Across the Xmas holidays, the nocturnal visits of the Jardin des Plantes (known as En voie d’illumination in French) are all the time one thing actually particular. Now in its seventh yr, the occasion is including in some attention-grabbing new sights – lasers, animated LEDs, holograms, video projections, HD mapping onto the façade of the Pure Historical past Museum…
All of which fortunately goes with this yr’s theme of sunshine in nature: bioluminescence, fluorescence, the northern lights and extra…
Oh, and it’s not removed from our resorts!
This newest version En voie d’illumination as soon as once more offers you the prospect to discover the Jardin des Plantes at evening, with illuminations and animated scenes, and while earlier years have primarily been based mostly round large-scale Chinese language lanterns, this yr you’ll be able to anticipate one thing completely different, and quite spectacular.
Open each evening besides Mondays and Tuesdays from 6-10pm, and 7 nights every week in the course of the college holidays (Saturday twentieth December 2025 – Monday fifth January 2026 inclusive) you’ll be capable of admire a 6-metre excessive erupting volcano, the sunshine emitted by creatures deep beneath the ocean (the place 70% of the creatures use some type of bioluminescence), rocks that shine at midnight, the phenomenon of the northern lights, large light-emitting mushrooms and an precise 420kg meteorite that belings to the Pure Historical past Museum and has by no means been proven open air earlier than.
A 6-minute animated movie will probably be videomapped onto the museum’s façade, you’ll hear thunder, the hothouses will probably be illuminated from inside… All sounds fairly epic!
The presentation isn’t just some wild invention – a dozen scientists from the Pure Historical past Museum’s employees have helmed the venture, ensuring it’s factually right, and interactive stations alongside your stroll provides you with much more particulars.
Every part you’ll see really exists, nevertheless fantastical it could seem, and you’ll have enjoyable discovering this loopy ingredient of nature while maybe additionally studying one thing!
Gentle in Nature (En voie d’illumination : lumières de la nature) is within the Jardin des Plantes (right here) till 18th January 2026
Outdoors of faculty holidays, open from Wednesday-Sunday, 6-10pm (final entrance 9pm)
Throughout the college holidays (twentieth December 2025 – fifth January 2026), open seven nights every week from 6-10pm, together with the nights of twenty fifth & thirty first December 2025, and 1st January 2026
Closed twenty fourth December
Admission: 21€ (age 12 and up) / 13€ (on-line reserving compulsory – click on right here)
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