School groups
Tours aligned with your cultural or educational curriculum
The Fondation extends a particularly warm welcome to school groups, offering specific time slots outside of general opening times. The visitor guidance teams lead tours tailored specifically to children’s interest and comprehension levels and covering the themes of the Fondation architecture, Collection and exhibitions. The Fondation staff can coordinate with teachers in advance to make their visit a truly rewarding cultural and educational experience.
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SPECIAL RESERVED HOURS
For comfort and convenience, groups can take advantage of special morning time slots outside of general opening times.
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DEDICATED GUIDES
Each group can explore the Fondation’s art and architecture with the expert guidance of an experienced cultural interpreter.
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THEMED TOURS
Teachers are provided with theme suggestions that can help them highlight specific exhibition features or concepts that align with their curriculum.
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ADAPTED TO ALL LEVELS
Our visitor guidance teams are trained to adapt their presentations to the level of each student group.
School tours
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Kindergarten/middle school
The many lives of Cindy
Princess, cowboy, actress, traveller... Even all at the same time! Cindy wants to be many things and invents many lives for herself. She loves dressing up, landscapes, accessories and stories. Through a host of characters, families are introduced to Cindy and follow her on amazing adventures.
On mondays, wednesdays, thursdays and friday mornings. Duration: 1h
Price: €80 (30 people max)
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Kindergarten/middle school
Storytelling tour "Amazing building"
Children and parents follow the adventures of a small falcon flying over the Fondation looking for the amazing secrets of the building. Throughout this journey, discover with him the elements of nature that inhabit the places - wind, seeds, sun, water - that will allow you to unlock the mysteries of this enchanted architecture.
On Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Friday mornings. Duration: 1h
Price: €80 (30 people max)
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From middle school to secondary school
Apprentice Architect
As you explore the Fondation Louis Vuitton, enjoy family fun together, trying your hands at architecture with games and sketches, helped by qualified guides. Topics covered include balance, space, forces, tensions, colours and transparency, all to unlock the secrets of architect Frank Gehry.
On Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Friday mornings. Duration: 2h
Price: €80 (30 people max)
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Secondary school/High school/College
Architectural Visit
With a qualified guide, your group discover the different part of the building, its location and the history of its construction. Find out more about the artistic commissions especially created for the Fondation.
On Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Friday mornings. Duration: 1h30
Price: €80/140
Themed Tours
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Middle school, Secondary school, High School and University level
Photographic staging
Framing, poses, decoration and lighting all play a part in creating an image, and can help us to analyse it. Cindy Sherman prepares her photographs down to every last detail. Nothing is left to chance. Through the works of the American photographer as well as those of Samuel Fosso, Zanele Muholi and Andy Warhol, these tours examine photographic techniques and the importance of constructing the image.
Choose this tour if your program focuses on image analysis
Recommended for teachers of visual arts, applied arts, photography, cinema
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Middle school, Secondary school, High School and University level
Many faces: portraits and identity
This tour will cover the many different faces of the artist featured in her works. Focusing on the self-portrait, the tour examines self-representation and contemporary representation techniques.
Choose this tour if your programme focuses on portrait, identity and representation
Recommended for teachers of visual arts, applied arts, sociology and philosophy
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Middle school, Secondary school, High School and University level
Dressing up: the role of clothes and accessories
Through costumes and accessories, artists emphasise the staging of their photographs. Cindy Sherman undergoes metamorphoses to represent characters from every age group, social class and gender. In the exhibition Crossing Views, Samuel Fosso and Clément Cogitore also question the relationship with clothes.
Choose this tour if your programme focuses on social identities, mode and the meaning of clothing
Recommended for teachers of visual arts, mode, sociology
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High School and University
Beautiful, bizarre and kitsch
This tour will define and illustrate certain aesthetic concepts found in a range of work by Cindy Sherman. While stereotypes of beauty are explored through her representations of actresses and models, the Clowns, Broken Dolls and Sex Pictures series tackle strange and bizarre subjects.
Choose this tour if your programme focuses on image analysis
Recommended for teachers of visual arts or philosophy
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High School and University
Women clichés
From her very first series, Untitled Film Stills, Cindy Sherman depicts different roles, attitudes and stereotypes generally attributed to actresses, models and Madonnas, and subverts the genre with her hybrid characters. This tour presents Sherman’s many photos with female subjects, from her first prints to her recent tapestries.
Choose this tour if your programme focuses on feminism and women history
Recommended for history, sociology, and art history teachers
