Ateliers-musée Chana Orloff

Discover the preserved artist’s studio of Chana Orloff, a major 20th-century sculptor, featuring nearly 200 sculptures and drawings in a light-filled modernist space.

Planning your visit

Chana Orloff was one of the significant sculptors of the École de Paris — Ukrainian-born, Jewish, arriving in Paris in 1910, working alongside Modigliani, Soutine and Chagall in the Montparnasse circle, and producing portrait sculpture of considerable force. Auguste Perret built her a studio-house in the 14th arrondissement in 1926, a modernist structure of concrete and glass designed around north light.

She fled to Switzerland in 1942 after the Nazi round-ups; the studio was ransacked and many works destroyed. She returned in 1945 and rebuilt her practice there.

The museum preserves that studio with nearly 200 sculptures and drawings in place, still owned and run by her descendants. It is small, personal and largely unvisited, which makes it one of the more rewarding places in Paris for anyone interested in the interwar avant-garde beyond the famous names.

Because it is a private house museum, opening is limited and visits are usually by booked appointment rather than walk-in — this is the essential practical point.

Bookable options are admission tickets for the atelier museum. Current availability is shown below.