– Free event –
Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 June 2023
Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 June 2023
- Age: for children from 4 years old
- Where : at the Cognacq-Jay Museum
- We like : Guignol shows, sculpture workshops, animation visits and game trails to discover the collections at a child’s level
- When : Saturday, June 10 and Sunday, June 11, 2023
- Opening hours : from 2 pm to 5:15 pm
- Prices : free access to all weekend activities, subject to availability
A free family event
For a weekend, The Cognacq-Jay Museum is organising two free family days. Parents and children will be welcomed to discover the museum’s collections thanks to a programme specially designed for families!
Guignol shows, sculpture workshops, an animation visit and a game trail are planned on the program. There will even be a speaker! Two beautiful days in this place with eighteenth-century charm, peaceful and hushed intimacy. A vast playground for children who will experience life “in another century”.
The program of the family weekend at the Cognacq-Jay Museum
Saturday, June 10, 2023
- At 2:15 pm, 3:15 pm, 4:15 pm and 5:15 pm, for 3 years old and + : Guignol show “Les Valets à la porte” given by the Compagnie Les Marionnettes dell’ Arte (20mn)
- At 3:30 pm, for 4+ year olds : family sculpture workshop (1h30)
- At 4 pm and 5 pm from 5 years old and + : visit-animation “Enigma at the museum: in search of the wolf!” (30 mins)
Sunday, June 11, 2023
- Self-guided game trail: all day, with the distribution of quizzes and an exploration notebook to discover the museum’s works
- From 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.: a speaker will be there to answer all the questions that young and old have alike!
The Cognacq-Jay Museum: the taste of the eighteenthcentury
- The Cognacq-Jay Museum was inaugurated in 1929. It preserves the collections bequeathed by the founder of the Samaritan department stores Ernest Cognacq (1839-1928) to the City of Paris. The museum was named Cognacq-Jay in memory of his wife Marie-Louise Jay.
- But it was in 1990 that the museum moved to the Hôtel Donon, in the heart of the Marais. Previously, it was located in a building next to La Samaritaine.
- The collections correspond to the taste of an eighteenth-century amateur, who is rightly called the “Grand Siècle”.
- The Museum therefore exhibits a reflection of time: a collection of paintings, sculptures, Saxon porcelain, goldsmith’s work and stamped furniture.
- We admire with delight a rare early painting by Rembrandt, paintings by Boucher, Fragonard, Chardin, but also the taste for Italy with paintings by Tiepolo, Canaletto or scenes of time that the facetious Louis-Léopold Boilly tells us in the aftermath of the Revolution.
