Holidays at the Orsay museum

Fun and creative activities

Until March 02nd, 2025
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Enfant avec un masque, entre 1840 et 1856
Musée d'Orsay
Achat, 2023
© Musée d’Orsay, dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Sophie Crépy
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During the winter vacations, the Musée d'Orsay's salle des fêtes is transformed into a place of discovery, creativity and wonder for the whole family. Every day from February 15 to March 2 (except Mondays), from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., free, open-access activities allow everyone to discover the collections in different ways and at their own pace.

For this vacation season, activities offer children the chance to discover architecture and urban planning through an immersion in the history and evolution of the city of Paris. These are all opportunities to illustrate how art and architecture have intertwined to shape the modern urban landscape.

Accordéon
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Kaplas

Kapla enthusiasts will be at the museum's Salle des fêtes to build an impressive model of one of the museum's facades before your very eyes! You too can imagine and build the craziest Kapla architectures!

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Practical art activities

Come and meet our visual artists: they'll guide you in the creation of a participative fresco around the posters that shaped the city's appearance in the second half of the 19th century.

You can also give free rein to your creativity and imagine yourself as an architect for a day, reinterpreting the museum's works of art, thanks to the creative materials on hand, which lend themselves to the desires of young and old alike.

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Pop-up and model

With a few snips of scissors and dabs of glue, you can build a model of the Musée d'Orsay or a pop-up of the nave! The impressive glass roofs of the old station, its majestic hall and its magnificent clock, witnesses to the industrial and architectural history of the 19th century, will no longer hold any secrets for you!


A. C. T. Architecture, Musée d'Orsay, maquette du projet ACT Architecture
A. C. T. Architecture
Musée d'Orsay, maquette du projet ACT Architecture, vers 1986
Musée d'Orsay
Mode d’acquisition inconnu, s.d.
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / René-Gabriel Ojéda
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Games

In this area, giant family games await you: a memory game, a jigsaw puzzle inviting you to reconstruct the architecture of Monet's Gare Saint-Lazare and construction games immerse the whole family in the museum's collections!


Claude Monet, La Gare Saint-Lazare
Claude Monet
La Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877
Musée d'Orsay
Legs Gustave Caillebotte, 1896
© Musée d'Orsay, dist. GransPalaisRmn / Patrice Schmidt
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Podcasts

Discover four episodes of Promenades imaginaires, a podcast specially designed for children aged 7 and over. Author Béatrice Fontanel draws inspiration from paintings in the museum to imagine stories that take them on a journey through time... (Podcast in french)


Promenades imaginaires
Promenades imaginaires
DR
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Lunii (3-6 years): my paintings to listen

The little ones can sit in the story hut and discover with Lunii the stories imagined by author Anne Cortey around the museum's works: a panther, a look-alike of Pompon's sculpture, a young dancer, inspired by a Degas sculpture, or little Albert in search of his father, a floor planner who has forgotten his lunch....


© Musée d'Orsay / Allison Bellido
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Reading corner

Every day from 2.30 to 4.30 pm, volunteers from the "Lire et faire lire" association will be on hand to read to budding visitors, giving them the chance to take a break and let their imagination run riot.


© Musée d'Orsay / Allison Bellido
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Do we keep a souvenir of the vacation?

Strike a pose and have your photo taken as if you were exploring the rooftops of Paris, or send a souvenir postcard at the Musée d'Orsay!

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The vacation "cocotte

Explore the collections with your family in complete freedom thanks to the vacation "cocotte"!

"Cocotte"
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Upcoming dates

February
  • Tuesday 18 February 10.00am
  • Wednesday 19 February 10.00am
  • Thursday 20 February 10.00am
  • Friday 21 February 10.00am
  • Saturday 22 February 10.00am
  • Sunday 23 February 10.00am
  • Tuesday 25 February 10.00am
  • Wednesday 26 February 10.00am
  • Thursday 27 February 10.00am
  • Friday 28 February 10.00am
March
  • Saturday 01 March 10.00am
  • Sunday 02 March 10.00am
Next visit
Tuesday 18 February at 10.00am
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Musée d'Orsay
Ballroom

Room 51, Level 2
Map & itinerary
Tarifs

Free upon presentation of a Museum admission ticket, registration onsite, subject to available places.
Come with the children and benefit from the Enfant & Cie rate.