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Top 25 Cultural institutions based in France
RevenueBase identified 138 cultural institutions headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 6,914 professional contacts across them, including 1,979 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers cultural institutions headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest cultural institutions based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 904 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Constellation Program 2025–2030: a more vibrant Centre Pompidou than ever!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Culturespaces est le premier opérateur privé d’institutions culturelles et de centres immersifs en Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lille est devenue en 2004 Capitale Européenne de la Culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “La Ferme du Buisson est un Établissement public de coopération culturelle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Figure de proue de l’île Seguin, La Seine Musicale, conçue par Shigeru Ban et Jean de Gastines, est un nouveau lieu culturel unique en son genre, pouvant accueillir tous les…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Placé en régie directe de la Ville de Strasbourg au sein de la Direction de la Culture, notre réseau regroupe -Le Musée Alsacien -Le Musée Archéologique -Le Musée d’Art moderne et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Équipement culturel majeur de la Métropole Rouen Normandie, le Zénith est un espace qui rassemble les publics et fait vivre une culture ouverte, accessible et profondément ancrée…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ARTER est une agence européenne à dimension internationale vecteur de la culture responsable, résiliente à impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “C’est dans un ancien couvent du XIXe siècle que s’ouvre ce nouveau lieu de culture permanent rassemblant musée, médiathèque et salle de spectacles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La société coopérative d’intérêt collectif Martin Luther King Grand Paris (MLK GP) fondée en 2011, gère à ce jour trois immeubles dont la résidence MLK GP (location de studios)…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Institution inédite née de la fusion du Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de la Ville de Toulouse, et du Fonds régional d'art contemporain, les Abattoirs réunissent sur site des…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “L’Usine à Chapeaux est une association socio-culturelle qui a pour objet de permettre l’épanouissement des individus à travers la culture, des initiatives sociales, des…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Petite Lune est une entreprise culturelle qui conçoit et anime avec conviction des lieux de vie socio-culturels qui portent un projet plus général de cohésion sociale et de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EBULLISCIENCE is a museums and institutions company based out of 12 RUE DES ONCHERES, Vaulx En Velin, Auvergnerhônealpes, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Soufflerie, scène conventionnée d'intérêt national Art & création, créé en janvier 2016, propose une programmation allant de la musique ancienne aux musiques actuelles, en…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “L’INSTITUT DES CULTURES D’ISLAM : CONNAÎTRE, COMPRENDRE, PARTAGER L’Institut des Cultures d’Islam est un établissement culturel de la Ville de Paris.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Superforma, des lieux complémentaires au service de la diversité culturelle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Établissement culturel de la Ville de Paris, le Théâtre 14 est un lieu de création, de rencontres et de transmission, situé dans le 14e arrondissement de Paris et dirigé Mathieu…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Implantée dans le quartier de la Paillade à Montpellier, UNi’SONS place la culture, du hip-hop aux arts du monde arabe, au cœur de ses missions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “La Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie est un Établissement Public de Coopération Culturelle au service du territoire régional, de ses habitants et de leurs institutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Le Département de l’Hérault a pour volonté de favoriser l’accès à la culture au plus grand nombre et sur tout le territoire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Le Centre Culturel André Malraux est un établissement culturel dédié aux langages et aux pratiques artistiques d’aujourd’hui.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “C’est en octobre 2008 que l'ED & N, Espace Dollfus & Noack, s’installe à Sausheim comme un lieu culturel incontournable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “La culture – sous toutes ses formes, scientifique, artistique, numérique, historique, médiatique, sportive, d’entreprise, etc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Musiques traditionnelles imaginées” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: cultural institutions. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names cultural institutions.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of cultural institutions, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name cultural institutions. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Cultural institutions based in France at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 138 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among cultural institutions, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “cultural institutions”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names cultural institutions), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among cultural institutions, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,979 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Cultural institutions by metro
- Cultural institutions in Paris27
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names cultural institutions, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many cultural institutions are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 138 cultural institutions headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Centre Pompidou, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most cultural institutions?
Paris leads with 27 headquartered companies, followed by Marseille (5) and Amiens (2).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,979 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 138 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.