• Present exhibition   Under construction  
 

Red

Introduction: the colour Red

Red = Alarm signal

Red = Festivity signal

Red = Life signal

Red in nature

Red = Color signal

Red Show

Red Tales

Red = Love signal

Red = Emotion signal

   
   

 

Red

The colour Red is special among colours. 
The brightest of colours, it is THE colour. 

Red is at once beauty and horror, fascinating and frightening. It is the colour of vital forces, of life, or fervour and of courage. 

There is a Red which invigorates, allows, designates, attracts, there is a Red which burns, kills, erases, punishes and forbids. 

It is by means of this Red colour that the staff of the Children's Museum has chosen to develop its new exhibition. 

The exhibition is divided in 5 chapters, the basic idea being:

Red is the colour of Signal.


 
 
 
   

 

Introduction: the colour Red

Introduction: the colour "Red".

 Let's play with colours! 

 

Psychomotricity games and construction games with colour modules.

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Red = Alarm Signal

Let's discover that anger is an alarm signal, a basic emotion which makes us "see Red".

 

 

Interactive games based on the various emotions, learning and recognising the physical signs, the causes and the reactions to anger, dissociate anger and aggresivity.

 


 
 
 
   


Red = Festivity Signal

Let's travel to China, where the colour Red is a symbol of luck and happiness.

It is the colour of the New Year

 

 

Games and role playing to understand that colour is a cultural phenomenon which is experienced and defined in different ways according to different societies.

Chinese and international cooking workshop.

 

 

 
 
 
   


Red = Life Signal

Let's follow the course of blood, this blood which enables us to live: it flows, oxygenates, protects and cleans.

 

 

Interactive games on the flow of blood, its composition, bacteria. Entering the Red Cross bus.

 


 
 
 
   


Red in Nature

Let's discover the colour Red in nature, where it plays a special part, attracting or rejecting.

 

 

Games on the eyesight of animals, on fruits and vegetables throughout  the seasons.

 


 
 
 
   


Red = Colour Signal

Let's enter the Art Museum to discover that the colour Red has a special place which attracts the eye.

 

 

Creative games based on artists' works, comparing different reds, warm or cold colours, composing one's own painting, entering the light cube.

 


 
 
 
   


Red =Show

Let's open the red curtain of the theatre to express our emotions.

 

 

The theatre workshop.

 


 
 
 
   


Red Tales

Let's listen to these stories come from olden times in which red plays an important part.

 

 

The Fairy Tales workshop, its big book and its mysterious room.

 


 
 
 
   


Red = Love Signal

Let's try to define this very strong feeling which invades us and makes us become very red.

 

 

Games and video show.

 


 
 
 
   


Red = Emotion Signal

Let's lift the veil off these very red emotions: pride and shame.

 

 

Games and discussions to dissociate pride in one's achievements and pride in oneself, shame and guilt, to understand that we are all different.

 


 
 

 

 
     
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
     
 
   
 
       
 
 

Le Musée des Enfants
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