At Le Fresnoy, the school serves as a pipeline to the museum. Students produce more than 50 works of art here each year—from cinema and photography to theater and music—that are regularly exhibited to the public. You can also experience Le Fresnoy by attending a film screening, arts festival, public lecture, cinema retrospective, or other special event that the center organizes. Le Fresnoy offers guided tours on request for private groups and school field trips.
Full-priced admission is €4 per person. Students, senior citizens, and job-seekers can enter the museum at a reduced cost of €3. For cinema showings, tickets cost €6 each.
Consider combining your visit with a meal. Le Fresnoy has an on-site restaurant that is open for lunch Monday to Friday. The restaurant opens for after-work drinks and snacks on Thursday until mid-evening, and offers evening service on Friday nights.
Children and teens under the age of 18 receive free admission to the museum, as well as teachers and students of art and art history.
Looking for gifts or reference materials? There is an on-site bookshop that is open during both exhibition and office hours.
Le Fresnoy is located next to Roubaix train station just outside the city of Lille. Lille is reachable in an hour by high-speed TGV from Paris and 45 minutes from Brussels. If coming from Lille or Tourcoing, you can take Metro Line 2 to the museum; get off at Alsace station. Bus Line 21 also goes to Le Fresnoy station. If driving, take motorway A22 and take Exit 9: Le Fresnoy-Studio National.
Le Fresnoy keeps regular office hours, Monday to Friday. However, exhibitions are only open from Wednesday to Sunday, from mid-afternoon until early evening. The museum is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. During cinema showings or other special events, Le Fresnoy opens 30 minutes before the film.
If you’re interested in checking out other contemporary art exhibits near Lille, look no further than the Piscine Museum. Known as much for the unique venue—an Art Deco-era former municipal swimming pool—as its knockout collections, this cultural space is known for its vast array of textiles. It also features rotating temporary exhibits that spotlight modern and contemporary artists both from Northern France and abroad.
