– REOPENING, AFTER 6 YEARS OF RENOVATION –
A museum to discover or rediscover with the family
- WE LIKE : the new scenography and a big crush on the model room
- AGE : all audiences, ideal from 3 years old
- DURATION : about 1h30
- WHERE : at the Palais de Chaillot, Place du Trocadéro (Paris 16th)
- FREE : for children, under 26 years old EU nationals
- OPENING HOURS : from 11am to 7pm every day except Tuesday
- CLOSED : Tuesdays
- LATE-NIGHT : Thursdays until 10pm
With its breathtaking view of the Eiffel Tower, the National Maritime Museum is located in the heart of the Palais de Chaillot, Place du Trocadéro. It is next to the Musée de l’Homme.
The National Maritime Museum offers visitors an immersive journey through the seas and oceans. Dedicated to the marine world, more than a thousand restored works are highlighted by means of a spectacular scenography.
The museum is designed as a vast playground that piques curiosity and where science meets art and history. While preserving the mystery of the seas, we enter a world made of journeys and adventures, storms and shipwrecks… where ancestral legends are told to us….
The National Maritime Museum, an immersive museum…
- New experiences await visitors of all ages with “La Boussole”, an application to discover the collections in a different way.
- The young audience course , which directs the children to the sound of a siren’s voice, is particularly successful.
- You are immersed from the beginning of the tour; The visit begins by entering through a ship’s bow. A real journey to discover the seas and oceans, to go far and wide to meet the explorers and navigators who have been crisscrossing the maritime world since theseventeenth century.
- You can also discover the seabed, the navigation tools, the boats and their impressive sculpted figureheads, or an entire room of magnificent ship models.
- On the program, astonishment and fascination. And perhaps the visit will inspire vocations!
- The National Maritime Museum raises awareness, especially among the youngest, of environmental problems, the major role that the seas play in the climate and the fragility of ecosystems.
Family activities at the National Maritime Museum
Family visits and workshops all year round (the presence of an accompanying adult is mandatory)
- 0-3 years old – Storytelling tour – the journey of Bulle – a sensory walk
- 3-5 years old – Visit-workshop – Sailor’s face – the discovery of emblematic characters
- 3-5 years old guided tour – Boats on the water – sailing on the water, floating without sinking?
- 3-5 years old Storytelling tour – Zoo on board – nursery rhymes in the world of the animals on board
- 3-12 years old Visit-workshop – All sails out – observe and understand a boat, make a paper sailboat and participate in the baptism ceremony
- Guided tours for ages 6-12 – Secrets of the ocean – an imaginary journey
- 6-12 years old – Send the colors – an investigation in the museum to decode the secret language of the ships’ pavilions
The Compass: the smartphone application for visiting the museum
- The young audience trail: a mermaid invites children to walk through the museum’s rooms and discover the little secrets of the works – ideal from 7 years old
- The immersive tour: sketches and storytelling sound memories take you into the world of seafarers
- The Must-See Trail: thanks to a variety of content, you will discover the museum and its emblematic works: video animations, sound tracks, interviews, images, etc.
- The Offbeat Journey: Embarking on a journey through time through the navy in history. Old works are confronted with contemporary productions – (ideal for young adults 18-30 years old)
- A la carte: all you have to do is scan the pictograms on the labels to discover about sixty sound animations, video interviews, images
Stay tuned! Many other activities will be to be discovered, you will have to consult the museum’s program regularly: conferences, readings, concerts, national events …
The collections and the National Maritime Museum
- It is a magnificent collection offered to Louis XIV that was first installed in the Louvre from 1752 to 1793 and from 1827 to 1939
- The Palais de Chaillot was built for the 1937 Universal Exhibition and replaced the former Trocadero Palace
- From 1943, what is now the permanent collection of the Musée de la Marine was exhibited in the Passy wing of the Palais de Chaillot
- Currently, the Musée de la Marine in Paris holds 30,000 objects and works of art, including paintings by Joseph Vernet devoted to views of the ports of France, figures of prows, more than 2800 models of ships from all eras – and in particular sailing warships from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries
- The new scenography has also given pride of place to the magnificent decorated stern of Louis XIV’s La Réale galley, which dates from 1694
- the public establishment that manages the museum has branches in Brest, Rochefort, Toulon and Port-Louis, all museums dedicated to the maritime world
