La Cité de l'Histoire: The Forbidden City Immersive Experience Tickets

Step inside The Forbidden City in a 45-minute self-paced immersive journey with 360° projections and six centuries of stories.

Getting started

Enter The Forbidden City - The Immersive Experience at La Cité de l'Histoire and have your ticket checked at the entrance. Once inside the air-conditioned indoor venue, you can move directly toward the immersive projection space. There is no fixed group schedule, so you set your own pace from the start of your cultural visit.

What to expect

The Forbidden City – The Immersive Experience at La Cité de l'Histoire

This experience introduces you to six centuries of the Forbidden City's history in a compact 45-minute self-paced cultural visit. Across the visit, you move between large-scale projections and a hands-on interactive space that explore the palace, the Ming and Qing dynasties, and links between Chinese and French history.

Features

• Feel surrounded by a 360° projection of Forbidden City spaces, with courtyards, pavilions, and gardens unfolding around you so you can observe the palace layout from every angle.
• Hear three narrators spanning five centuries, from a 16th-century missionary to a modern-day traveler, each offering a different perspective on life inside the imperial city.
• Spend time in an interactive space on the Ming and Qing dynasties and architecture, where you can explore how the palace was planned and built and what its structures symbolized.
• Follow a dual Chinese and French history timeline that runs side by side, helping you place key events in Beijing and France on a single line for quick comparison.
• Benefit from a 45-minute self-paced cultural visit that lets you pause where you want, revisit sections, or move ahead when you are ready.
• Experience the entire visit inside an air-conditioned indoor venue, ideal in any weather and comfortable during hot or rainy days.
• Enjoy entry to The Forbidden City - The Immersive Experience at La Cité de l'Histoire, including access to all projection, narration, and interactive zones dedicated to this show.