Activities at the Museum of Music for 4 - 7 year olds
Workshop visits, for 4 - 6 year olds :
Several dates:
- SOUND IN THE PAWS
- 1,2,3,4...SEASONS
- DRAGONS IN THE MUSEUM
- WHO WANTS TO PLAY WITH ME?
- MUSICAL GOOSE GAME
- THE WORLD TOUR OF THE LITTLE EARS
- THE CONCERT OF ANIMALS
Visits Workshops in family, for the 4 - 7 years :
- LET'S PLAY IN THE MUSEUM (several dates throughout the year)
Thematic mini-concerts in several areas of the museum and musical workshops in the afternoon for families. The museum entrance ticket allows access to the museum and to the promenade concerts. Free for children under 26.
Tales in the museum, for 4 - 12 years old :
A storyteller and a musician invite children to discover instruments through the magic of the tale. A dialogue between words and music where humor, tenderness and humanity meet. A family activity
- TALES OF THE SINGING WOOD September 25
- TALES OF NATURE October 2
- TALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD October 9
- FANTASY STORIES November 13
- CHRISTMAS TALES December 4
Promenade Concerts, from 4 years old :
The concerts-promenades allow musicians, storytellers or dancers to take over the museum by offering concerts, performances, workshops... The museum is thus a place of music and living art, where encounters and discovery are born.
- TALES AND BESTIARIES (from 4 years old) - Sunday, November 20 at 2:30 and 3:30 pm
- MUSEUM IN FESTIVAL (from 4 years old) - Sunday, December 18 at 2:30 and 3:30 pm
The Music Museum's activities for 7 - 12 year olds
Workshop visits, for 7 - 12 year olds :
Several dates:
- INSTRUMENTS AND TRADITIONS OF THE WORLD
- THE BIRTH OF SOUNDS
- FILM MUSIC
- A LITTLE COMEDY
- IN THE ORCHESTRA OF THE SUN KING
- THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Workshop visits, for all, from 10 years old :
Tales in the museum, for 4 - 12 years old :
A storyteller and a musician invite children to discover instruments through the magic of the tale. A dialogue between words and music where humor, tenderness and humanity meet. A family activity
- TALES OF THE SINGING WOOD September 25
- TALES OF NATURE October 2
- TALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD October 9
- FANTASY STORIES November 13
- CHRISTMAS TALES December 4
Workshops - Exhibitions :
The exhibition-workshops invite families to share a moment of discovery and musical games around the themes of the exhibitions. They are concluded by a short presentation of the exhibition, which the participants can then visit freely.
- ORCHESTRANIMAL (as a prelude to the visit of the exhibition Musicanimale) : for the whole family, from 7 years old
- THE SOUND OF FELA (in the context of the exhibition Fela Anikulapo Kuti) : for the whole family, from 10 years old
Concerts - Walks, for 6 - 12 years old:
The concerts-promenades allow musicians, storytellers or dancers to take over the museum by offering concerts, performances, workshops... The museum is thus a place of music and living art, where encounters and discovery are born.
- AFROBEAUT (from 8 years old) - Sunday, October 16 at 2:30 and 3:30 pm
- FRANCIS GERMAINE DARIUS AND THE OTHERS (from 8 years old) - Sunday, January 29 at 2:30 and 3:30 pm
- BANDS IN FESTIVAL (from 8 years old) - Sunday, February 19 at 2:30 and 3:30 pm
- TALES AND PUPPETS OF JAVA (from 6 years old) - Sunday, March 19 at 2:30 and 3:30 pm
- BLUES BASQUIAT (from 6 years old) - Sunday April 16 at 2:30 pm and 3:30 pm
The music museum
The Musée de la Musique is located in La Villette, in the Cité de la Musique, 300m from the Philharmonie de Paris. It has one of the finest collections of instruments in the world, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
- More than 7000 works and objects are exhibited at the Museum of Music
- The museum presents the works in chronological order: the birth of opera, the music of the Enlightenment, romantic Europe, the acceleration of history...
- The last room is dedicated to to instruments from all over the world
- Exceptional pieces Paganini's violin, Chopin's piano, Berlioz's, Brel's, Brassens' and Django Reinhardt's guitars, Grappelli's violin
- Every day, a musician plays and presents his instrument
- The Museum of Music offers many activities for children and teens