Cité des enfants 2-7 years - Cité des enfants - Permanent exhibitions - Explore

The permanent exhibition, open to children ages 2 to 7, is a special place for adults too. For the greater enjoyment of children, this unique space for actively experimenting and exploring offers a series of fun and educational activities divided into five thematic areas.

The three major themes focus on the development of the child and their physical, cognitive and spatial skills. Your child can test their flexibility and their senses, watch themselves in the mirrors, listen to their emotions, play with balance, sounds and letters, and explore pathways and mazes, setting their body in motion.

The following two themes provide an opening to the world and to others. Your child watches, plays and experiments with physical phenomena: water, air and light. They work with other children to build a house or participate in a collective performance of a circus act.

I discover myself

Here, your children can test their flexibility, see themselves in mirrors in a hut or on a screen, and use their sense of smell and touch to find objects.

I can do

Anticipate the movement of a ball, match animals to their footprints, fix a car, balance a weeble, make sounds from letters... These are among the skills that your children can discover here.

I locate myself

Here, your children will be exploring a long circuit: crawling, climbing up and down, moving backwards, and so on.

I experiment

Water runs, evaporates, is poured, and channelled; air blows through the hair and makes objects move; light goes on, goes off, and changes colours.

All together

This is an area for interaction between children. Here, they can work together in twos or more to build a house or take part in a group show by setting a circus act in motion.