elaine

Hi
I very much want to see this exhibit in Paris at the Grand Palais during my December visit. I've done serveral searches on ordering tickets. The only offer I came up with was www.fnac.com which offers tickets to this, but at the end I realized they were assuming I live in France (postage issues.)
Does anyone know if advance ticket-buying is recommended, and/or of a place where I can buy the tickets either now or when I arrive in Paris? If not, I'll inquire at my hotel.
thanks

111op

Did you try calling them?

http://www.rmn.fr/turner-whistler-mo...cal/index.html

Granted, the call could be expensive.

I don't know what I'd do. If I really cared, I think that I'd try to buy advanced tickets.

It also depends on what your schedule is and when you'll be there. If you're there near the start or the end of the exhibition, there could be a lot of people wanting to go. If not, then probably fewer crowds. If you've a couple of days, you could potentially try to buy a ticket for a future date after you get there.

A few months ago, I was able to get into "Origins of Abstraction" during a weekend at Orsay. A friend mentioned that the Gauguin exhibition last year (?) was very popular, and tickets were hard to come by.

elaine

thanks, I went through the Grand Palais website again and found an email address, so I've written to them.

If anyone wants to read an article on this exhibit, here's one
http://www.amnnews.com/press.jsp?id=2347

111op

Sounds very interesting. Actually it goes to Tate Britain afterwards, as the article points out.

By the way, perhaps post the e-mail address here (or a link)? That way someone reading this has the proper info too.

Have a great time.

Christina

I don't know if that will work out, but if FNAC is selling them, why not just pick them up at the store in Paris instead of having them mailed? I would never do that anyway, as I'd be afraid they'd get lost. FNAC has a good ticket service, I've used it myself and sometimes they don't even seem to have a service fee (or not much of one). I use the FNAC on rue de Rennes which is open pretty late and very convenient to where I stay. However, I think they have FNAC ticket offices all over town.

Christina

I just checked the FNAC ticket service, and they have these tickets for 11.1 euro. YOu can order, prepay by credit card, and pick them up at the store, this is what they say:
<<En cas de retrait en magasin, il vous sera demandé de présenter la carte ayant servi au paiement ainsi qu?une pièce d?identité. La "e-carte bleue" n'est pas acceptée pour l?achat de billets.>>

The site lists all the locations with tickets services, there are a lot -- near the Opera, there is one at 24 bd Italiens, and there is one near gare St Lazare, at Bastille, on Champs-Elysees, etc.

Virgin Megastore on the Champs-Elysees also has a ticket agency and I imagine they sell them, although I have found that FNAC often is used by more nonprofit places to sell tickets. I was at the big Chagall exhibit at the same place where you could buy tickets in advance and it would have been a good idea if you knew when you wanted to go. The line was very long, but that was in summer.

laurie_ann

I bought tickets from FNAC over the internet this summer for an opera. They mailed them to me in the U.S. no problem. (In fact they came so fast I almost through them out by accident.) I think I just filled in the address and zip code as given, maybe fit USA in at the end somewhere. Good luck! (I saw T/W/M in Toronto this summer. Excellent!)

Mara

I just saw the exhibit yesterday, and it was wonderful. I ordered my ticket through FNAC and picked it up at one of their stores. I have done that before with no problem. I actually never thought of trying to have them mailed here to NYC.
Mara

lotje

ordered tickets for the same exhibition with fnac for Oct 30; got them already in the mail; but then i'm going to paris only for the day, and i don't want to loose any time queing at a fnac store!

AnselmAdorne

I saw the Turner Whistler Monet exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto just before they wrapped it up to go to Paris. It was breathtaking.

The exhibit pulls together paintings and drawings from over 30 collections in Europe, Canada, and the United States. What struck me was that this might very well be one of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to see these works arranged together.

Anselm

elaine

thanks for all the research and good info
Mara, fellow New Yorker, or anyone else did you order through fnac in advance (website)? or once you were in Paris?

Nikki

I have ordered tickets from fnac a couple of times on their web site and had them sent to me in the U.S. Very easy.

elaine

update

I did go back to the FNAC website and was able to order a ticket. I wanted it mailed, but ended up with instructions to pick it up in Paris.
I've written to their help desk to see if it can be changed to a mailing, but either way I have the ticket ordered.
thanks for all the suggestions

Mara

Elaine, I have ordered tickets in advance several times over the years on fnac, sncf, opera-de-paris and have always paid for them online and picked them up in Paris with no problem.
Mara

111op

Hi, did anyone try to see this without an advanced ticket? I didn't buy a ticket, and of course, it's all sold out.

What're the lines like?

Thanks.

shellio

111op, ticketholders get specific times, on the half-hour, in the mornings. After 1pm the afternoons are open to first-come, first-served visitors who begin to line up, in my experience, a couple of hours ahead. The lines can be quite long.

Are you sure there are no more reserved tickets available? The box offices (Virgin Megastore, FNAC, etc.) only get certain numbers of tickets; when they're out of those they tell you it's sold out, but other sites may still have them. I bought mine two days in advance at the FNAC on Champs Elysées after being told at the Virgin Megastore in the Carrousel du Louvre that it was sold out.

OO

The lines are terrible, Disney like!

OK...for the sake of saving someone else, I'll embarrass myself. We knew and wanted to see the Turner/Whistler/Monet exhibit. Lined up, unfortunately not realizing there were two exhibits in Grand Palais at the same time, the other Japanese Art. You line up on one side of the bldg (east) for Japanese Art, the other side, (west) for Whistler, unbeknownst to us.

After 45 minutes in line on the east (shorter line) side of the bldg, we got to the ticket window only to find it was ONLY for the Japanese art. Who, after that time in line would say "forget it". We went, we saw

OO

oops...posted too soon. My DH cares zilch about Japanese art. Not a good mistake. After touring the exhibit, predisposed to being disappointed, we went to the other side of the bldg to see what lines were like, still wanting to see that exhibit. If our line for Japanese art took 45 minutes, that would have been double or triple the wait time...fine if you've got a couple of weeks in Paris, not so fine if you have only a week, and that week is nearly up.

Insert a Paris shrug here...we'll laugh about this for a long time to come, and hey, we did see some of the originals from that...ahem...white jacketed paperback best seller so popular in the 70's (I think it was). hehheh

elaine

We've got tickets in hand already, do we have to line in or head straight for a door?

elaine

wrong preposition, I meant 'line up'