Outings and activities when the weather is bad, grey or cold!
Three drops of rain or a dreary weather will not stop us from going outside! Here are our suggestions for exits and ofactivities (cultural or recreational) to do with your children and teenagers in Paris and in the suburbs on rainy days: museums, temporary exhibitions, visits to monuments or castles, concert workshops, movies or more original Rex Studios or FlyView where the Catacombs of Paris (with teens).

Ideas in Paris, if it rains...
Ideas outside Paris, if it rains...
Exhibitions in Paris at the moment
- Fragile!? (for 2-6 year olds), at the Cité des Sciences
- Musicanimale (from 6 years old) at the Philharmonie
- Maya Ruiz-Picasso, daughter of Pablo (from 7 years old), at the Picasso Museum
- Mini Monsters (for 7-12 year olds) at the Jardin des Plantes
- Special Forces(from 10 years old) at the Musée de l'Armée


Guided tours in the shelter
- Family visits in museums
- A private visit to the Louvre
- The storytelling tour ?A love of opera?
- The guided tour in covered passageways
- The guided tour behind the scenes of the Stade de France
- The Garnier Palace (Paris Opera) ? Self-guided or guided tour
- The guided tour The last covered passages of Paris?

Family concerts
Several concert halls and theaters offer concerts for young audiences to introduce them to classical music, jazz and symphonic music. There are very few dates and it is advisable to book in advance as soon as the programs are released.
- Jazz and Snack at Sunset Sunside (children's concerts)
- Snack concerts at the Pochette Musicale
- Baby concerts at the Salle Gaveau
- The Philharmonie de Paris in family
Going to see animals
- The Great Gallery of Evolution (in the Jardin des Plantes, 5th)
- The Aquarium of Paris Cineaqua (at the Trocadero, 16th)
- The Aquarium of the Porte Dorée (in the 12th)
- SeaLife Aquarium (next to La Vallée Village, in the 77)


Museums and art
- The Louvre (inescapable)
- The Orsay Museum (we can't get enough of it)
- The Georges Pompidou Centre (inescapable)
- The Orangery Museum (great)
- The Picasso Museum (on a human scale)
- The Jacquemart-André Museum (one of our favorites)
- The Rodin Museum (and his beautiful garden)
- The Cernuschi Museum
- Dalí Paris, a museum dedicated to Salvador Dalí
- The Nissim de Camondo Museum
- The Museum in the Wild (with little ones)
Museums and history
- The Army Museum and the Dôme des Invalides
- The Pantheon in family
- Museum of the Legion of Honor and orders of chivalry
- The Nissim de Camondo Museum
- The Catacombs of Paris (with pre-teens and teens)
- The Archaeological Crypt of the Parvis de Notre-Dame

