A fascinating and very playful exhibition
For all audiences, from 6 years old
At the Monnaie de Paris (Paris 6th)
For all audiences, from 6 years old
At the Monnaie de Paris (Paris 6th)
- WE LIKE: a playful, very visual and surprising exhibition that will fascinate children and adults alike
- AGE: For everyone, from 6 years old
- DURATION : 1 hour / 1 hour 30 minutes
- WHEN: Until March 1, 2026
- WHERE: At the Monnaie de Paris (Paris 19th)
- OPENING HOURS :
- Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
- Wednesdays until 9 p.m.
- Open on December 25 and January 1, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
- weekends of 20-21 December, 27-28 December, 3-4 January: opening from 9 am
- CLOSED : Mondays
- PRICE : €17 for adults – €14 for young people (13-18 years old) – €10 for children (3 – 12 years old)
“M.C. Escher” the fun exhibition that invites you to observe
- The Musée de la Monnaie presents the 1st retrospective in France of the master of optical games and illusion
- It’s about time! A little-known artist, Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) has long fascinated mathematicians, if not the art world
- His work, extraordinarily technical, is playful and fascinating: he transforms a fish into a bird, draws impossible stairs that take you down as you climb them, plays with perspectives and constantly tricks our brain.
- The beautiful drawings and engravings all play with perspective and give the impression of entering a giant puzzle
An exhibition that will also appeal to children
- The exhibition is playful in its content, but also thanks to several interactive installations that allow you to play with the works.
- We are invited to substitute our head for that of the artist in a painting and then to take a picture of ourselves. We enter a room where neither the floor nor the ceiling are square, which makes a child placed on one side appear much taller than the adult next to him…
- Children will love looking for hidden details, understanding why “it doesn’t work” and being surprised by optical illusions
A very nice exhibition, intriguing, fun and intelligent
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