Palais de Tokyo

The Palais de Tokyo owes its name to the street that once ran alongside it, which was called the Avenue de Tokio until the end of the Second World War. When the building was constructed for the International Exhibition of 1937, it was designed as a grand, twin-winged palace intended to display modern art collections. While the eastern wing has housed the city's modern art museum for decades, the western wing that you are approaching experienced a much more erratic history, serving at one point as a storage site for art confiscated by the Nazis during the occupation of Paris.