The golden building
A golden twist on the river suggesting a swirling glass — Bordeaux's new icon.
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Clearly yes — by design: the exhibition is about civilisation, trade and science rather than drinking, the interactivity entertains everyone, and the tasting is optional with a juice swap. Many non-drinking families visit it as an excellent science museum.
Two comfortable hours for the exhibition, three with dome and surroundings. Tram B runs straight from the centre in fifteen minutes, and the Bacalan food halls opposite make the perfect lunch after.
Yes, usually free to a certain age, with a simplified family route. Screens and scent games hold them an easy hour — beyond that depends on their ages.
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The Cité du Vin is Bordeaux's great modern museum of wine as civilisation: a twisting golden building on the Garonne bank, designed to suggest liquid moving in a glass, opened in 2016 and instantly the city's new architectural icon. The permanent exhibition is an interactive journey through twenty themes: six thousand years of cultivation, the world's regions from Georgia to Chile, and the trade that built Bordeaux itself — via giant screens, scent stations and sensory games, with an audio guide in many languages, Arabic included. The visit works perfectly for non-drinkers: the subject is historical and cultural, the technology dazzling, and the closing tasting in the panoramic dome swaps happily for grape juice — with the eighth-floor view of city and river for everyone.
A golden twist on the river suggesting a swirling glass — Bordeaux's new icon.
History, geography and trade in dazzling interactive staging.
The eighth floor's circular view of city and river.
134 Quai de Bacalan, 33300 Bordeaux