Image: Musée Fabre, Montpellier
Musée Fabre in Montpellier is offering a summer family visit called 'La forme qui se transforme', built around the museum’s presentation of 'Le design selon Pierre Paulin'. The programme is aimed at children aged two to five accompanied by adults, and it uses a sensory, playful itinerary to introduce Pierre Paulin’s design through the idea of a form that changes into an everyday object.
According to the museum’s event page, the activity runs on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 10:30 during the summer holidays. The linked listing gives the dates from 4 July through 29 August 2026, with each session scheduled from 10:30 to 11:45. The cost is 7 euros per participant, with a maximum of two adults per family; any additional adult must buy a ticket for access to the permanent collections.
The family visit is one part of a larger summer programme centred on Paulin’s work. In its newsletter, Musée Fabre describes the exhibition 'Le design selon Pierre Paulin' as a setting for a number of related activities, including guided visits and hands-on workshops. The museum’s newsletter highlights Paulin’s interest in soft, modular and evolving forms, and presents the exhibition as an opportunity to explore how he thought about furniture as part of a broader environment stretching from floor to wall and, in some cases, to the ceiling.
The event page does not elaborate beyond the basic concept of the visit, but the museum’s newsletter gives a clearer picture of the interpretive angle. 'La forme qui se transforme' is framed as a simple route for very young visitors and their families to connect design with everyday life. The emphasis is on seeing how an idea becomes an object, rather than on technical design history or a full survey of Paulin’s career.
Pierre Paulin is also central to other summer activities listed by the museum. These include the guided tour 'Le design selon Pierre Paulin - la visite guidée', held on Tuesdays and Saturdays, except 15 August, at 15:30, and on Sundays at 11:15, as well as workshops titled 'Lumineuse rectiligne' and 'L'Équilibre des formes'. Musée Fabre’s newsletter presents these sessions as complementary ways to engage with the same exhibition.
The museum’s July-August 2026 newsletter places the family visit within a broader programme that also includes other collection and display updates, but 'La forme qui se transforme' is specifically described as a family visit for preschool-aged children. The accompanying credit identifies the image used for the listing as Pierre Paulin’s 'Fauteuil Déclive en extérieur', 1966, from the Archives Paulin.
