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Cité des Enfants, Paris

Museum Half day difficulty: Easy with kids: yes

Inside the great City of Science in Paris, a space made to a child's measure for experimenting with water, light, sound, and building. There's an area for the littlest ones and another for older kids, with a construction site where they operate real cranes and channels to play with water.

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The City of Science in Paris is one of the largest science museums in Europe, and its children's part, the Cité des Enfants, is divided by age so each one plays with experiments suited to them.

With kids

Operate real cranes and pulleys at the construction site
Play with channels, locks, and mills in the water zone
Experiment with light, shadows, and mirrors
Build structures and test whether they stand up

Accessibility: Separate zones for ages 2-7 and 5-12; entry is by timed session

With family

Choose the zone according to the ages of the children in the group
Afterward, walk the rest of the huge science museum
See the great silver spherical cinema outside, La Géode
Stroll through Parc de la Villette on the way out

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