Frida Kahlo, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, Jacques Demy and Nefertiti await you in Paris in 2013, and everyone’s looking forward to the reopening of the Galliera fashion museum and – best of all – the Picasso museum this year.

So here are all the biggest and best exhibitions that you should be seeing this year in our fair city!

It’s not really surprising that in a city filled with amazing museums there are a certain number of rather excellent exhibitions. Here are the ones that have caught our eye for 2013 in Paris.

At the Louvre, you’ll be able to see Mexico: masterpieces of New Spain of the 7th & 8th centuries, from 7 March – 7 June, then From Germany: from Friedrich to Beckmann, 1800-1939 from 28th March – 24th June

At the musée des Arts Décoratifs Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec will be filling up the nave from 25 April – 1st September, and the Jean Dubuffet, Coucou Bazar exhibition will run from 24th October – 1st December

At the Orangerie you’ll be able to see I Macchiaioli (1850-1877) – 
Italian impressionists from 10th April – 22nd July, followed by Frida Kahlo / Diego Rivera – Art in fusion from 9th October 2013 – 13th January 2014

At theJeu de Paume we’re looking forward to seeing Erwin Blumenfeld from 15th October 2013 – 26th January 2014

At the Musée d’Orsay, go and see The angel of the bizarre. Dark romanticism, from Goya to Max Ernst from 5th March – 9th June and A French passion – The Spencer and Marlene Hays collection from 26th March – 30th June. There may also be an exhibition about Gustave Doré later in the year (it’s difficult to find official confirmation at the moment).

A the Grand Palais, there’s always a lot going on. Bright ! Dynamic ! Space and vision in art, from the present day to 1912 arrives on 10th April and finishes on 22nd July. But is the Jean Prouvé exhibition still on the cards? Certain sites mention it, but it was planned for the spring, making the lack of information currently available rather odd. In any case, after some mumblings of it being cancelled, Monumenta by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov will still be happening in May, and later in the year you’ll be seeing Georges Braque (18th September 2013 – 13th January 2014), Felix Vallotton (2nd October 2013 – 20th January 2014), photos from Raymond Depardon (13th November 2013 – 15th February 2014) and a Cartier exhibition starting 3rd December

At the Petit Palais you’ll be able to see Félix Ziem from 14th February – 4th August and The Slovenian Impressionists (1890-1920) from 18th April – 13th July

The Pompidou Centre has famous names like Roy Lichtenstein from 3rd July – 4th November, but their site doesn’t mention the Cindy Sherman exhibition that’s supposed to be happening before the end of the year. Hmm…

At the Musée du Luxembourg, following the Chagall exhibition we’ve already written about, you’ll be able to see Dreaming in the Renaissance from 7th Octobre 2013 – 26th January 2014

You’ll be dancing and singing at the Cinémathèque Française with their Jacques Demy exhibition from 10th April – 4th August

At the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, there’s a massive Keith Haring retrospective starting 19th April and running until 18th August, with Le 104 showing some of his large format works over the same dates.TheParis Town Hall holds some very decent (and free) exhibitions). The new one is called Haute Couture and rund from 2nd March – 6th July

At the Cluny Museum you’ll be able to see A Renaissance: art between Flandres and the Champagne region (1150-1250) from 14th April – 17th July 2013

The Musée Jacquemart André will be presenting Eugène Boudin from 22nd March – 22nd July

The next big exhibition at the Cité de la Musique this year will be Music and film – the marriage of the century? from 19th March – 18th August

And you’ll be able to have Tea with Nefertiti at the Institut from Monde Arabe from 23rd April – 8th September

At Versailles there’s The Treasure of the Holy Sepulchre from 16th April – 14th July (also being partly shown at the Maison de Chateaubriand), then the gardens will be spotlighted (as 2013 is the year of Le Nôtre) with Penone Versailles  from 11th June – 31st October, The King’s herb garden at the Grand Trianon – 2nd July – 29th September, and Le Nôtre in perspective. 1613 – 2013 from 22nd October 2013 – 24th February 2014

At the Docks, the Galliera fashion museum presents Model – the body of fashion from 16th February – 19th mai. Actually, the Musée Galliera should be reopening in autumn 2013 after a rather lengthy period of renovation

At the Cité l’Architecture there will be  Marcel Breuer (1902-1981). Design and Architecture from 20th February – 17th July, Ricciotti, architect from 10th April – 8th September, and In the intimacy of Geoffroy-Dechaume’s workshop (1816-1892), the romantic sculptor from 24th April – 22nd July

At the Musée Marmottan-Monet, Marie Laurencin will be visible from 21st February – 30th June

At the Musée du Quai Branly there’s a lot going on, as always, with The floating universe of Paul Jacoulet from 26th February – 19th mai, The Philippines, archipelago of exchange from 9 April – 14 July, et Charles Ratton, the invention of ‘primitive’ arts from 25th June – 22nd September

At the maison européenne de la photographie, we be’ll going to see Claude Lévêque – A dreamy moment from 17th April – 16th June

And the Musée des Arts et Métiers has an exhibition from Enki Bilal in the works. Don’t forget that his latest project is currently being shown at the Louvre

There’s no info on the Musée Carnavalet site, but after contacting them via Twitter, they tell us that an exhibition called Alice Alleaume : Le roman d’une garde-robe is in preparation (with the help of the Galliera fashion museum) from 16th October 2013 – 16th March 2014

Above all, try and be in town on Saturday 18th May for Museum Night, which is always interesting! And for the moment, there’s still no fixed date for the reopening of the musée Picasso – for the moment the site just says it’s going to happen this summer. However, for the musée de l’Homme, the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Paris Philharmonic and Jeff Koons at the Pompidou Centre, you’ll have ot be patient until 2014!