Tours and workshops

For each of its shows, La Villa du Parc publishes an accompanying gallery guide of the featured artworks that provides you with lots of information about the project on view along with the biography of the artist(s). The texts help you to situate yourself from one gallery to the next with a map of the exhibition layout and the artworks on view, while offering more detailed information on each piece that takes the place of traditional wall labels.

Please let us know if you are interested in a self-guided tour and its accompanying brochure.

Tuesday through Sunday, 2:00 pm to 6:30 pm, free admission
For further information: mediation@villaduparc.org

Three tours are programed throughout the run of each show – days and times will vary. These tours are led by a Villa du Parc docent and sometimes are a chance to meet the exhibition curator and/or the artist or artists involved (guided tours run on average 90 min.).

Admission: 3 euros, free to members of La Villa du Parc and children under 12.
You can find all the dates of upcoming interactive tours at l’agenda

Throughout the school year, our exhibitions can be used as an educational tool that becomes an integral part of school programs in the fine arts and more generally the visual arts. But contemporary artworks involve a number of fields that largely go beyond any purely artistic framework and draw on all scholarly disciplines, from literature and history, to geography, science, and more. Touring an exhibition, in this or that exchange with an artist or docent, students of all ages develop their eye, stumble on a surprising piece of art, learn, and examine what they know or think they know through the many questions raised by the approaches taken by today’s artists.

For further information, see our page Education artistique

Exhibition tours are adapted to all official groups, including workers’ groups, associations, recreation centers, clubs, etc.

A behind-the-scenes discovery tour for every group, age, and audience. What is the difference between an art center and a museum? How do you mount an art exhibition? What are artistic professions?

Discover artworks gracing public spaces:

Christophe Cuzin “Légers décalages” (Slight Offsets) – Red façade of La Villa du Parc
Christian-Robert Tissot “Fastback” – Montessuit parking lot
Michel Ventrone “La porte d’harmonie”(Harmony Gate) – Place Alexandre Moret

La Villa du Parc regularly offers workshops in musical initiation for babies and toddlers from 3 months to 3 years old. The workshops are run by Morgane Frémaux, who holds a degree in stage design from École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, another in tuba from the Conservatoire d’Amiens, and a third in musicology from the Université de Paris 8.

Built around the exhibitions featured at La Villa du Parc, these musical initiation workshops invite families to discover contemporary art through music. They help to awaken very young children’s senses in three areas, touch, hearing, and sight. For parents, the aim is to share a special moment with their child while offering them a few elementary keys and tools for approaching both music and contemporary art.

La Villa du Parc offers arts and philosophy workshops designed for children from 6 to 12 years old. Taking as her starting point the works of art featured in the show currently running, the artist and philosophy workshop host Céline Ohannessian helps kids to reflect and articulate their ideas. Each participant in turn will speak up, debate, and give their point of view.

Through a few invented instructions, Marie-Pascale Saillet invites you to see and then write about the artworks in the show currently on view.

You can find the dates of the next workshops at l’agenda