Palais de la Découverte
The Palais de la Découverte (German Palace of Discoveries ) is a science museum in Paris (in the west wing of the Grand Palais , 8th Arrondissement , Avenue Franklin-Delano-Roosevelt). It was founded on the occasion of the international exhibition Exposition Internationale Arts et Techniques dans la Vie moderne 1937 by the physicist and Nobel Prize winner Jean Perrin (who had the idea for it in 1934) and the biologist and writer Jean Rostand .
Compared to other large science museums in Europe such as the Deutsches Museum in Munich and the Science Museum in London , it focuses on the natural sciences (physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, earth sciences, astronomy and astrophysics). The history of technology is traditionally represented in Paris by the Musée des arts et métiers , which had its origins in 1794. There is also the science museum Cité des sciences et de l'industrie in Paris, which opened in 1986 and with which the Palais de la Découverte has been united in the EPIC Universcience since 2009 .
The museum has 25,000 square meters of exhibition space and around 600,000 visitors annually. In addition to the permanent exhibition, where the museum has been a pioneer in interactive presentation in France since the 1970s, there are also many traveling exhibitions and the museum also hosts colloquiums and conferences. It has a planetarium and a large Van de Graaff generator .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '58.4 " N , 2 ° 18' 39.1" E