Step back in time, enter the world of the Ancien Régime and celebrate 18th-century French arts and entertainment. Learn traditional dances and songs, get your hair and make-up done in an 18th-century style with a 21st-century twist, try your hand at popular games of chance and even meet Marie Antoinette! Families can make puppets inspired by the commedia dell'arte and go on a digital treasure hunt, while adults can attend talks on 18th-century theatre, painting and decorative arts.
No booking required. Suggested donation £2 per person
Interactive Performance
12pm, 1.15pm & 2.45pm
A band of travellig players has come to the Wallace Collection looking for recruits so come ad join in the mayhem and madness of a rehersal and learn some music, dance and commedia along the way. With Baroque n’ Roll
Great Gallery (First Floor)
Card Games
11am – 4pm
Come and meet 18th century nobility and
chance your luck in a game of cards!
Landing (First Floor)
Make a Commedia dell’ Arte Puppet
11am-4pm
The Commedia dell’ Arte was a popular
form of theatre in 18th-century France, learn
more about it before making your own
harlequin puppet!
Education Studio (Lower Ground Floor)
Pop-Up Fashion & Photography Studio
11.30am – 2.30pm
Join We Are Photogirls to get your hair and make-up done in an 18th-century style with a
21st-century twist before getting your picture taken in our pop-up studio. Photographs will
be available to view online after the event.
Meeting Room (Lower Ground Floor)
Meet Marie-Antoinette
1pm, 2.30pm & 4pm
Be welcomed to the Wallace Collection by
Marie-Antoinette. Discover more about her
life as the Queen of France ad her love of fine things!
The Study (First Floor)
QR Code Treasure Hunt
11.00am – 4.30pm
Use your smartphone to hunt down QR codes hidden throughout the museum. Scan them and answer their questions to win a prize! We can show you how to download a QR code scanner to your phone if you don’t already have one, and a paper trail will be available for those without smartphones.
Porphyry Court (Lower Ground Floor)
Gallery Talks & Lectures
Chinoiserie
11.15am – 11.45am
Carmen Holdsworth-Delgado, Assistant
Curator, Small Drawing Room (First Floor)
Jean-Baptiste Oudry's Still Lifes
12pm - 12.30pm
Christoph Vogtherr, Director
Back State Room (Ground Floor)
Image & Reality: Courtly Splendour & grinding poverty in 18th century France 12.45pm-1.15pm
Keith Dowen, West Gallery I (First Floor)
The Age of Letter Writing
1.30pm – 2.00pm
Christylle Phillips, Boudoir (First Floor)
Mademoiselle de Camargo
2.00pm – 3.15pm
Marie-Claude Elliott with a short performance by professional violinist Alla Sharova, Lecture Theatre (Lower Ground Floor)
Greeting the Day: The Augsburg Toilette Service
3.30pm – 4.00pm
Jill Bace, West Room (First Floor)