Treasure Hunt in the Louvre
Louvre Treasure Hunt
Carrying a printed colorful booklet, the children play an educational game in the Louvre.
They follow the steps of the archaeologists, solving mysteries in the Louvre by discovering the famous masterpieces and observing the details hidden in the best Art pieces exposed in the museum.
Their answers will be the clues to lead them to find more clues.
The last step is finding the Treasure : Many small gifts and souvenirs from Paris to remember positively their visit of the Louvre.
The accredited tour guide will help the family navigate the museum, answer the children questions about Art and History and will orient them to find more clues.
The parents can enjoy the remarkable stories behind each Masterpiece as you navigate comfortably the museum with their children.
Suited for all Children | Screen Free
This guided tour is best for families with children aged between 6 to 12.
No iPads / No Phones / No electronics
We believe that children learn better how to navigate a museum using an individual printed booklet, in the company of their expert tour guide, without exposing their fragile eyes to screens or any other electronic distraction. All the annexed images are printed. The children fill the answers directly on the booklets using markers and pens provided by the private tour guide.
Even though parents are welcome to participate in the game, the gifts we picked are suited to the children and adapted to each one's age. We can adapt our gifts and the questions on the booklet based on your wishes and your interests, by sending an email in advance to Flora.
The treasure hunt can be adapted for a family composed of teenagers 13 - 16 and kids 4 - 6 on request in advance.
You are welcome to send your questions to Flora by email.
About the Tour Guide License
The treasure hunt for kids in the Louvre is a complete guided tour service.
The kid-friendly guide is a professional state-licensed Guide-Conférencier. The state-license of the tour guide is a special professional card, a permit to guide in the Louvre, obtained after passing an oral and a written exam about Western Art History in front of an official jury in Paris, supervised by the Ministry of Culture to guarantee the accuracy of the information and the high quality of the tour for the visitors of France.
After years of studies at the Sorbonne university, with a training and a documented proof of at least 900 hours of work experience as a guide, the tour guide can ask to get his permit.
The card is a right to speak, a permit to guide a group in the Louvre, and for your family, this means that the guide can make you skip the line with your regular tickets.
* You can skip the waiting line at the entrance at any museum of Paris, including the Louvre, with a certified tour guide.
Our team
We are a human-sized team of experienced certified tour guides. We love working with kids because we are also parents, teachers, museum educators and we collaborated to design and to organize meaningful activities for the children visiting Paris.
We share the same passion for Art History and the same values to provide quality service to make everything easier for the parents on their trip to Paris.
We aim to help children learn in a fun pedagogical way. With us, children and parents will explore effortlessly many Art pieces in a big international Museum, depicting sumptuously a universal shared History from different epochs and civilizations.
The team is composed of independent tour guides, each one of us is also animating children and adolescents cultural workshops in France with the Ministry of Culture.
Some of us offer French classes, philosophy classes for teenagers, participate with artistic workshops, Renaissance history lessons and even Shoah memorial guided tours for the public schools of Paris.
Flora's booklet
Each child will have his own booklet and his own marker pen to fill the answers.
Flora designed the colorful booklet for children (best for 6 to 12) after a decade of experience guiding at the Louvre Museum, almost everyday.
The booklet is printed on 18 pages for the tour of 2 hours and 21 pages for the tour of 3 hours.
Each page has a small enigma, a question, a mystery to solve.
The guide will let you have some time and space to answer the question on your own, then she helps you get the right answer and more stories.
The small gifts for the children, gifted at the end of the tour, are picked by Flora.
Samples of Our colorful Booklets
Why should you offer the tour for your family
Discover the masterpieces
Discover the masterpieces
Discover the masterpieces
The treasure hunt service has the same itinerary as my Louvre Highlights guided tour.
The only difference is in the pace and stories, that are more adapted for families with young children:
We will take more time to answer the kids needs and questions, to explain the masterpieces.
We will be amazed by a selection of Art works that childre
The treasure hunt service has the same itinerary as my Louvre Highlights guided tour.
The only difference is in the pace and stories, that are more adapted for families with young children:
We will take more time to answer the kids needs and questions, to explain the masterpieces.
We will be amazed by a selection of Art works that children love: big paintings, enormous sculptures and a broad range of curious artifacts.
Meaningful Gift
Discover the masterpieces
Discover the masterpieces
A very special memorable moment for the kids to share with their Parents and a kid friendly tour guide.
Following the French National education program, inspired by the Art History courses of the Sorbonne, the family will learn about first notion of Art with an entertaining game.
From problem solving to connection making, Art benefits on kids minds are infinite.
Learning with Fun
Discover the masterpieces
Learning with Fun
The Young Detectives will enjoy a bunch of little gifts at the end to remember their trip in Paris and to relate to their experience in the Louvre.Parents are welcome to play too but the gifts and souvenirs are only for the children 😊
They learned how to appreciate Art, History and navigating a Museum.
The children can keep the booklet
The Young Detectives will enjoy a bunch of little gifts at the end to remember their trip in Paris and to relate to their experience in the Louvre.Parents are welcome to play too but the gifts and souvenirs are only for the children 😊
They learned how to appreciate Art, History and navigating a Museum.
The children can keep the booklet as a souvenir of their first exploration of a big world-class museum with the richest art collection.
About us
About Flora : Guide-Interpreter in the Louvre
I am Flora. I am 33. I am a state-licensed tour guide.
I am French, born and raised in Paris historical center.
I majored in Art and History from Sorbonne Paris 3.
I must confess that my mother was a tour guide for more than two decades so I grew up learning about Paris, culture, art, history and museums since a very young age.
As a daughter of a tour guide, a mother of two girls and a professional tour guide, my passion is to transmit my knowledge of my city to children and to offer a memorable moment for your family in Paris.
I couldn't think of a better way of living my life than organizing guided tours in Paris for my visitors. I started giving tours of Paris at a very young age for English speaking visitors.
I truly believe that, today, it is important to transmit this knowledge, through story telling and fun games, to teach pupils why Art is vital, how to appreciate Art and learn why History is amazing.
I am ready to help you by email or by phone.
Best regards,
Flora
About Emma : Teacher at the Sorbonne
I have worked as an educator and researcher at various cultural organisations and museums in France, Ireland and the UK - including the Louvre, Orleans House Gallery and the Arts Service of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, where I managed a dynamic team of educators and designed educational programs for a wide range of age groups and backgrounds.
I currently lectures in Museum Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Although work and studies have taken me away from Paris for brief stints, I am always drawn back to this city.
I hold qualifications in Art History from University College Dublin and La Sorbonne.
My masters research focused on how Egyptian themes were used as propaganda in the public art of Napoleonic Paris.
I have a deep passion for storytelling and so stories are central to the way I talk about history. One thing my research highlighted is that art, architecture and historical events don’t happen in a vacuum and it is only when you start looking at them in context that they really come to life.
Kind regards,
Emma