FAQ

We strongly recommend booking tickets online, even if you are eligible for free admission. Subject to availability, tickets may be sold at the ticket office. Please note that visitors who have purchased their admission ticket at the ticket office located on Rue Saint Honoré must also wait in line with those who have booked their tickets online (Place du Palais Royal). 

The date, time and price of the exhibition tickets reserved through our online ticket office can be modified at any time before the date of the original visit, by clicking on the link in your order confirmation email. After this deadline, or for other activities, the tickets are non-exchangeable and non-refundable, in accordance with our general terms and conditions of sale.  In the event of a price increase, the difference must be paid. Please note that it is not possible to change an activity, and that our tickets are non-refundable, in accordance with our general terms and conditions of sale.

Free admission tickets may be cancelled. 

You can enter the Fondation within 30 minutes of the time indicated on  your ticket. 

The date, time and price of the exhibition tickets reserved via our online ticket office can be modified at any time before the date of the original visit, by clicking on the link in your order confirmation email. After this deadline, or for other activities, the tickets are non-exchangeable and non-refundable, in accordance with our general terms and conditions of sale. 
In the event of a price increase, the difference must be paid. Please note that it is not possible to change an activity, and that our tickets are non-refundable, in accordance with our general terms and conditions of sale.
Free admission tickets can be cancelled. 

During exhibition periods, the Fondation’s bookshop may only be accessed via the exhibition spaces by visitors with an admission ticket. Between exhibitions, the bookshop can be accessed free of charge by the general public through its entrance on Rue de Rivoli. 

Visitors with disabilities, press card holders and ICOM members, and visitors possessing tickets without a specific visit date can use the fast-track line.  

Wheelchairs can be made available (subject to availability) on request, by asking our front of house team. Seat sticks are also freely available for use in the exhibition rooms. 

Only guide dogs and service animals (upon presentation of a medical certificate) are allowed to enter the exhibition spaces. 

Yes, all of the Fondation Cartier’s spaces are accessible with a pram. For models that are too large to fit through the circulation areas and between the works, they must be left in the cloakroom. Baby carriers are available upon request from our reception team, subject to availability.

The Fondation Cartier is closed on December 25, January 1, and May 1. Early closings will take place on December 24 and 31 at 6 p.m.

Evacuation of the Fondation Cartier's spaces begins 30 minutes before its closing time: 9:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and 7:30 p.m. the rest of the week.

To book a non-guided visit or a guided tour with a Fondation guide, please contact us at groupes@fondation.cartier.com.

Group tours are available for groups of 10 or more. Adult groups are limited to 20 people. School groups are limited to one class and their chaperones. For more information on our formats and fees, please contact us at groupes@fondation.cartier.com.

No, there is no permanent exhibition at the Fondation Cartier. All of our exhibitions are temporary.   

The Collection of the Fondation Cartier is not on display as such. However, works from the collection may be put on display during temporary exhibitions. 

Lockers are available in which you can leave your smaller personal items, subject to availability (rucksack size). 
For security reasons, larger items, such as luggage (cabin bag size and bigger), scooters, folding bicycles, skateboards etc, are not allowed inside the Fondation Cartier’s premises. 

Find out more about our selection of visitor experiences (guided tours of the exhibition or thematic tours, workshops, etc.) for all ages here. 

Please feel free to ask one of our guide in the exhibition room if you have a question about the works exhibited or to follow an introductory visit (included in the price of the admission ticket). A webapp is also available to acompany you during your visit.

You can submit your artist’s portfolio to direction.artistique@fondation.cartier.com. 

You can contact our press department at presse@fondation.cartier.com.  

For any question concerning archive images, please send your request to phototheque@fondation.cartier.com.  

If you cannot find the answer to your question above, please write to us at the following email address contact@fondation.cartier.com or call +33170654700, Monday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

To discover job offers at the Fondation Cartier, visit our LinkedIn page.

The Fondation Cartier places great importance on building an inclusive organization that respects the uniqueness of each of its employees.

For the year 2025, the Fondation Cartier achieved a score of 86/100 on the gender equality index.

The French government's professional equality index evaluates salary inequalities between women and men within companies. The result is based on five criteria: the pay gap, the gap in promotion and raise rates, the percentage of employees who received a raise after maternity leave, and the number of women among the top 10 highest-paid positions.

• Pay gap between women and men: 31/40

• Individual raise gap: 35/35

• Number of employees who received a raise upon returning from maternity leave: 15/15

• Parity among the 10 highest salaries: 5/10