Our Favorite Museums Offer Amazing Workshops

Heading to a museum to visit exhibitions, check. But did you know that your favorite cultural spots offer creative and highly engaging workshops all year round? It's THE best cultural outing to do solo, with friends, or with family! From getting initiated to art at the Louvre, meditating at the Musée d'Orsay, learning sculpture at the Rodin Museum, participating in a tea ceremony at the Musée Guimet, or creating jewelry at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, it's all here…

• Zen Visit : one wouldn’t think of meditating in a museum. And yet! The musée d’Orsay offers the whole family a visit between yoga and meditation in the hidden rooms of the old train station and in front of its greatest Impressionist masterpieces. Namasté! From 6 to 12 years old with two adults max per child. Until June 15. From €4. Online reservation.
• Hundred percent Van Gogh: there’s no age to discover the colorful works of Van Gogh! The little budding painters will be able to learn to reproduce the artist’s wheat fields or sunflower bouquets after a visit of the permanent collections. A must. From 6 to 12 years old until September 17, €6. Online reservation.
• ArtetSens: why not take advantage of a visit to the museum to get a shot of synesthesia? In these participatory and creative activities, a contemporary artist accompanies you to approach the collections in a sensitive way through singing, dancing or drawing for a visit full of meaning and emotion. From 16 to 99 years old until June 11. Online reservation.

• Le Studio Louvre Couture: on the side of the most glamorous exhibition of the moment Louvre Couture, the most famous museum in the world has opened Le Studio! On the program: everything to play it like Lagerfeld. Independently, one makes a splendid personal brooch, weaves inspired by Rabih Kayrouz or embroiders cards inspired by the most splendid pieces and works of the expo. And in April, one creates a paper outfit on a mannequin… Until July 21, free with museum entrance ticket.
• Draw in the garden: we rediscover the delightful Tuileries Garden with this drawing workshop. The goal: sketch your most beautiful drawings of plants, trees, and other statues, and outshine the most beautiful works of the Louvre by drawing in the great sun. April 19, May 3, and May 17, €12. Online reservation.
• Little creatives: Living still life: kids can also do great art! This activity is the perfect opportunity to reveal the talent that lies dormant in every child. The young aesthetes will enjoy visiting the museum and reinterpreting the most beautiful still lifes. Every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m.
  Every day during school holidays zone C at 3 p.m. (except Monday). From €9. Online reservation.

• Tea ceremony: no need to travel all the way to Japan to participate in a tea ceremony. Meet in the splendid garden of the Hôtel d’Heidelbach to taste one of the most refined aspects of Japanese lifestyle according to the traditions of the Japanese tea ceremony school Omotesenke or the Urasenke school. For adults, Saturdays May 10, 17, 24, and 31, and June 14, €18. Online reservation.
• Koi carps: in Japan, one wishes children to have the strength of a fish! To instill it in them, kids learn to cut, fold, paint, and color koi carps out of paper to then make them fly. From 7 to 12 years old, Thursday April 24 at 2:30 p.m., €9. Online reservation.
• Garden on a tray: for a zen moment with the family, we go for the design of the cutest pocket-size garden! With landscape designer Hiroko Endo, we learn to place adorable pebbles on fine sand for a miniature park that’s super harmonious. Saturday April 26 at 2:30 p.m., €15 for adults, €9 for children. Online reservation.

• My little pocket bear: Impossible to resist so much cuteness: we enjoy the sweet exhibition Mon Ours en Peluche to make our own stuffed animal and above all our new best friend. From 7 to 10 years old, places available May 28, June 11, 18, 25, €12. Online reservation.
• Crazy jewelry: the Musée des Arts décoratifs owns the largest jewelry collection in France with pieces dating from Antiquity to today. Taking inspiration from these masterpieces of goldsmithing, this workshop allows children to create a brooch or pendant full of fantasy. Beads and rhinestones galore! From 4 to 10 years old, April 18, 22, 25, 30, May 7, June 4, €12. Online reservation.
• A well-crowned head: calling all future great monarchs! This workshop offers to make the most royal crown in flowers or gold to rule them all. A workshop for kids, hoping the power doesn’t go to their heads. From 4 to 10 years old, June 25, €12. Online reservation.

The Atelier Rodin reopens its doors for a third season in the heart of the sublime Musée Rodin. The key words are: play, create, move! Before or after the visit of the museum and its lush garden, we go into this big unique space that invites young and old (from 3 years old) to discover and understand the work of Auguste Rodin through several themes. In the “Hands-on” space, we learn to model, pose, and use the tools of an artist to create our own sculpture. We can also get started with life-size drawing in the “To your pencils” space or simply play, read, and move like a model in this unique place. Finally, “What a Story!” is a reading space in a garden decor, “In movement!” a workshop to learn sculpture by engaging the body.

Open from Tuesday to Sunday until August 31 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free entry, no reservation, with an adult holding a museum entrance ticket. Online information.

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