Exhibitions / Tickets / Shop
Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 12:30 pm and from 1:30 pm to 6 pm.
Due to the current high temperatures and to make it easier for the public to access air-conditioned spaces:
• Following a decision by the President of the EPCC Cité du design – Ésad Saint-Étienne, admission to the exhibitions at La Platine and the Galerie nationale du design is free until and including Sunday 28 June 2026.
For air-conditioning reasons:
• La Platine’s opening hours have been adjusted until Sunday 28 June 2026 inclusive.
Room A (exhibitions ‘Créer un vase’ and ‘Local Tools’)
→ open during normal opening hours: 10.00 – 12.30 and 13.30 – 18.00
Room B (exhibitions ‘Anaïs Borie’ and ‘Recto verso’)
→ open in the mornings only: 10.00 – 12.30
→ closed in the afternoons
Closed on Mondays as well as on January 1, May 8, Ascension Thursday, July 14, August 15, November 1 and 11 and December 24 and 25 (reopening on December 26, 2025 at 10 am).
Médiathèque
Tuesday to Thursday from 11 am to 6 pm, Friday from 11 am to 5 pm.
Summer hours and information :
• 04 77 47 88 02
• mediatheque@esadse.fr
Matériauthèque - Temporarily closed More information
Cité du design
3, rue Javelin Pagnon
42000 Saint-Étienne
France
Tel. : +33 (0)4 77 49 74 70
Mail : info@citedudesign.com
By foot: fifteen minutes from the City Hall Square
By bike: self-service bikes
By streetcar: Cité du design, Tram T1 and T2 stops
By car :
- Zenith Parking (210 parking spaces, free of charge)
- Parking Stade Geoffroy Guichard (200 parking spaces, free of charge)
- Parking Houdin (50 parking spaces, free of charge)
- Parking Treyve (155 parking spaces, free of charge)
- Rue Javelin Pagnon / Pablo Picasso (55 parking spaces including 1 for disabled person, paid parking)
- Rue Salvador Dali (75 parking spaces including 1 for disabled person, paid parking)
- Place Carnot (48 spaces including 4 for disabled persons, paid parking)
Accessibility:
- Toilets for people with reduced mobility
- Possibility of providing a wheelchair
- Contact us with Acceo, video-interpreting application (simultaneous translation) for deaf or hearing-impaired persons. Available on smartphone, tablet or computer.