Storytelling tours in Paris – Opéra Garnier, Musée d’Orsay, Galerie de l’Évolution

Description

What if your next team-building event took the form of a show? Or better still: a dramatised tour of one of Paris’s magical venues. The majestic Paris Opera, the Palais Garnier, the Musée d’Orsay or the Grande Galerie de l’Évolution.

A tour… and a storytelling walk through a legendary venue! Enjoy a unique, immersive experience!

Do you dream of following in the footsteps of a Paris Opera ballerina, a young painter or a researcher of the future? With our storytelling tours, it’s possible.

Our secret? We invite you to an exceptional venue! Following in the footsteps of illustrious figures, our actor-storytellers will take you on a journey through time.

Capacity: Up to 29 people.

Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes

Choose from 3 storytelling tours:

A LOVE AFFAIR WITH OPERA – Immersion at the Palais Garnier=> All year round!

Florie, Marion and Suzanne have shared the same dream since childhood: to become dancers at the Opéra Garnier. For years, they worked hard, hoped and made sacrifices… until the day the doors of the Palais Garnier finally opened before them.

But when it came to making their dearest wish, standing before a mysterious statue at the Opera, none of them asked to become a dancer. Each made a completely different choice.

Today, one of them invites you to discover her story in *Un Amour d’Opéra*.

Itinerary

For our guided storytelling tour, we have chosen an exceptional setting, of the sort Paris has so many… Ever since it was built, the Palais Garnier has been a legendary venue: from the Fountain of the Pythia to the Grand Staircase, via the vast, richly decorated nave.

Languages: French or English

Meeting point: On the corner of Rue Scribe and Rue Auber, 75009 Paris. (At the foot of the Charles Garnier statue)

Metro: Opéra station (Lines 3, 7, 8) / RER A: Auber

ORSAY AND THE FORGOTTEN PAINTING – An immersive tour of the Musée d’Orsay

Marion Bonin, a tour guide and great-granddaughter of an Impressionist painter, is searching for the origins of her family’s passion for painting. She traces it back to her ancestor, Édouard Bonin, who was introduced to painting by a mysterious artist he called ‘Maestro’… and who is said to have depicted him in a painting, now housed at the Musée d’Orsay. But which one? And who is the Maestro?

Help Marion solve the mystery, from painting to painting!

How it works

Moving from gallery to gallery, the tour begins with the academic and realist works against which the Impressionists had to fight, then continues with paintings by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Caillebotte and Van Gogh, each of which provides a clue. Museum admission ticket included (permanent collection).

Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes

Languages: French or English

Meeting point: In front of the Group Entrance (Entrance 2.4) of the Musée d’Orsay, Esplanade Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, 75007 Paris.

AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY TO THE GALERIE DE L’ÉVOLUTION

In the Grande Galerie de l’Évolution, you’ll meet Lila Marck, a tour guide unlike any other… Her gaze seems imbued with knowledge from another world: she’s from the future! Her mission? To trace evolution back to its origins to understand how to save the future.

The giant squid, monkeys, elephants, insects and extinct species all provide clues… The countdown has begun: the future of the planet could depend on what you’re about to discover!

What to expect

A guided walking tour through the Grande Galerie de l’Évolution, combining the observation of specimens, scientific discovery and an investigation. Admission ticket included (permanent exhibition).

Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes

Language: French

Meeting point: In front of the main entrance to the Grande Galerie de l’Évolution, 36 rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, 75005 Paris.