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Museum
District : Champs-Elysées / Louvre
Member of the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau
Description :
All year round.
Are your kids fascinated by science and discoveries in the fields of astronomy, chemistry and biology? In order to provide answers to those endless questions on such vast subjects, why not take them along for a fun trip to the Palais de la Découverte?...
In Paris’s 8th arrondissement in the west wing of the Grand Palais, this establishment is both a scientific centre and a museum, aimed at all those - children and grown-ups alike – who are interested in science and its applications. Six themes are presented in an entertaining and educational way: astronomy/astrophysics, chemistry, geosciences, physics, mathematics and earth sciences. You will find permanent and visiting exhibitions, guided tours, workshops and conferences with on-the-spot experiments and where you can ask questions of the scientists. Don’t miss the many interactive activities: the new Zeiss Planetarium and its dome 15 metres in diameter, the electrostatics presentation and the 3D film “Journey inside a cell”. Plenty to quench your progeny’s thirst for knowledge!
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photo D.R.
Informations :
Public establishment - Ministère de l'Education Nationale
The Palais de la Découverte presents fundamental and contemporary science in a dynamic and interactive way.
Astronomy with the new planetarium, biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics and earth sciences. Electrostatics room, Sun room.
Reopening of the Acoustics room: offers a series of experiments and demonstrations in which to investigate the phenomenon of sound: making and speed of sound, structure of simple and complex sounds (organ pipes), harmonic analysis and synthesis, interference and diffraction, Doppler effect, beats, resonance ...
School of ADN: for education and culture devoted to genetics and ADN.
Others informations
Architecturals styles :
Monumental
List of collections :
Sciences, Geology, Astronomy, Chemistry
Collections period :
19th century
Opening days and times
Open/Closed :
From Tuesday to Saturday 9.30am to 6pm.
Sunday and certain public holidays: 10am to 7pm.
Cash desk closes at :
30 min before closing
Days of week :
Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Open on those public holidays :
Easter | 8 May | Ascension Day | Whitsuntide | 1 November | 11 November
Individual tours
Independant tour :
€6.50
€4: 5/18 yrs, students, large families, the unemployed and seniors over 65 yrs.
Planetarium extra fee: €3.50
Free :
Journalists, teachers as part of preparation for a school visit with a booking or on appointment, "Amis" of the Palais de la Découverte, guests of employees, children under 5 yrs, disabled people, adults accompanying a school visit (1 for 10 students over 5 yrs and 1 for 5 children under 5 yrs, 1 for each disabled person), members of CNAM, CSI, the Muséum, the Musée du Quai Branly, ICOM card holders.
Free for children :
under 5 yrs.
Group tours
Group of adults with museum guide :
Booking necessary.
School groups with museum guide :
Booking necessary.
Services
Educational activities :
Contact the Palais de la Découverte for more information.
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Access:
Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt
75008 PARIS
District : Champs-Elysées / Louvre
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Champs Elysées Clemenceau
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RER : Invalides
- Bus : 28, 42, 52, 63, 72, 73, 80, 83, 93
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