The All Saints’ vacation is the perfect time to spend with the family. And that’s just as well, because Paris is overflowing with a wide variety of activities and experiences. Immersive exhibitions, playful experiences, spellbinding shows… We’ve put together our top picks for you. Follow the guide!
Meet Caillebotte’s men
📍 Address: Musée d’Orsay
Esplanade Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, 75007 Paris
📆 Date: from 08/10/2024 to 19/01/2025
🎟️ Admission: €16
Costume party for dogs in Paris
For Halloween, the Buddy Buddy café is organizing a fancy dress party for dogs. Come dressed up (or not) and enjoy the great atmosphere. All proceeds from the evening will be donated to the SPA. It’s a fun and useful way to celebrate Halloween with your family.
📍 Location: 15 Rue de Marseille, 75010 Paris
🗓️ Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2025, 6pm to 8pm
Treat yourself to a FRIENDS™ revival this All Saints’ Day!
At Galeries Montparnasse, the friendliest bunch of friends on the small screen invite you to spend a memorable moment in the sets of the FRIENDS™ series to recreate the most iconic scenes, from the fountain in the credits “I’ll be there for youuuuuu!” to the One where Joey moves out, including all those in the mythical Central Perk Café. It’s the perfect place to take shelter and have fun at the same time.
📍Location: Galeries Montparnasse, 22 rue du départ (Paris 15), 75014
Explore a magical illuminated trail
For the duration of the All Saints’ Day vacations, the Espace Rambouillet opens its doors to you with an immersive nocturnal journey that’s like nothing you’ve ever experienced before. Conceived as a celebration of Autumn with tales and legends, this animal and forest park takes you on a dreamlike experience of a thousand and one lights, inviting you to set off and meet the spirits of the forest. In the evening, young and old alike can stroll along an illuminated nocturnal trail, and during the day, take part in workshops and storytelling, marvel at equestrian shows or a free-flight presentation of birds of prey.
📍Address: Espace Rambouillet, Rte du Coin du Bois, 78120 Sonchamp
📆 Date: All All Saints’ Day vacations
🎟️ Admission and reservations here
Visit the giant One Piece pop-up store
The anime celebrates its 25th anniversary! For the first time in Paris, a giant pop-up store dedicated to Luffy and all his friends opens in October! You’ll find a café, a free photobooth and exceptional figurines straight from Japan! Don’t miss it!
📍Location: 101 rue Réaumur 75002 Paris
📆 Dates: October 19 to November 2, open daily from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Visit the Salon du Chocolat, the place to be for gourmets in Paris
A must for epicureans and brown gold seekers from Paris and beyond. The Salon du Chocolat – Paris will take place in the capital from October 30 to November 3, 2024 at the heart of Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles. Show cooking, a parade of chocolate dresses, sculptures, competitions, exhibitions, new encounters, discovery workshops, tastings… A mouth-watering program sure to delight young and old alike!
📍Venue: Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles
🗓️ Date: October 30 to November 3, 2024
Take an immersive journey with the Gauls
Help Asterix and his friends find Panoramix, who has mysteriously disappeared! The irreducible Gauls arrive at the Atelier des Lumières to take young and old on a thrilling adventure! This immersive exhibition will plunge you into the world of Uderzo and Goscinny’s famous comics! You have until early January to take part in this quest and find the Druid!
📍 Address: Atelier des lumières
38 rue Saint-Maur, 75011 Paris
📆 Date: 18/10 to 5/01/2025
🎟️ Admission: €17
Get your fill of discoveries at Kidexpo
One of the biggest family events! With game previews, introductions, creative workshops and meetings with associations, Kidexpo is the event designed for children and their parents. All the players in the children’s/family sector come together here every year, so if you’re looking for ideas for Christmas gifts or to keep your little ones busy, go ahead!
📍 Location: Paris – Montreuil Expo
128 rue de Paris, 93100 Montreuil
📆 Dates: from 24 to 27/10/2024
🎟️ Admission: €12/14 (adults) and €6/8 (children)
Take advantage of 50% discounts at restaurants in the capital
Now’s the time to eat out! Thanks to the reservation app TheFork, some Parisian and French restaurants are lowering their prices! Choose from over 300 restaurants in the capital, enjoy your meal and save 50% on your bill! Italian cuisine, Asian cuisine, bistros, Indian restaurants or crêperies… There’s something for everyone!
📍 TheFork Festival
in several participating restaurants (Paris/IDF + France)
📆 Date: until 24/11/2024
Play with your visual perception at this exhibition
French street art pioneer Speedy Graphito invites you to question your relationship with images! In his exhibition, La Grande Illusion, the artist plays with our visual perception! Playful, colorful and immersive… Discover his works at Fluctuart, the capital’s floating urban art center!
📍 Location: Fluctuart
2 port du Gros Caillou, 75007 Paris
📆 Dates: until 22/12/2024
🎟️ Admission: free
Dive into zombie culture at the Musée du Quai Branly
Thanks to Zombis. La mort n’est pas une fin? you’ll know all there is to know about the “undead”! The Musée du Quai Branly is devoting a fascinating exhibition to this figure of popular culture, whose origins lie in the Haitian voodoo religion!
📍 Address: Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
37 Quai Jacques Chirac, 75007 Paris
📆 Date: from 8/10/2024 to 16/02/2025
🎟️ Admission: €14
Discover the fascinating Witch Festival in Paris this All Saints’ Day
The Witch Festival invites you to explore witch culture at Ground Control on October 26. Immerse yourself in an immersive marketplace of creators, with workshops and animations to awaken the witch in you. At the crossroads of magic, feminism and nature, this unique event celebrates the world of witches just a few days before Halloween.
📍Location: Ground Control, 81 Rue du Charolais, 75012 Paris
🗓️ Date: October 26, 2024
Discover an ephemeral pop-up store dedicated to the Ghibli universe
Ghibli fans will be thrilled by the opening of a pop-up store in the Marais district, offering a range of new and collector’s items. This ephemeral store is a veritable Ali Baba’s cave, offering music boxes, figurines and rare goodies. Don’t miss this opportunity to immerse yourself in the magical world of Hayao Miyazaki.
📍Location: 37 rue de Rivoli, 75004 Paris
🗓️ Dates: October 19 to December 31
Spend a night at the Musée Grévin
On the night of November 2, stroll through the galleries of the astonishing Musée Grévin. Meet show-business personalities, legendary actors and virtuoso musicians, and embark on an unusual nocturnal tour. Professional comedians will be on hand to give you a night to remember! Every first Saturday of the month, from 7.30pm to 1am, more than 250 celebrities come to life in an exceptional staging specially designed for these unique visits in a Musée Grévin that’s more alive than ever. Interaction, magic tricks, dancing, singing… You’ll be amazed.
📍Location: Musée Grévin, 10 Boulevard Montmartre, 75009 Paris
🗓️ Date: November 2, 2024
Spend a lovely afternoon at Paris’s very first café for dogs
Discover the Bone Appart café, a unique space for dogs where you’ll find croissants and drinks specially designed for them. Owners can also enjoy a variety of coffees! We recommend the house vanilla latte, which is just delicious. A place where your four-legged friends will be pampered like kings.
📍 Location: 9 rue Birague, 75004 Paris
🗓️ Opening hours: Mon Wed – Fri 8/17h, Sat 9/17h, Sun 9/15
Be mesmerized by the Fondation Cherqui, the world’s largest collection of kinetic art.
Highly Instagrammable spot alert! One of the world’s largest collections of optical and kinetic art (an artistic movement based on the aesthetics of movement) is located near Paris. In the heart of the Fondation Cherqui, discover over 5,000 optical works. A unique and absolutely unusual place (the former pharmacy of Jean Cherqui, initiator of generic drugs in the 80s and a great collector), perfect for adding color to your Instagram or Tik Tok feed.
📍Location: Fondation Cherqui, 61 Rue Lécuyer, 93300 Aubervilliers
Treat yourself this All Saints’ Day with the Buffet des Merveilles
Trick or treat? If you’re looking for a gourmet treat this Halloween, this is the experience for you. The Buffet des Merveilles arrives at the Sweet Bazar Experience in the first arrondissement with an absolutely gargantuan all-you-can-eat buffet. On the menu: sweet and savory delights, brunch classics, a Tea-Time with an assortment of 4 mini-pastries, one hot and one cold drink… There are also workshops worthy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where you can learn how to personalize a chocolate bar, and a photo studio to immortalize the moment with your family.
📍Location: Sweet Bazar, 133 Rue Saint-Denis, 75001 Paris
Visit the Aquarium de Paris, the must-see for sea lovers
With mermaid shows, an aquatic cinema and a shark tank, the Aquarium de Paris is an extraordinary way to add a marine dimension to your Paris excursion. Discover over 13,000 exotic and local species. Angelfish, clownfish and triggerfish… You’ll see it all! Bonus: children can touch the fish or take part in live feeding.
📍Location: 5 Av. Albert de Mun, 75016 Paris
Travel through science at Bercy
At the crossroads between amusement park and science museum, Science Expériences takes an entertaining approach to science. Here, you can have fun while learning, through innovative activities such as virtual reality, video-mapping and other interactive activities. The tour is an invitation to travel and a veritable whirlwind of experiences: from the farthest reaches of the universe, to the depths of the abyss, via the center of the Earth, to end on themes of quantum physics (lasers, teleportation, levitation).
📍Location: Science Expériences – Bercy Village 75012 Paris
Go to a museum with your kids
How about taking time out over the vacations to learn something new? Paris is full of really cool museums to take your little ones to: Musée du Chocolat, Musée Grévin and many more…