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Virtual tours, games: during the holidays, go to the museum… while staying at home!

2021-02-17T17:58:24.906Z


Museums are closed, but are increasing online initiatives to maintain links with their audiences, especially the youngest. And s


Museums, like the whole world of culture, are impatiently awaiting the date when they can reopen their doors.

In the meantime, they offer tours, games and various activities on their websites.

Here is a selection, which should delight young and old.

Visios galore at the Quai-Branly museum - Jacques-Chirac

The site specializing in the arts and civilizations of Africa, Oceania, Asia and the Americas, in Paris (7th arrondissement) comes out the big game during these holidays by offering an “afterwork” every other day at 6 p.m., storytelling tours, conferences - conversations, workshops.

In total, around forty meetings live, online and by reservation.

The “Other Toy” workshop offers an introduction to the game of string, invented by the Inuit, and in “Painting the dream”, participants are inspired by works and myths from Australia.

“Everyone has their own tastes” asks you to point out to the guide an intriguing object, before trying to discover what gives it its value in its culture of origin.

The museum offers activities every day of these holidays for families and children aged 6 to 12, for example with storytelling visios that will take them to Africa in music.

Two tours are also available from 12 years old.

One will talk about rites and initiations and the second, in the form of a conference-conversation, about differences.

Single price of 6 euros per connection.

The museum even schedules two DJ set evenings for its Africa 2020 season.

Complete program on

quaibranly.fr

Literary game at Maison Balzac

Balzac corrected his novels in this house on the Coteau de Passy, ​​in Paris (16th century).

His small house transformed into a museum offers a literary game and the decorator's workshop.

A way in texts and images to discover "the Human Comedy", by inserting the characters into their sets.

In this six-part literary series, the reader puts himself in the shoes of a character to decorate the rooms of the house, the living room, the study, the place of power of the man in the 19th century, the boudoir of the lady, the dining room, bedroom, garden.

We choose the furniture, the material and the color of these Balzacian interiors, then the children are invited to print, cut out and color the period furniture by arranging them to their liking on a sheet.

Information on

maisondebalzac.paris.fr

In the masterpieces of Orsay and the Orangerie

The Les Petits M'o site allows families to enter the most famous rooms of Orsay and Orangerie in Paris.

An aerial visit in drawings, with the gardens, a navigation according to the paintings, according to a chosen theme.

Portraits of artists, families, small and large animals, decorative arts or Degas at the opera.

The paintings and objects are displayed, and we click on the photo to find out more.

You can choose to discover the museums by artist, by period or by work.

The exhibitions devoted to Aubrey Beardsley and Léon Spilliaert, which were unable to reopen to the public, are also visible on YouTube through the voice of their curators.

Information on www.petitsmo.fr.

Origamis and flash visits to the Air and Space Museum

It houses 600,000 objects at Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis) and exhibits 120 aircraft in a gallery renovated in 2019. In its “the museum comes to you” tab, the Air and Space museum offers origami planes, rockets, shooting stars, quizzes, virtual tours, exhibitions on the air war in Verdun or on three pilots in the Great War.

3-minute guided tours allow you to discover the helicopter project developed in the 19th century by Ponton d'Amécourt (who coined the word for this flying machine), the 150th anniversary of the siege of Paris, or the nacelle of the huge airship La France on display at the museum.

The most specialized will appreciate the scientific conferences.

Information on museeairespace.fr.

Writing workshop at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris

Bring out the power of words around the exhibition “The Power of My Hands”, with Laurence Verdier, author, visual artist, curator, who offers a free writing workshop for 15-18 year olds, Wednesday February 24 from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (registration by email: mamevenement@gmail.com).

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Two creative workshops will amuse 6-10 year-olds, on Chagall's blue from his painting “the Dream”.

Sheets, paint, brushes, children superimpose ink stains, cut them out, glue them.

Taking inspiration from the painting “the Dance” by Matisse ”, it is also necessary to create a fresco by cutting out colored leaves.

Children from 1 to 6 years old have the right to make spinning tops.

Information on mam.paris.fr.

More than 25 workshops at the Petit Palais

The audio speakers' favorites, tutorial workshops to discover a work and make a distant imitation at home, the program is rich.

The Petit Palais has put more than 25 workshops online with detailed downloadable sheets.

We make funny masks, a Chinese dragon, a precious box or a fantastic animal.

Information on www.petitpalais.paris.fr.

Virtual Chanel and 19th century patrons at the Fashion Museum

The Palais Galliera is offering a virtual tour of the “Gabrielle Chanel, Manifeste de la mode” exhibition.

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The exhibition “Gabrielle Chanel, Manifeste de mode” continues on screen thanks to a virtual tour led by journalist Monique Younès and guided by curators Miren Arzalluz and Véronique Belloir.

The museum offers acrostic and calligram workshops to form drawings from words, or the game of 7 dressmakers, from 7 years old.

Fans of more than vintage clothing can draw inspiration from 190 “Illustrated Fashion” patterns, from 1860 to 1920, digitized by the museum, to make unique clothes.

Information on www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr.

Puppets and gendarmes on display at the National Gendarmerie museum

You can visit in a 4-minute film the current exhibition at the National Gendarmerie Museum, in Melun (Seine-et-Marne), “The Gendarmes burst the screen”.

The site also offers to discover the museum in 360 degrees and to take advantage of past exhibitions, such as the one devoted to animals in the gendarmes, or "Draw me a gendarme".

For these holidays, the museum has posted tutorials on how to make a policeman's puppet, a Fimo puppet and a "Once upon a time in cinema" flip book.

If you do not have the equipment, the museum will send you a kit at 5 euros to carry out the workshop.

Information on: gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr.

... AND PODCASTS FOR THE YOUNGEST

Claude Ponti tells the story of the monsters in Orsay.

Béatrice Fontanel imagined stories for children (from 5 years old) from a painting or a sculpture from the Musée d'Orsay.

Marie who poses in front of the terrible Mr. Degas, Augustine who dreams of becoming a prima dancer, the nonsense of Pasha the cat… Claude Ponti has written a series of five podcasts (from the age of 7), Au pays des monstres, by being inspired monstrous sculptures by the artist Léopold Chauveau, presented last year in Orsay.

Effassensonge, the sponge that erases worries is told by Ariane Ascaride, her heart bent and her “funny” pranks by Bérénice Bejo.

On the petitsmo.fr and epmobox.musee-orsay.fr websites

Paris resonates.

This podcast from the City of Paris museums invites 7-12 year olds on sound walks that highlight a place, its history, its anecdotes, its works and the artists associated with it.

Bourdelle Museums, Modern Art, Romantic Life or even artists' studios ...

On the Parismusees.paris.fr website.

The Louvre Odyssey.

Great characters, archaeological discoveries, incredible flights… The Odyssey of the Louvre delves into the museum's stories that blend with the history of France.

Starting from 7 years old.

On the Louvre.fr website.

Source: leparis

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