The Petit Palais holds a free exhibition devoted to the colorful and joyful pictures that were fixed on Parisian school walls between 1880 and 1935. These images had been ordered by the City of Paris in the frame of a modern way of thinking implemented in pedagogy and in children’s environment.

Exhibition: “School in Images – 1930s Parisian Settings”, from October 22^nd, 2013, to January 26^th, 2014.
Open Tuesday – Sunday from 10am to 6pm.
Late opening on Thursday until 8pm.
Closed on Mondays and public holidays.
Free entrance.

Barbey, Le travail féminin, sketch for the girls school’s covered playground © Petit Palais / Roger-Violet

Petit Palais
Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
France
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 43 40 00
Metro: Champs-Elysées Clemenceau (lines 1 and 13).

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