Bourse de commerce (Paris) Cape

Address: 2 Rue de Viarmes / 2 Rue du Louvre, 75001 Paris, France

Website: https://www.pinaultcollection.com/en/bourse-de-commerce

Bourse de commerce (Paris) is a circular historic exchange building in Paris’s 1st arrondissement that was repurposed and reopened in 2021 as a contemporary art museum. The project converted the former commodity exchange to house the Pinault Collection.

The interior is dominated by a large central rotunda beneath a 19th-century cast-iron and glass dome, surrounded by newly fitted galleries and exhibition spaces designed for contemporary art installations. Visitors typically move between the rotunda and a sequence of galleries arranged around and below the central volume.

The site originated as a civic grain market and later commodity exchange with successive 18th- and 19th-century construction phases; the 19th-century dome and ironwork are among the building’s notable historical fabric. The most recent intervention involved conservation of historic elements and insertion of contemporary gallery spaces by the renovation team.

The building sits in central Paris near Les Halles and the Louvre, within the 1st arrondissement, and is served by multiple metro lines and nearby pedestrian routes through central Paris.

• Pinault Collection: Since its 2021 reopening after a major conversion, it houses the Pinault Collection of contemporary art in a renovated historic trading hall.
• Dome: The building retains a prominent 19th-century cast-iron and glass dome that crowns the circular rotunda and is a defining architectural feature.

What to See#

• Rotunda: The circular central hall is capped by a large 19th-century cast-iron and glass dome and serves as the building’s principal volume and orientation point for exhibitions.
• Galleries and exhibition spaces: Multiple contemporary gallery spaces occupy the former exchange building and annexes, hosting rotating exhibitions from the Pinault Collection and temporary shows since the 2021 reopening.

From Métro / RER: Châtelet-Les Halles (RER A/B/D), or Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre (Métro 1 and 7); the site is a short walk from either station in central Paris.

• Reserve tickets online for the Pinault Collection exhibitions at the Bourse; popular shows can sell out on weekends.
• Take the elevator to the rooftop to see the iron-and-glass dome interior from above; photographers should bring a wide lens.
• Cross Rue de l'Échelle in the late afternoon to watch the glass dome catch the low Paris sun.