Les Bassins des Lumières Ticket

Why Visit the Bassins des Lumiéres?

Make your way to Les Bassins des Lumières to enter this unique, interactive art gallery located in Bordeaux's former submarine base. Opened in the summer of 1999, Les Bassins des Lumières is home to huge immersive digital exhibitions dedicated to the great artists of art history, contemporary creations and major current themes including the conquest of space of comic strips. Les Bassins is also the largest digital art centre in the world. What more could you ask for?

Within Les Bassins itself, you'll find 4 massive basins, with a continuous cycle of digital and immersive exhibitions:

• The Immersive Citerne: a 155 metre-squared (1,668 square feet) space with 7-metre (23-foot) high ceilings, that allows you to lie down or sit down and get a different perspective.
• The Cube: a 220 metre-squared (2,368 square feet), 8-metre (26-foot) high space dedicated to contemporary artists working in the field of immersive art, there's also a parallel exhibition of works by established and emerging digital artists.
• Large Mooring Buoys: various images from temporary exhibitions are projected onto the water.
• The Base Museum: explore the history of the old submarine base and discover its fascinating past.

While you can spend as much or as little time at Les Bassins as you'd like, it usually takes around an hour to take in the exhibitions.

Temporary Exhibitions

Currently, you can visit the following exhibition at Les Bassins des Lumières:

L'Égypte des Pharaons: de Khéops à Ramsès II

This immersive digital exhibition is dedicated to the fascinating civilization of Ancient Egypt. Discover the secrets of Lower and Upper Egypt at the time of the pharaohs. What's, this exhibition will allow you to travel without leaving Paris to the temples of Luxor and Abu Simbel, the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings and the tomb of Nefertiti in the Valley of the Queens.

Les Orientalistes: Ingres, Delacroix, Gérôme...

An equally immersive exhibition, this collection takes you through the breathtaking 19th century works of DelaCroix, Ingres, and Gérôme. Drawing inspiration from travels and accounts of distant lands such as Morocco, Algeria, and Egypt, the collection offers a captivating interpretation of the region as imagined over a century ago.

Special Times

Please note the following special times:

• May 17: closes at 7 pm instead of 8 pm
• June 10: open at 11 am instead of 10 am