Palais de la decouverte
Avenue Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 75008 Paris, France Phone: +33 1 56 43 20 20 www.palais-decouverte.frAbout
The Palais de la Decouverte is a science museum located in the Grand Palais, in the 8th arrondissement on Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, Paris, France. It is open daily except Monday; an admission fee is charged. The museum was created in 1937 by Jean Baptiste Perrin (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1926) during an international exhibition on Arts and techniques in modern life. In 1938 the French government decided to convert the facility into a new museum, which now occupies 25,000 square metres within the west wing of the Grand Palais (Palais d'Antin) built for the Exposition Universelle (1900) to designs by architect Albert-Felix-Théophile Thomas. In January 2010 the museum was merged with the Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie. The new institution is named universcience.
