Fun and creative activities

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!

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.

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!

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!

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)

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....

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.

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!

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