Palais de la découverte
Description
Who said science had to be serious? Certainly not the astronomers, mathematicians and physicists at the Palais de la Découverte, founded in 1937 and close to the Grand Palais, the Petit Palais and the Arc de Triomphe just a short walk away. They had but one credo: to encourage learning in a way that was fun and accessible to all.
Learning through Interaction
The Palais de la Découverte offers a variety of open-access areas for hands-on exploring as well as organised workshops for scientific experiments. Here, children and adults are allowed to touch, participate, and experiment – just like real scientists! In the Life Sciences section, for example, there are areas that explore different modes of communication between animals, as well as the magic of human biology.
Learn how to do coding in the digital and information technology area, or how to read terrestrial and meteorological phenomena in the geosciences room. Or why not try out being a chemist or a perfumer in the astonishing chemistry lab?
You can finally make your peace with maths, thanks to workshops on symmetry and fractal geometry, while the electromagnetic space in the physics rooms will make your hair stand on end, literally! And, if you think it’s impossible to watch the stars in the middle of the day, just take a turn around the planetarium, the oldest in France.
Temporary exhibitions offer the chance to gain a deeper understanding of specific scientific subjects within the museum’s domain.
Keep making learning fun with the exhibitions in Paris Region.
Community facilities
Access and contact
Metro Champs-Élysées, lines 1 and 13 Bus 28, 42, 52, 63, 72, 73, 80, 83, 93 RER C Invalides
Days and opening hours
Warning, this place is temporarily closed
Prices
- Adult: 9 € Teenager (24 years): 7 € (For less than 25 years old) Child: 7 € Student: 7 € Large family: 7 €.
Free entry for children < 6 years, teachers. Group rate available for > 20 people.
Tickets give acces to all showrooms and exhibits.
Happy Hours :€ 3 for studients from 15:00, from Tuedsay to Friday excluding public hoidays (all zones), with proof
Extra charge for planetarium : €3 Extra charge for some activities : €3.
Facility
- Restaurant
Activities
- Children's entertainment
Tour
Spoken languages
- English
- French
Guided tour languages
- French sign language
- English
- French
Documentation languages (home)
- English
- French
Bulletin board languages
- French sign language
- English
- French
Single mean time tour
120 minsSingle services tour
- Unguided individual tours available permanently
Accessibility
See on accessible.net- General
- Physical disability
- Deaf / Hard of Hearing
- Visual impairment
- Mental / Cognitive
- Family
- Senior
Access
Pratical informations
- access to the establishment: graspable outside call button
- floor-level pathways
- pathways that change levels are offset by a sloping surface
- reserved and adapted parking space located close to the entrance of the site
- parking spaces laid out and connected to the road or building by an accessible pathway
- reception desk easily identifiable and accessible
- free admission for one accompanying person
- free admission on presentation of proof of entitlement
- the accessible entrance is the main entrance
- the accessible entrance is the secondary entrance (indicated)
- staff informed or trained
- specific tariff policy
- revolving entrance door
- automatic entrance door
- manual entrance door
- accessible information plates
- all documentation graspable
- performance room with a reserved space
- accessible cloakroom
- multimedia content access system
- spaces equipped with reserved spaces and adapted to people in wheelchairs
- floor-level establishment
- wheelchair loan
- seated area available
- seated areas available (several spread out across the entire site)
- présence d’un lave main dans les sanitaires adaptés
- accessible communal toilets
- toilets: transfer direction onto the toilet seat to the right
- toilets: transfer direction onto the toilet seat to the left
- Communal staircase adapted for secure movement
- adapted elevator
- elevator
- acceo: instant speech transcription and visio-interpretation in French sign language (LSF)
- reception/information desk equipped with a hearing assistance system with a magnetic loop
- reservation/contact via SMS and/or email
- reservation possible by webcam
- staff trained in French sign language (LSF)
- uniform signage to help people find their way around
- text/image signage
- performance or tour assistance aids
- visual alarm with flashing light in isolated spaces
- intercom equipped with a hearing assistance system with a magnetic loop
- audiovisuals are in French sign language (LSF)
- subtitled audiovisuals
- independent visit possible
- guided tour in French sign language (LSF)
- guided tour in international sign language (ISL)
- guided tours with lip reading
- guided tours with an amplifying device
- guided tours with a magnetic loop device
- exterior pathways identifiable by touch
- exterior pathways visually identifiable
- exterior lighting control system in communal areas
- interior pathways identifiable by touch
- interior pathways visually identifiable
- Braille documentation
- documentation in enlarged characters
- swell paper documentation
- floor-level establishment
- offset or no obstacles at face height
- navigation assistance tool (e.g. map/model - in relief/large characters/contrasting colours)
- possibility to control the lighting
- magnifying glass loan
- glass surfaces identifiable via contrasted elements in relation to the immediate surroundings
- audiodescription system
- elevator with audio announcements for each floor
- elevator with identifiable call buttons
- Legible information plates
- specific accessible information plates
- tactile tour
- the dangers identified have been addressed
- brochures/documentations classified by topic
- simplified adapted documentation (illustration through images, photos, drawings)
- adapted signage
- adapted activities
- educational workshops
- adapted room cards
- specific tours
- floor-level pathways
- adapted opening hours (morning performances)
- children's programme
- childcare service
- family tariffs/free admission for children
- secure and closed establishment
- large lockers or left luggage lockers for pushchairs
- possibility to leave pushchairs at the cloakroom
- floor-level establishment
- baby carrier loan
- pushchair loan
- toilet facilities suitable for children (toilet seat and washbasin height)
- changing table
- children's visit booklets/games
- pushchairs accepted for the tour
- floor-level pathways
- Pathways that change levels are offset by a sloping surface
- pets accepted on site and during guided tours
- reception desk easily identifiable and accessible
- reception/information desk equipped with a sound amplification system
- free admission for persons aged over 60
- Offer adapted to seniors
- cloakroom
- documentation in enlarged characters
- floor-level establishment
- wheelchair loan
- magnifying glass loan
- cane wheelchair loan
- seated areas available (several spread out across the entire site)
- horizontal support rail
- diagonal support rail to enable the seated person to raise themselves up easily
- communal staircase adapted for secure movement
- stairs compensated for by a lift or an elevator
- Legible information plates
- Specific accessible information plates (large characters)
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- ElsaLaurent-2021