A summer at the museum

Relive the atmosphere of a 19th-century textile factory! At the musée de la Corderie Vallois, just outside Rouen, you’ll plunge back into the era when the linen, cotton and wool industry was Normandy’s leading industrial activity.

• Concert, participatory Afro ball: “Un dimanche au maquis”
  Association Testa Duende, Cie DonKaDi
  July 9 at 3pm – free
• Family storytelling and music :“Les dires de la route – récits de collectage”
  With storyteller Ulrich N’toyo and musician Sylvain Choinier, Youle Cie
  July 5 at 10 a.m. and August 20 at 3:30 p.m. (under 12s) – free
  July 23 and August 27 at 3:30 p.m. (over 12s) – free
• Workshop “From writing to theater”
  With author and director Éva Doumbia and actress Manon Chaillou
  For teenagers/young adults – free
  From July 24 to 28, 2pm to 4pm
• Stage “Fabrique ta poupée”
  With Emmanuelle Gall, exhibition guest artist
  For children under 12 – free
  July 11, 12 and 13, 2pm to 4pm

A major wool cloth production center, Elbeuf preserves a rich industrial heritage.La Fabrique des Savoirs through the museum’s collections, the holdings of the heritage archives and the CIAP’s interactive devices, presents the Elbeuf territory from multiple aspects: historical, archaeological, urbanistic and environmental.

• The museum in the street – free
  July 8 and 12, 2-6pm, Seine d’été August 30, 2-6pm, Quartiers d’été
  In connection with the exhibition Rencontres de la Seine vagabonde
  For teenagers/young adults – Free
  With photographer Coline Jourdan

Museum treasure hunt
From 5 years old – Free
July 19 at 2:15, 2:30 and 2:45 pm

Gestural tours
Artist Arnaud Caquelard tells stories with the body.
– Les animaux en quelques gestes:
Le 26 juillet à 15h
Tarif 3 € – durée 1h
– Du mouton au drap de laine:
Le 19 août à 15h
Tarif 3 € – durée 1h

• Visite bien-être parents-enfants
  A tender, playful moment between parent and child.
  Fee €3 – duration 45 min
  – Massage en comptine :
  (18 months-3 years)
  August 2 at 10am
  – Massage en histoire :
  (3-6 years)
  August 26 at 10am

• The summer of books… Literary museum gardens
  From July 1 to August 31 – Free
  Take advantageof summer to relax and read in the pleasant museum gardens.
• Yogi Yoga parent/child workshops with Claire Cornet
  Musée Flaubert et d’Histoire de la médecine – Free
  Meditation and wellbeing at Flaubert
• En jeux et en mouvement côté Corneille
  Jardin du musée Pierre-Corneille / maison des Champs – Free
  Board games are available on tables. Life-size activities are offered in partnership with Ludens.
• Passz à table avec Corneille !
  Until September 17, 2023: À la table de Corneille exhibition Musée Pierre-Corneille maison des Champs – Free
  A booklet of games and tasting activities are offered.

• Musée des Antiquités – Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle
  A new museum will see the light of day in 2028, to showcase the collections of both museums in a new light. A museum, but also a leisure space open to all, a place for living and sharing. The museum and square Beauvoisine, fields of adventure and experience to give life, together, to the museum of tomorrow.

Around the exhibition Normands. Migrants, conquerors, innovators

• Summer launch weekend at Beauvoisine:Scandinavian village and games
  Square André-Maurois – Free
  Saturday July 1 and Sunday July 2
  Reconstruction of a Scandinavian village from the year 1000, demonstration of coin minting, weaving, Scandinavian and Norman games.
  With the Vegvísir and Aisling-1198 associations.
• Ciné plein-air adultes Square André-Maurois – Free
  Saturday, July 15 at dusk
  Richard Fleischer’s Vikings, 1958
  In collaboration with the Roulotte-Scarabée.
• At children’s level
  – Discovery workshop 5-10 years: Viking cloakroom
  July 5 and August 9 at 2pm – rate €3.50 – duration 1h
  – Petite fabrique 6-12 years: Sacrés symboles
  July 12 at 10am – rate €4 – duration 1h30
  – Family workshop: Protective Amulets
  July 19 at 10am – fee €4 – duration 1h30
• A participatory garden, with Terre Étincelle
  Le Jardin des simples, square André-Maurois – Free
  With Marie-Laure Giannetti, storytelling herbologist, and Karen Yvan, nature and urban agriculture animator.
• Family sensory discovery
  July 11 and August 25 at 2:30pm
  Recognize plants with your five senses.
  
• Adult workshop – discovering medicinal plants
  July 19 (balm) and August 18 (herbal tea) at 2:30pm

Family storytelling walk
July 23 and August 20 at 3:30pm
Storytelling discovery of the garden of simples.

• Adult workshop at the simples garden
  Square André-Maurois – rate
  28 € – 2-day workshop
  July 11 and 13, 9:30
  to 12 noon and 2 to 4:30 pm
  Discover the secrets of medicinal plants and the simples gardens.
• Le jardin des tout-petits
  Square André-Maurois – fee €3 – duration 45 min
  July 20 and August 18 at 11am from 18 months to 3 years – presence of a parent required

• Family show, with Hind et Cie
  – Djamnass et les animaux de la forêt, en comptines
  July 25 at 10:30 am
  From 3 months to 10 years – rate: 3 € – duration 30 min
  – Djamnass veut guérir le monde, en chanson
  July 25 at 11:30 am
  From 3 to 12 years – rate: 3 € – duration 30 min
• A À hauteur d’enfants
  – Atelier découverte 5-10 ans: De l’eau dans mon jardin
  Les 11 juillet et 8 août à
  14h – tarif 3,50 € – durée 1h
  – Atelier découverte 5-10 ans: Les amis du jardinier
  Les 25 juillet et 22 août à 14h – tarif 3,50 € – durée 1h
  – Petite fabrique 6-12 ans : Un jouet étonnant
  Le 23 août à 14h – tarif 4 € – durée 1h30
  – Family workshop: À chacun son gobelet
  August 23 at 10am – fee €4 – duration 1h30
  Visites flash :From Pouchet to the Beauvoisine project: the museum of yesterday and tomorrow
  Ages 12 and up – Free – duration 30 min
  July 18 and August 29 at 2:30pm, 3:15pm and 4pm

The museum boasts one of France’s richest public collections with famous works executed by the greatest masters such as La Caravaggio, Poussin, Rubens, Velasquez and Modigliani. The musée des Beaux-arts regularly presents temporary exhibitions of international stature, with original themes and works of the highest quality.

• Around the exhibition Normands. Migrants, conquerors, innovators
  Until August 13
• Brick by brick with the association Les Briques en Folie
  Salle des publics – musée des Beaux-Arts – Free
  July 22 and 23, 10am to 6pm
  Ages 9 and up
  Let’s build a giant mosaic!
• Family Open-Air Cinema
  Place du Chêne Rouge – musée des Beaux-Arts – Free
  – Friday, July 21 at dusk
  Vic the Viking, created by Runer Jonsson – episode 1 – 1974 Pil by Julien Fournet, 2021
  – Saturday, July 22 at dusk
  Vic the Viking, created by Runer Jonsson – episode 2 – 1974 Brendan and the Secret of Kells
  by Moore and Twomey, 2009
  In collaboration with La Roulotte-Scarabée.
• Petites Fabriques
  For 6-12 year-olds – fee €4 – duration 1h30
  – Checkmate!
  July 10 and 17, 10:30am-12pm
  Have fun creating your own version of Lewis’ King and Queen in porcelain clay.

• Grandes fabriques
  For ages 6-12 – rate €12 – duration 3x2h
  – À l’attaque!
  July 19, 20 and 21 from 2pm to 4pm
  Collective fresco on paper.
• Bal hip-hop
  Esplanade Marcel-Duchamp – Free
  August 27 at 6pm
  With Séverine Bidaud and dancers from compagnie 6e Dimension
  In partnership with “Jours de fête”, Métropole Rouen Normandie’s summer program
• Étranges Étrangers by Cie Duo Kilombo
  Esplanade Marcel-Duchamp – Free – Family audience
  July 22 at 6pm
  A show to share with the public a moment of welcome and tolerance.
  In partnership with “Jours de fête”, Métropole Rouen Normandie’s summer program
• Family minute factory
  With a visual artist – Free
  Collaborative flash workshop
  August 19 and 26, 3-5pm

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