Activities for children and families

 

 

 

Understand, learn and be enthralled by touching the archaeological discoveries - the museum offers tours and activities especially designed for children.

Discover archaeology as a family; explore the museum from an original and entertaining angle!

We offer activities especially for you on Wednesdays, weekends and school holidays.

Please have a check on the schedule to prepare your visit.

 

 

 

 

 

Young public
 

Train your child's ear learning prehistory in french with our entertainers!

 

Quirky tours

 

Duration: 60 mins

For 5 to 7 year olds

For little explorers, the museum has some marvellous discoveries...

Miming the Artworks
This tour offers the very young visitor a first look at art. Children learn to look at the works, to understand them and to decipher them by personalising them through mime.

I’m a little Cro-Magnon
I’m a little Gaul
I’m a little Gallo-Roman
I’m a little Merovingian

By becoming a prehistoric child for a moment - Gaul, Roman or Merovingian – children can find out about the environment, daily activities and way of life of our ancestors, and see the museum’s collections in a new light.
 

 

Workshops

 

Duration: 120 mins 

Advance booking required
on: +33 (0)1 34 51 65 36 or: contact[at]musee-archeologienationale.fr

For 6 to 10 year olds

Paint like Prehistoric Man
Explore the themes and techniques of painting in Palaeolithic times, and produce an individual coloured work, then a collective fresco.

For 7 to 10 year olds

Animals in Prehistoric Art: the Bison engraved in Clay
A new approach to prehistoric art, starring the bison against a backdrop of the animal world

For 8 to 12 year olds

The Use of Clay in Neolithic Times: Ceramics
The time machine takes you back 8,000 years to the era when you were a potter in one of the early Neolithic villages.

An Archaeological Excavation Workshop
This workshop offers an introduction to the work of the archaeologist           

For 9 to 12 year olds

Mosaics in Roman Gaul (duration 2 hours 30 mins)
This workshop retraces the history of mosaics, from the pebbles used by the Greeks to the tesserae used by the Romans, who took this art to its height.

 

 

 

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 Family

 

Guided tours are in french. The children must be accompanied by an adult.

 

Exploration tours

  

Thematic tours

 

For 7 years or over

Duration: 60 or 90 mins

• The First Hunters (Palaeolithic Period)
• The First Villages (Neolithic Period)
• Living in the Time of the Gauls
• Life in the Gallo-Roman Campaigns 
• Gods and Heroes in Gallo-Roman Antiquity
• At the Dawn of the Middle Ages

Story tours

 

For 7 years or over

These tours explore the museum collections through stories. These are staged, and illustrate myths and legends...

In prehistory: Cut Stone, Polished Stone 
Stories from Siberia... Come and hear stories filled with poetry that speak of spirits and men lost in nature Listen carefully and you will hear them whispering...

In the Neolithic section: The Cat who Walked by Himself 
A story based on Rudyard Kipling’s novel. How did Man manage to domesticate animals? Why did wild beasts let themselves be tamed? These are the questions that, for over a century, archaeologists have been asking as they research the archaeological remains of the Neolithic era...

In the Bronze Age section: The Iliad and The Odyssey
The Trojan War lasted for almost ten years. This was a confrontation between Achaeans from all over Greece and the Trojans and their allies. Opposite the fortified city, hundreds of Greek ships were pulled up on the beach and served as an encampment...

In Roman Gaul: The Golden Ass 
Based on a text from Apuleius (2nd century AD). Follow the adventures of the young Lucius as he travels to Thessaly on business.

Duration: 60 mins

By prior reservation only during school holidays (summer holidays excepted)
on: +33 (0)1 34 51 65 36 or: reservation.man[at]gmx.fr