AFMO Annual Benefit Weekend
in celebration of the Musée d’Orsay and Musée de l’Orangerie

A Weekend in Paris

Thursday, October 23 through
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Registration for the 2025 benefit Weekend in Paris is open.

Cultural Highlights

The weekend’s cultural highlights, private tours and experiences will include

• Curatorial tours: Sargent The Paris years and Paul Troubetzkoy. The Sculptor Prince (Musée d’Orsay); Berthe Weill. Art dealer of the Parisian Avant-garde (Musée de l’Orangerie); Paul Poiret, Fashion is a feast and 1925-2025. 100 years of Art déco (Musée des Arts Décoratifs); Peintures sur papier by Pierre Soulages (Musée du Luxembourg)

• French heritage: Notre-Dame de Paris; Château de Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas); Grandes écuries and Château de Chantilly; Palais du Luxembourg

• Artful conversations: artist studios and collections (confidential)

• Luxury savoir-faire: Haute couture heritage, haute couture embroidery, luxury (with Comité Colbert) and living heritage ateliers (L’Orfèvrerie)

• French gourmet: Le Cordon Bleu; École Ritz Escoffier; Ecole Ducasse

• Conversations in Style: interior designers (Penny D. Baird); Art du bouquet (Anne Vitchen); high jewellery

• Fairs and art galleries: Art Basel Paris; Design Miami Paris.

Elements of the program are subject to change. Others are under embargo still.

More visits and experiences will be added in coming weeks. For more information about the program, please email us.

To celebrate our support to the Musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie and transatlantic friendship, AFMO will host

• an opening cocktail at the Musée de l’Orangerie

• a luncheon at Sénat Palais Luxembourg

• a French-American friendship cocktail at an exclusive private venue

• the annual Gala evening at the Musée d'Orsay, including private viewings of the Fall 2025 exhibitions.

For more information about the program, please email us.

Mid-June, registered guests will be able to choose the visits and events they will attend, based on availabilities.

New for 2025: Following the Gala celebrations in Paris, AFMO will offer a trip to Reims, in the heart of Champagne country, with exclusive cultural and artistic visits and experiences. This trip is by invitation only (Benefactor level and above). For more information, please email us.

Weekend in Paris registration

• 3-Day weekend in Paris, including Gala evening at the Musée d’Orsay: starting at $8,500 (including donation).

The Weekend in Paris is a fundraiser open to AFMO members and non-members alike, to support the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie with their projects. Purchasers of weekend tickets may deduct the cost of each ticket, less $2,500 per person.