The family kit
Families and Children
Discover the museum's collection and temporary exhibitions with your family! You'll find all the information you need here.
Things to do during your visit
Use the Family Pack (from 3 years)
- Available free of charge at the ticket desk. For all from three years onwards.
- The Families Pack contains an educational booklet, games and objects designed to help parents and children playfully and creatively discover the museum together. The Families Pack caters for all ages, enabling you to observe, discover, learn, draw and invent your own stories…
- The Family Pack’s accompanying booklet is available in English.
Consult the Family booklet
Use the "Keys to the mahJ" kit (for children aged 6 to 12 years)
Adolescent on a visit with his father, holding the Keys to the mahJ notebook, in front of the museum's funerary steles.
Children take the keys to the mahJ to discover the museum's highlights autonomously, using sensory cards that lead them from the ideal view of Jerusalem to the paintings of Marc Chagall and the magnificent Moroccan wedding dress.
Enhance your visit with the free Bloomberg Connects app
On this app, find a special tour for families: The audios of this tour are in French, but their transcriptions are available in the language you like. Maps will help find your way around.
To know more, also find the audios of the audioguide in French, English or Spanish, and their transcription in the language you like. Of course the audio guide is also available at the ticket office.
Book a guided tour designed for families
- Take part in one of the guided tours in English scheduled from time to time. These tours are designed for children from 8 years onwards accompanied by adults. To participate, simply go to the ticket desk a few minutes before the beginning of the visit. Reduced rates for children. Two themes alternate: Discover the mahJ and Walking tour of the Jewish Marais
- These guided tours can be scheduled for groups of 1 up to 20 people, in English.
Things to know
It's really easy coming to the museum by public transport: a two-minute walk from Rambuteau station (line 11) exit #2 or five minutes' walk up rue du Temple from Hôtel de Ville (lines 1 and 11) exit #7.
The streets are narrow.
For your convenience
- Parents with young children can leave pushchairs in the cloakroom and take a baby carrier. There are nappy-changing spaces in restrooms.
- Ask to use the lifts to go from floor to floor.
- If you need to take a break after your visit, there are tables and chairs in the entrance hall and benches, tables and chairs in the main courtyard.
- The bookshop has a section of books in English.
- There is a water fountain and a hot drinks machine in the bookshop.
Around the museum
- There is a wide selection of restaurants in the surrounding district.
- You can picnic on the grass and children can play in the Anne Frank Garden, reached via Impasse Berthaud and only a few steps from the museum. From there you can admire the rear façade of the Hôtel de Saint-Aignan, home of the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme.
- Discover the Marais quarter with the Marais juif guide - a guide of this Parisian Jewish district in the surrounding of the mahJ, available free of charge at mahJ ticket desk.
Contact
> Write to us
> Phone to +33(0)1 53 01 86 53
Specific admission rates for young people
> Under 18s: free admission to the permanent collection and exhibitions.
> 18-26 year-olds living in the European Union: free admission to the permanent collection and reduced rate for the exhibitions.
> 18-26 year-olds living outside the European Union: reduced rate for the permanent collection and exhibitions.