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Next edition: May 17, 2025
Next edition: May 17, 2025
Museum Night with the Family
An exceptional, enriching and free evening!
- Many museums are open for a large part of the night
- collections that are usually closed to the public can be seen
- Most of the permanent collections and exhibitions are free for all
- Some museums organize activities especially for children and families
In Paris: the program of the museum night with the family
At the Bourse de Commerce Pinault Collection (in the 1st)
- From 7 p.m. to midnight at the Bourse du Commerce – Pinault collection
- Free access to the exhibitions and the building
- 7:15 p.m./ 7:30 p.m./ 7:45 p.m., Family visit : ” “Bodies / agreements” (free access, without reservation, subject to availability) (6-12 years old)
At the Curie Museum (in the 5th arrondissement)
- From 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.
- Free admission
- 6 p.m. – Storytelling show for young audiences : “Marie Curie, magician of radium” (reservation required)
- 7:30pm-8:30pm FLASH Visits – 15+ years old “radiant with Th-Radia cosmetics” – “The Radioactive Sheet” – “Marie Curie in the United States” – The Radium Girls: when radium becomes poison” […]
- All audiences, + 7 years at the Curie Museum
Museum of Relief Plans (in the 5th arrondissement)
- From 7 pm to 11:45 pm
- Free admission
- 7pm-9pm – “Relief plans told by the children”
- 8 p.m. / 9:30 p.m. / 10:45 p.m.: “The enigmas of the relief plans” (book)
- 7pm-11.45pm: “Theatrical visits“: Louis XIV, Victor Hugo or Napoleon tell the story (book)
- 7pm-11.45pm: “Time-challenge game” for all audiences and free access
- Registration for game tours on the museum website
At the Monnaie de Paris (in the 6th arrondissement)
- From 7 p.m. to midnight
- 7 pm: Animation : “Demonstration of know-how”
- 7pm-8pm: concert with the 6th arrondissement conservatory
- 7pm-10pm: Family workshop “Gesture, speed, movement”
- 8pm-10:30pm: Treasure hunt
- 10pm-11:30pm: Architectural tour by torchlight
- 7pm-11:59pm Flash tour: “Georges Mathieu”
- 19-23:59: Live performance – Nassyo, JonOne and Lek & Sowat! Graffiti X georges Mathieu
- Entertainment without reservation and within the limit of available places at the Musée de la Monnaie de Paris
At the Petit Palais Museum (in the 8th arrondissement)
- From 6 pm to 10:30 pm – Free admission
- 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.: “Fashion Silhouettes” workshop inspired by the museum’s portraits (North Pavilion)
- 7pm-10.30pm: colourful parade mixing music, dance and comedy with the student musicians and actors of the 8th arrondissement conservatory (South Gallery) at the Petit Palais
At the Quai Branly Museum -Jacques Chirac (in the 7th arrondissement)
- From 18:00 to 23:55 (last entry 23:15)
- Storytelling walks : “Chronicle of a Griot”, “The Night of the Imagination”
- Artistic performance : “Under the stars of the griots”
- Musical visits : “Océnie in music”
- Talking points : “Arrêt sur une oeuvre”
- Continuous: Photobooth (in the hall) – pose and leave with your portrait – Sonorama playlist – exhibition of the collective fresco
- free activities within the limit of available places at the Musée du Quai Branly
At the Philharmonie de Paris (in the 19th arrondissement)
- 7:30pm-11:59pm: “A transformed museum” new presentation of the instrument collection
- 8pm-11:29pm: “Music and worlds” exploration of period instruments by students in Jazz and improv music from the Pôle Sup’ 93
- Ideal with tweens and teens
At the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie (in the 19th arrondissement)
- Discover the latest temporary exhibitions including “Dancing” (4-8 years old) and “Dogs and cats” (+6 years old), “Silence” (from 12 years old)
- At 7 pm, 8 pm, 9 pm and 10 pm: “Walk under the stars” from 9 years old
- Continuous from 8 pm to 10:45 pm to 7 pm – Animation s “Quiz en folie!” (+6 years old), “Animals are eyeing us” (+ 6 years old),
- At 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.: At the planetarium immersive shows “Between Earth and sky… the Moon” and the lights of the night (+2 years)
- 6pm-11pm: “At the Digital Crossroads” (from 8 years old), prototype, discudance, DIY, introduction to digital manufacturing, discovery of a robot, songs created by AI
- Free access from 6 p.m. to midnight at the Cité des sciences
In Ile de France: the program of the museum night with the family
A time machine
Museum of National Archaeology – Castle of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (78)
- Free admission all day
- Guided tours “Bone in all its states” on registration (1 hour): at 2:30 pm and 4:30 pm (from 8 years old)
- 1:30pm-9:30pm continuous – The collections told by the students
- 11:30 am, 2 pm: visit – conference “A remarkable castle and garden” (duration 1h30) – (from 13 years old)
- 4 pm – Guided tour of the Piette room by reservation (from 11 years old)
- 6pm-9:30pm non-stop free access – Piette room
- 5pm-8pm – Narrative walks for all audiences
- 6pm-9.30pm – History of the castle , guided walk – non-stop – free access
- 6:30pm-10pm – Painting like prehistoric men
Building your Plaisance house
At the Museum of the Domaine Marly le Roi (78)
- Free admission to the Night of the Museums
- 6:30pm-10:30pm: Workshop “Build your own house in Plaisance” – evolving collective model (from 6 years old)
- 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.: Continuous mediation of the exhibition “Pleasure Houses in the Environs of Paris, from Louis XIV to Napoleon III”
In search of the perfect perfume!
At the Urban History Museum of Suresnes (MUS) (92)
- Free admission without reservation from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
- 2pm-9pm – Visit of the temporary exhibition “Suresnes, city of perfumers”
- 5pm-9pm: Family game – Investigation accompanied by student mediators “In search of the perfect perfume!”
Vertical take-off…
Air and Space Museum – Le Bourget (93)
- Free admission
- 6pm-11pm: Flight Exhibition
- 7:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. Conservation Favorites : “Tell me… vertical take-off”
- “Concorde: the legendary supersonic aircraft“
- LEGO® Building Workshop
- Torchlight visit to the Space Hall
- Planetarium
- Flash tour: history of the museum
- Great Flying Animal Quiz
- Percussion concerts: “Maurice Ravel’s Bolero” at the Air and Space Museum
In the time of the musketeers…
At the Château d’Écouen – National Museum of the Renaissance (93)
- from 6 pm to 10:30 pm – Self-guided tour of the museum
- 6pm-10.30pm: “The Farnese cabinet reveals its secrets” – booklet – game
- 6pm-7pm: “Fencing, from the Middle Ages to d’Artagnan” ambulatory show with the Cyclone Company
- 7:15 pm and 8:45 pm: Guided tour – “Weapons in the time of the musketeers“
- 7:30 p.m./ 8:30 p.m./ 9:30 p.m.: “Louis XIII and Henri IV on horseback: the decoration of a piece of furniture“
- 7:30 p.m.: Fencing demonstration in the main courtyard
- 8 pm and 9 pm (20 min): “Henri IV and his family: around a ceramic from the first half of the seventeenth century” – unravelling the mysteries of ceramics
- 8 p.m.: Musket demonstration (courtyard of honor)
- 8:15 pm and 9:15 pm: “The games of mythology: Diane de Poitier and the Tapestry of the Story of Diana” the hidden stories of the tapestries (With Thierry Crépin-Leblond, General Curator of Heritage and Director of the museum!)
