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Discovery pause

Family area

Until April 27th, 2025
Espace familles
© Musée de l'Orangerie

The Family Area at Musée de l'Orangerie is accessible year-round during museum opening hours, weekends, public holidays, and school vacations for zone C in France.

 

For children aged 0-12 and accompanying adults, the Family Area offers a chance to take a break and enjoy a sensory-based and creative experience of the artworks in the Musée de l’Orangerie collection. Designed to introduce our youngest visitors to art and critical observation, this free-access area offers a unique approach through a variety of activity centers focused on experimentation, touch and play, providing an educational and entertaining experience for all visitors.

Family Area
Family area
© Musée de l'Orangerie
 
A dive into the watery ambiance of the Water Lilies

The Family Area was designed to meet the various needs of families, with play, relaxation, drawing, reading and listening to stories, for various age groups, from infants to adolescents. The setting is directly inspired by Claude Monet’s Water Lilies and his garden in Giverny.
Beyond the colors, there are numerous references to the painter’s environment, and to the use of aquatic motifs. tables in the shape of water lilies; a textured floor that reproduces the reflection of circles in the water; benches with cushions forming ripples.
 

Various activity centers, for ages 2 and up and ages 5 and up

Touch-based activities are offered throughout the area.
Experiment as a family on the subject of Claude Monet’s Water Lilies and a selection of artworks from the Orangerie collection on the theme of figures.
Use your senses: observe, touch and listen.

 
A reading corner

Together you can discover the various play and educational resources revolving around the Orangerie’s collection.

 
Sound nooks

Immerse yourself through sound in the museum’s artworks by listening to the podcasts Promenades imaginaires and other audio creations.

 
Workshops

Continue to immerse yourself in the Musée de l’Orangerie’s works by following the perspective of Anne Brugni. Using materials designed by the artist, these workshops invite you to work as a family to create variations of the Water Lilies.

© Musée de l'Orangerie / Anne Brugni

 

 

Open during museum opening hours:

  • Weekends
  • Public holidays
  • During school vacations for zone C in France

Freely accessible, on presentation of a museum entry ticket. Limited to available space.

 

Upcoming dates

March
  • Saturday 08 March 9.00am
  • Sunday 09 March 9.00am
  • Saturday 15 March 9.00am
  • Sunday 16 March 9.00am
  • Saturday 22 March 9.00am
  • Sunday 23 March 9.00am
  • Saturday 29 March 9.00am
  • Sunday 30 March 9.00am
April
  • Saturday 05 April 9.00am
  • Sunday 06 April 9.00am
  • Saturday 12 April 9.00am
  • Sunday 13 April 9.00am
  • Monday 14 April 9.00am
  • Wednesday 16 April 9.00am
  • Thursday 17 April 9.00am
  • Friday 18 April 9.00am
  • Saturday 19 April 9.00am
  • Sunday 20 April 9.00am
  • Monday 21 April 9.00am
  • Wednesday 23 April 9.00am
  • Thursday 24 April 9.00am
  • Friday 25 April 9.00am
  • Saturday 26 April 9.00am
  • Sunday 27 April 9.00am
Next visit
Saturday 08 March at 9.00am
Duration : 9h
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Tarifs
Time slot full rate
€12.50
Time slot reduced rate
€10
Enfant & Cie
€10
- de 18 ans, - de 26 ans résidents EEU
Free

 

Ouvert aux horaires d’ouverture du musée les week-ends, les jours fériés, pendant les vacances scolaires de la zone C.

 

En libre accès, sur présentation d’un billet d’entrée au musée. Dans la limite des places disponibles.