Kids Corner
Because Beaubourg
24 & 25 October 2025
Free access, from 11 am to 6 pm
On level 3
Ages 5 and up
Look up, glance left and right—the pipes are no longer hiding. With the help of illustrator Loic Froissart, author of Dans les tuyaux du Centre Pompidou ("Inside the Pipes of the Centre Pompidou"), cut, paste, and colour the walls to reinvent the circuits of this giant Meccano. Today, anything is possible!
With support from Posca
Loïc Froissart studied applied arts in Roubaix, then graphic design, before working in communications. Immersed from a young age in the world of comic books, he eventually turned to children’s literature. From 2010 onwards, he began illustrating books by various children's authors, before writing his own texts and becoming a writer-illustrator.
Ages 6 and up
Conceived by architect Émilie Queney, this collective workshop invites participants to build an ever-expanding structure using endlessly combinable triangles (well, almost). It offers a playful and inventive way to explore a key principle behind the construction of the Centre Pompidou: triangulation.
An architect and spatial designer, Émilie Queney pursues both architectural practice and object design. From the very beginning, she has been deeply interested in the relationship between play and architecture. Her creative, inventive, and optimistic approach also embraces participatory methods that involve the body, collective engagement, and conviviality.
Ages 5 and up
Louise-Margot Décombas and Lucas Tortolano, from the artist collective BIENVENUE, invite you into their whimsical world. Create your own foam creature using shapes designed by the two artists. Cut, assemble, and bring to life hybrid characters destined to inhabit a large anthropomorphic house.
The BIENVENUE collective, formed in 2021, includes Margot Darvogne, Louise-Margot Décombas, Richard Otparlic, and Lucas Tortolano. The four founding members share a common interest in domestic spaces and in the body as it navigates power dynamics, vulnerability, and multiplicity—through the lens of feminist and queer thought.
Ages 3 and up
Join your children as they explore the notions of space, mobility, and balance. Through play with simple shapes inspired by the architecture of the Centre Pompidou, they begin to grasp scale and proportion.
Designed by architect Leopold Banchini and designer Laure Jaffuel for Gallery 3-8 of the Museum—a fully modular space—this inhabitable inflatable structure can take the form of a home, a factory, or a temporary building… It inflates and deflates several times a day—a poetic gesture that questions the function and meaning of our built environment.
Based in Geneva, the studio Leopold Banchini Architects sees architecture as a means to foster diverse ways of living together. Rejecting buildings as symbols of power or wealth, the studio embraces simplicity and responsiveness to place, in search of a humble, sincere aesthetic rather than rigid functionalism.
Repurposed as scenographic elements, the pink, air-filled cubes created by artist Cyril Lancelin in 2022 explore the interplay between heaviness and lightness.
Born in 1975, Lyon-based artist Cyril Lancelin creates a hybrid body of work—including sculptures, immersive installations, drawings, virtual experiences, and videos—built around a visual vocabulary rooted in primitive geometry and parametric generation. Anticipating our immersion in a world of multiplied and shared data, his works establish a poetic dialogue between the physical and the fictional, shaped by an optimistic vision.
Ages 6 and up
Duration: 1 hour
A sketching journey through the Centre Pompidou’s architecture, capturing its every detail—from the Forum to the uppermost floors. Pipes, beams, bays, gerberettes… enough to fill an entire sketchbook!
Firste departure: 11:15 am
Last departure: 5:00 pm
Registration on site
Feeling a bit peckish? La Cantine du marché offers a selection of snacks and drinks, with a focus on healthy eating and organic ingredients.
Ages 0 to 2
Free access, subject to availability
Designed by the studio smarin, the BB bOunce Station is conceived as a vast territory of exploration for toddlers and their families. This installation offers a shared adventure around unusual furnishings: soft nests, welcoming blue waves, red stacking blocks, and unexpected mountains.
French designer Stéphanie Marin embraced eco-design from an early stage. Since 2002, she has expanded her work to include design and living spaces. Refusing any compromise between comfort, concept, and imagination, her practice is guided by the gestures that emerge through use. Her unconventional projects highlight the close relationship between art and design.