Shows, mini golf, exhibitions… The best things to do with children in Paris

Would you like to find activities for the whole family to do in Paris? Fun exhibitions, immersive experiences, ceramic workshops… The city is packed with plans for young and old. The editorial team shares its ideas for family activities in Paris.

Visit the hidden abbey of Chaalis and its rose garden

This sublime abbey, nestled 45 minutes from Paris, is pure wonder for the eyes. From May to June, enjoy its magnificent hidden rose garden, and all its plants on 3,500 m².

📍 Location: Dom. de Chaalis, 60300 Fontaine-Chaalis
🗓️ Date: Open every day from April¹ to September 30, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Visit the first permanent Pokémon store

Alert to all Pokémon fans! A permanent corner has just opened in Paris at Le Coin des Barons. You’ll find everything your collector’s heart desires: plush toys, trading cards, rare items… In short, go for it!

📍Location: 48 bis rue de Rivoli 75001 Paris

Enjoy a green family holiday on a magnificent estate

Situated less than an hour from the capital, Château de Villiers-le-Mahieu and Maison du Val open their doors to you for a week or a weekend in the great outdoors ! During the vacations, you’ll be able to enjoy a wide range of activities with your children! On the program: yoga classes for grown-ups, a gourmet snack for kids or a bike ride for all! An enchanted interlude perfect for refocusing on the essentials.

Discover the best immersive exhibitions to do with children in Paris

Paris is definitely the city of culture! And there’s no shortage of activities to keep the whole family entertained! Escape games, mini-golf, walks, free exhibitions… For an even more memorable experience with your children, discover the best immersive exhibitions in Paris. Our favorite? L’Atelier des Lumières pays tribute to The Little Prince! This exhibition will plunge you into a world that’s dreamlike, childlike and poetic!

📍 Location: 38 Rue Saint-Maur, 75011 Paris
🗓️ Date: from April 11, 2025

Plunge into the Viking Age at Carré Sénart

Somewhere between a theme park and a traditional museum, Cité Immersive Viking stands out for its spectacular immersive dimension. A powerful argument when it comes to capturing the attention of the youngest visitors. Digital video mapping projections, 360-degree spatialized sound, smoke machines, smells, monumental decors. .. everything has been designed to immerse them in Viking history. A perfect activity to do in between shopping at the Westfield Carré Sénart shopping center.

📍 Location: Westfield Carré Sénart – allée du Préambule, 77127 Lieusaint, France
📆 Date : mutliples dates
🎟️ Price: from €0 to €11.90

Discover the powers of light in this immersive exhibition

An immersive exhibition, Into the light will immerse you in light! A sound installation, visual displays and a monumental light sculpture will play with your senses and blow your mind! Until the end of August, this major exhibition will showcase the works and creations of several artists and collectives at the crossroads of contemporary art, music and technological prowess!

📍 Location: 211, avenue Jean Jaurès, 75019 Paris
📆 Date: April 9 to August 31, 2025
🎟️ Price: €19.90 full price / €17.90 concessions / €14.90 children aged 4 to 11

Take the family on an immersive adventure

Looking to get them interested in history? Napoléon: L’épopée Immersive takes up this daring challenge! Head to Galeries Montparnasse for the most fun history lesson they’ll ever have! The teacher is none other than the emperor himself. Put on your virtual reality headset and change the course of history by taking part in the greatest events of the Napoleonic era.

📍 Location: Galeries Montparnasse, 22 rue du Départ, 75012
📆 Date: multiple dates
🎟️ Price: from €17 to €22

Put your foot in art

Talking to children about art isn’t always easy! This venue in the Ateliers Gaité knows this, and has designed a space at children’s height to get them interested in art, culture and stimulating their creativity. Le Bouillon Kids is an art gallery, a play area and a creative and artistic workshop all in one! A place where children can learn and have fun with art!

📍 Location :80, avenue du Maine, 75014 Paris
📆 Date: Wednesday to Sunday (10 a.m. to 7 p.m.)
🎟️ Price: admission €5

Lunch on a Japanese train

If you can’t go to Japan, you can come to a piece of the archipelago! For the past few months, you’ve been able to treat yourself to a meal in the setting of a Japanese train, the Shinkansen! With its minimalist, retro-futuristic aesthetic, pastel tones, curved lines and dishes that scroll past on the rotating counter, the Matsuri restaurant on Rue de Bac is the destination that will surprise and delight children!

📍 Location: 74 Rue du Bac, 75007 Paris

Take a break in one of the capital’s super kid-friendly cafés

They’re springing up all over Paris! Kids-friendly cafés, which are often open to everyone, are the new HQs for families and young parents! Equipped with childcare equipment, play areas and workshops, they’re also great places to meet up, sip good coffee and enjoy delicious homemade dishes and pastries (with versions for the little ones).

📍 Location: Paris

Introduce children to art at a new venue

Welcome to Le Grand Coloriage, the new place where children’s artistic culture can grow! An exhibition space with a program of meetings and workshops for children and families, this place is sure to please art-loving tribes!

📍 Location: 19, rue de Seine, 75006 Paris
📆 Date: Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
🎟️ Price: free admission

Cruise the Seine with the bateaux-mouches

You’ve already explored Paris on foot, by bus or even by bike, but have you ever thought of visiting it from the Seine? A cruise on a bateau-mouche will offer you spectacular views of the City of Light and its most famous sites! The Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and the Louvre will pass before your (amazed) eyes like a postcard scenery come to life!

📍 Location: Embarcadère des Bateaux Mouches, near Pont de l’Alma, 75008 Paris
📆 Date: several dates
🎟️ Price: €16 full price / €7 child price

Give your children free tickets to Parc Astérix

Planning a trip to the Gauls? If there’s a child in your tribe, you’ve hit the jackpot! This spring, Parc Astérix is offering free admission for children from April to May! You’ll be able to enjoy the park’s most sensational attractions, take selfies with Asterix and Obelix, and spend a memorable day in the world of the famous comics!

📍 Location: Paris

Celebrate 100 years of Disney with an exhibition

This spring, head to the Parc Expo at Porte de Versailles for the Disney100 event. Themed rooms, interactive installations, excerpts and the presentation of several objects from archives will transport you immediately into the magical world of Disney productions!

📍 Location: 1 Place de la Porte de Versailles, 75015 Paris
📆 Date: April 10 to September 30, 2025
🎟️ Price: from €19.90 for children / €24.90 for adults

Enter the animal world of the Paris region

Do your kids love animals? Take them on a discovery of the creatures that live in Paris, and maybe even nest next door to you! From mid-January onwards, Bercy Village will be exhibiting the work of an animal photographer who reveals and sublimates wildlife in the urban environment! Fox cubs, owls and squirrels will be up close and personal!

📍 Location: Cour Saint-Émilion, 75012 Paris
📆 Date: January 16 to June 1, 2025
🎟️ Price: free admission

Try your hand at fluorescent mini golf

It’s a new activity coming to Paris, and it’s sure to appeal to all members of the family! Ocean 12 is a twelve-hole indoor course that will plunge you into the darkness of the ocean floor! But don’t panic, you’ll be guided by fluorescent lights!

📍 Location: Cour Saint-Émilion, 75012 Paris
📆 Date: open every day
🎟️ Price: €16/20 full price and €12/15 for children

Escape to Middle-earth

This is the event that will delight all J.R.R. Tolkien fans, young and old! Starting in March, the Collège des Bernardins, a sublime place in itself, will host a collection of remarkable tapestries created by a specialized workshop! Fifteen of them will be on display, accompanied by a program of events to celebrate Tolkien!

📍 Location: 20, rue de Poissy, 75005 Paris
📆 Date: March 21 to May 18, 2025

Immerse yourself in the history of teddy bears

A star of children’s bedrooms, a fashion icon, an inspiration to artists and even an emblem of environmental protection, discover the history, evolution and many facets of the iconic teddy bear! The MAD (Musée des Arts Décoratifs) is dedicating an exhibition to him until June!

📍 Location: 107 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
📆 Date: December 4 to June 22, 2024
🎟️ Admission: €15 full price / €10 concessions / free for under-26s

Take part in the Neon Brush Kids painting workshop

Spend an afternoon with the family at a fluorescent painting workshop held over the weekend in the 10th arrondissement. Under the UV lamps, colors come to life and light up, the atmosphere takes on a new twist and your imagination expands tenfold. Share an artistic activity with your children thanks to Neon Brush Kids, and take your masterpiece home with you.

📍 Location: 38 Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, 75010 Paris
📆 Date: several dates

Family fun in one of Paris’ many escape games

How about a family challenge? In Paris, there’s no shortage of escape games where you can have a great time! Discover the best escape games in Paris to do with your kids.

📍 Location : Paris

Dig your brains out at the Cité des Sciences

La Cité des Sciences is a cheerful melting pot of activities combining scientific culture and cultural leisure. Through educational spaces, exhibitions, a library, workshops and scientific games, the Cité des Sciences offers an unlimited range of didactic activities for children. Linking science to major social debates, it sheds light on the issues raised by technical progress and innovation, as well as those related to ecology, economics, ethics and geopolitics.

📍 Location: 30 avenue Corentin Cariou, 75019 Paris
📆 Date: open all year round
🎟️ Price: €13 full price / €3.50 to €10 for children

Take your family to the Aquarium de Paris, the world’s oldest aquarium

What better way to see your children marvel than at the oldest aquarium in the world? The Paris Aquarium is not only the oldest, it’s also the largest in the capital! It’s a great opportunity to discover rare species with the whole family, and to create some wonderful memories.

📍 Location: 5 Avenue Albert de Mun, 75016 Paris
📆 Date: open all year round
🎟️ Price: €21 to €27.50 full price / €0 to €20 for children

Put your hand to the dough and treat yourself at Sweet Bazar

The temple of gourmet delights exists: it’s on rue Saint-Denis! Pushing open the pastel-colored doors of this gourmet paradise is like plunging into a world of marshmallow clouds and chocolate fountains. It’s a bit like winning the golden ticket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Le Buffet des Merveilles, at the Sweet Bazar Experience in Paris’s 1st arrondissement, is the place where anything goes. An all-you-can-eat buffet brimming with sweet and savory delights, workshops to learn how to create your own chocolate bar, colorful photocalls… Young and old alike will love it.

📍 Location: 133 Rue St Denis, 75001 Paris
📆 Date: open all year round
🎟️ Admission: paid tastings and workshops

Feast your eyes on the Grande galerie de l’évolution

It’s a must-see for children… and adults! Since its opening in 1994, the Grande galerie de l’évolution has seen a great many children come and go! Nestled in the Jardin des Plantes, it recounts and presents the fascinating history of biodiversity, with specimens from the smallest to the largest, fossils and animal reproductions that are larger than life! The highlight of the show is, of course, the Durfort mammoth!

📍Location: 36 Rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, 75005 Paris
📆 Date: open all year round
🎟️ Price: €13 full price / free for under-26s

Dream away at a Candlelight concert

With modernized covers of classical scores and thousands of captivatingly glowing candles, Candlelight candlelight concerts are a great way to get your kids excited about classical music. Film music,Japanese anime or concerts dedicated to the greatest composers… You’re spoilt for choice when it comes to introducing your children to the beauty of classical music – the not-so-classical version!

📍 Location: several venues in Paris (and France)
📆 Date: several performances
🎟️ Admission: paying

Spend the night in the museum at Grévin

Stroll through the galleries of the astonishing Musée Grévin among show-business personalities, legendary actors and virtuoso musicians, and let yourself be surprised! From 8pm to 1am, every first Saturday of the month, more than 250 celebrities seem to come to life in an exceptional staging specially designed for these unique, 100% child-friendly visits!

📍 Location: 10 Boulevard Montmartre, 75009 Paris
📆 Date: one Saturday a month
🎟️ Admission: €38 full price / €30 concessions

Learn things at the Science Experiences museum

This new immersive museum in Bercy Village boasts no less than 850 m² dedicated exclusively to science. Halfway between an activity park and a museum, this educational space offers an entertaining way to learn about science. Thanks to innovative, immersive and interactive techniques such as virtual reality and video-mapping, in the form of an immersive trail, it offers a unique journey to the heart of science. Journey to the center of the earth, quantum physics themes (lasers, teleportation, levitation)… Visitors wander from room to room, open to new discoveries.

📍Location: 16 Cour Saint-Emilion, 75012 Paris
📆 Date: open all year round
🎟️ Admission: €22 full price / €14 for children

Admire the animals at Parrot World

Located 30 minutes east of Paris, this colorful, immersive animal park offers visitors the chance to discover the rich biodiversity of Latin America. Blue and red macaws, jaguars, ibises, guanacos, giant otters… The natural habitat of all these species inhabiting the Amazonian and Patagonian regions has been reconstituted. To keep things local, you can even offer your children the unique opportunity to spend a morning with an animal caretaker at the Children’s Ranch!

For its reopening on February 8, the park is organizing events on the theme of Carnaval de Río. A festival of surprises awaits you until March 9: feather- and bird-themed activities, guided feeding sessions… all set to Brazilian music! The perfect family activity!

📍Location: Route de Guérard 77580 Crécy-la-Chapelle

Spend some time at the Ferme de Gally Saint-Denis

This educational farm in the heart of Saint-Denis is the last remaining market-garden farm in the Île-de-France region! It offers a unique tour of the history and evolution of farming techniques through time, in the form of workshops. Come and pamper dwarf goats, dwarf pigs, chickens, sheep, rabbits or even learn how to make bread (an experience as useful as it is fun), you’re sure not to be bored at Ferme de Gally Saint-Denis. For us, this farm is one of the 50 things to do in Paris at least once in your life.

📍Location: 114 avenue de Stalingrad 93000 Saint-Denis

Attend a performance of Mon premier cabaret

This new family show created by choreographer Kamel Ouali is an original activity perfect for families. Three afternoons a week at the Paradis Latin, this show, directed by Kamel Ouali himself, invites families with children aged 3 and over to discover the festive world of cabaret. It’s the perfect way to create real star seeds!

📍Location: 28 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine 75005 Paris

Take advantage of an amusement park in Paris to have a great time with your family

What could be better than spending a day in a Paris theme park? Whether at Disneyland Paris, Parc Astérix or elsewhere, you’re bound to find what you’re looking for! Spend a day or a whole weekend laughing with your family and making memories.

📍 Location: Paris and surrounding area

Take a ride on the little train

“Tchou tchouuuu” here comes the little train! Here’s an original and fun activity to do with the whole family when the weather’s nice! Many parks have little trains, some of which are even classified! It’s the perfect way to give your Sunday stroll a vacation feel!

📍 Location : Paris

Go to Buttes Chaumont for a picnic

A park, yes, but like no other! At Buttes Chaumont, you’ll find: merry-go-round + sandpit + duck-fishing + swings + balloon merchant + puppet show + pony rides. In short, a super-complete outing for all ages!

📍 Location: Paris

Visit the castles around Paris

Our beautiful region is full of magnificent châteaux to visit. If you’re looking for a change of scenery and want to learn a little more about history with your family, we recommend a visit to one of the local châteaux: Versailles, Chantilly, Fontainebleau…

📍 Location: Paris and surrounding area