Designed by Daniel Buren, The installation Child’s Play explores shape and color, and how a museum might be more than a visual interaction. Transforming the space into a vibrant play area, the design is inspired by German pedagogue Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel.
Using over 100 modular wooden shapes—spheres, cubes, and cylinders in bold colors—the installation encourages children to explore and interact with its life-sized elements, blending art, play, and the cognitive power of connection.
Created by artist and architect Patrick Bouchain, the work reimagines the museum as a miniature city. Symmetrical arrangements of hypnotic circles, colorful arches, round towers, and triangular pediments invite visitors to immerse themselves in a dialogue between architecture and imagination.
This whimsical cityscape evolves as visitors journey through it, transitioning from vivid color to serene white, blurring the lines between the fantastical and the real.
Photography courtesy of Daniel Buren and DB-ADAGP Paris.
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