Bassins des Lumières in Bordeaux is presenting 'Le Petit Prince, l’odyssée immersive' through June 27, 2026, with the show launched on April 4 to mark the 80th anniversary of the publication of Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s book. The venue describes the project as a visual and sonic journey through the celebrated tale, combining watercolour imagery, immersive projection and interactive installations.
The exhibition is framed by Bassins des Lumières as a return engagement for a programme that has already drawn more than 200,000 visitors. In the museum’s own announcement, the presentation is positioned as a chance to rediscover a work that has become familiar to generations of readers while being translated into an experiential format designed for the site’s immersive environment. The institution says the experience can be revisited “à l’occasion de dates exceptionnelles,” beginning on April 4, 2026.
Bassins des Lumières, located on Impasse Brown de Colstoun in Bordeaux, is part of Culturespaces’ network of immersive art venues. Its current programming places 'Le Petit Prince' alongside other large-scale sensory exhibitions, including 'Matisse, La symphonie des couleurs' and the forthcoming 'Océan, immersion dans le monde sous-marin'. The venue’s materials present these projects as part of a broader identity built around immersive encounters with art, music and projected images.
For 'Le Petit Prince', the source material emphasizes the narrative arc of the book rather than a conventional display of objects. Visitors are said to be carried from a sandstorm and a mysterious desert into the imagined world of the story, where Saint Exupéry’s watercolours are brought to life in colour. The installation also references the asteroid B612, the snake, the fox and the rose, drawing on the book’s best-known characters and symbols.
The venue’s website and newsletter both highlight the scale of public response to the project, noting that it has already attracted nearly or more than 200,000 visitors. No additional exhibition partners, lending institutions or outside lenders are named in the source material provided. The exhibition credits list a co-production between Culturespaces Studio and Pomase, with artistic direction by Nicolas Charlin, conception and animation by Spectre Lab, and musical supervision and mixing by Start-Rec.
Bassins des Lumières presents the programme as a family-friendly experience, but also one that can be enjoyed alone or with friends. The site’s page for the exhibition says the journey concludes in a swirl of “poussières d’étoiles,” and it links the presentation to related visitor services such as the on-site restaurant spaces, the bookshop-boutique and mediation material exploring the narrative, the characters and Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s story. The exhibition remains on view in Bordeaux until June 27, 2026.
