Explore the most unexpected side of Louis de Funès' cinema: his taste for fantasy!

Exhibition opening Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 6:30 pm on the Louis de Funès Museum forecourt

Why not leave reality at the museum door?
Think you know Louis de Funès? Get ready to rediscover him in a totally new light! Behind his legendary expressions lay a passion for fantasy and science fiction. UFOs, crazy scientific experiments, masked criminals with futuristic gadgets...

The films of Louis de Funès are brimming with delirious universes, where the extraordinary becomes an inexhaustible source of comedy.

Three universes, one mission: to take you on a journey beyond reality!
Fantômas: The shadow of super-espionage
Human masks, futuristic gadgets and wild chases... Fantômas is James Bond in burlesque, with Commissaire Juve (de Funès) as tenacious as he is clumsy!

La Soupe aux choux and Le Gendarme et les extra-terrestres: a shower of UFOs
La Denrée arrives in a flying saucer, with oil-drinking robots... When science fiction meets terroir, the result is a firework display of tenderness and absurdity.

Hibernatus: ice and laughter
A grandfather frozen since 1905 reappears, and everything goes haywire! Between the clash of eras and the fear of progress, science fiction becomes a comic mirror of our society.

A funny, touching and inventive exhibition
For young and old dreamers, fans of science fiction, comedy or simply Louis de Funès. Come and enjoy an immersive experience, featuring rare archives, cult extracts, reconstructed sets and artificial intelligence!

A fantastic partnership! The Louis de Funès Museum is joining forces with the Lyon Museum of Cinema and Miniatures to take you on a journey through the extraordinary worlds of fantasy and science fiction cinema from the 70s and 80s, in France and abroad. Strange creatures, miniature sets, hand-crafted special effects: rediscover an era teeming with imagination, populated by mythical monsters, wacky robots and parallel worlds.

An intergalactic partnership! The Musée de la Gendarmerie et du Cinéma de Saint-Tropez (Gendarmerie and Cinema Museum, Saint-Tropez) has joined the exhibition with an exceptional loan: the arm of an extraterrestrial from Le Gendarme et les extra-terrestres. An unmissable nod to the delirious universe of Louis de Funès, between science fiction and cult comedy.

Mediation for young audiences: discovering the cosmos!
Guided by La Denrée, children will slip into the shoes of budding astronomers. Through playful workshops, they can reconstruct the solar system, observe the different phases of the Moon, listen to the sound of space and discover the objects that populate our Universe!


Practical information

Admission
> Full price €7
> Group rate €4 per person
> Free for under-18s, students and the unemployed

Opening hours
> Last admission: 45 minutes before museum closes
> Spring - Autumn, May 1 to June 30 and September 1 to 30:
Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Sundays 10:00 am - 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
> Summer, July 1 to August 31 :
Daily, 10:00 am to 7:00 pm (until 9:00 pm on Thursdays)
> Winter, October 1 to April 30 :
Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Sunday, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm