Musée d'art
Musée du sourire
Paris · Paris · Île-de-France
The Museum of Smiles is an art museum located in Paris, founded in 1996 as an innovative project initially virtual before becoming itinerant. The museum is characterized as a house-museum and a laboratory of emotions, dedicated to the study and presentation of the smile throughout art history across civilizations. Its collections combine ancient artworks, notably a terracotta Korè head acquired in 2025, and objects exploring the representation of the smile in various artistic traditions. The museum functions as a space for sensitive research and cultural transmission, founded on experience and narrative rather than on classical institutional modalities. Its approach questions the rarity of the smile in visual forms and its value as a founding trace of Western artistic expression.
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45 R. de Lévis, 75017 Paris
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