Fun Museums for Your Children

Paris

Interesting Museums for Children and Parents. Paris is full of great museums and some are specially designed for children to discover art and develop their creative or scientific curiosity.

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Centre Pompidou>>

The Centre Pompidou houses the National Museum of Modern Art and the Children's Gallery perfect for 2-12 year old children. The building itself, with it's bright colors, exterior escalators, and modern design will fascinate kids, as will the outdoor square with the street performers. Children's Gallery is a 300 m2 area situated on the ground floor and there are supervised activities as well with workshops on Wed and Sat from 14.30 - 16.00. The café George on the lst floor has a spendid view over Paris.

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Musée en herbe>>

An art museum located close to Place de la Victoire and especially geared towards children, complete with interactive games to develop their artistic interest and knowledge. 600 m2 with different animations, art workshops and dress up games playing with the imagination and curiosity of the children.

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La Cité des Enfants>>

La Cité de Enfants at Cité des Sciences is a great interactive museum with a space of 1,700 m2 open to children ages 2 to 7 and 5 -12. This is a unique space for active experimentation and exploration proposes a series of fun and educational activities divided into five thematic areas: "I discover myself", "I can do", "I locate myself", "All together", "I experiment". Many new activities on identity, emotions, image comprehension, non-verbal communication, spatial representation, etc.

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Musée de la Poupée>>

The Musée de la Poupée-Paris, place of amazement, discovery or nostalgia presents more than 500 French dolls from 1800 to 1919 in settings that will enchant the children as well as the adults.
The Musée de la Poupée-Paris organises, all year long, activities for children and adults related to the permanent collection and the temporary exhibits going on. A good way to discover the toy world differently. You can also find a Doll Hospital, where you can get your old dolls repared and fixed!

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Palais de la découverte>>

Your older kids will be thrilled at the science museum. Here you can learn and see live experiments in different fields. Interesting fro both parents and children.