as a globally recognized, large-scale exhibition venue with subscription/membership programs, though geographically non-overlapping.
• Museo Nacional del Prado: Spain's flagship national art museum in Madrid, operating ticketed exhibitions, memberships, and public cultural programming. Comparable to Grand Palais as a national-museum incumbent in a major European capital targeting similar cultural-tourism demographics.
• Reina Sofía Museum: Madrid's national museum of 20th-century art, hosting major ticketed temporary exhibitions (e.g., Picasso's Guernica) with associated programming and publishing. Comparable to Grand Palais as a national-level European museum with blockbuster exhibition programming and event-hire capabilities.
• Musée du Louvre: World's largest and most-visited art museum, also part of the French national museums network tied into Pass GrandPalais. Comparable as a benchmark incumbent for cultural-tourism ticketing, exhibitions, and memberships, though at materially greater scale and with broader scope.

Emerging players

• Art Basel: Global organizer of premium art fairs (Basel, Miami Beach, Hong Kong, Paris+). Comparable as an adjacent organizer of major art exhibitions and fairs overlapping with Grand Palais's hosting of art salons/foires and exhibition programming for collector audiences.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/GrandPalaisRmn
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@GrandPalaisRmn
• Facebookfacebook.com/GrandPalais.RMN
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/reunion-des-musees-nationaux
• Instagraminstagram.com/le_grand_palais/?hl=fr
• TikToktiktok.com/@le_grand_palais

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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