Discovery Palace
The Palais de la Découverte—“Discovery Palace”—is a science museum created in 1937 in the shadow of the Grand Palais, and it was built around a bold idea: public access to modern science. It was established by Jean Baptiste Perrin, a Nobel Prize in Physics winner (1926), during an international exhibition on “Arts and techniques in modern life.” In 1938, the French government decided to convert the facility into a permanent museum, giving it 25,000 square metres in the west wing of the Grand Palais, in the building designed for the Exposition Universelle of 1900 by Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas. After administrative shifts—an April 28, 1972 decree (no. 72-367) made it an autonomous public establishment, and a January 25, 1990 decree (no. 90-99) granted it the status of a large establishment—the museum took on a new structure in January 2010, merging with the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie under universcience. …
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