The technology museum located near the former slaughterhouses of La Villette will offer, particularly from the start of the school year in September, an exhibition dedicated to the history of the discovery of the famous Ardèche Paleolithic site.
Explore the Chauvet cave in the shoes of a scientist, experience silence, move with your family in an exhibition on dance… This is the program for the new season of the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie in Paris .
From October until May 2025, the exhibition Chauvet Cave, the scientific adventure will offer an immersion, alongside researchers, in the decorated Paleolithic cave, announced Tuesday Bruno Maquart, president of Universcience, the public establishment which brings together the Palais de la Découverte and the Cité des Sciences. The visitor will be able to see “research in progress” in the Pont d’Arc site in Ardèche, which has remained intact for 21,500 years and discovered 30 years ago. With the questions that scientists ask about the cave paintings and their working conditions to preserve this place that we only visit in the form of a replica.
Silence and childhood
The other major exhibition of the season will plunge, from December, into the world of silence, to bring to life this phenomenon which has become rare in a journey without text or object, but with a simple helmet. From July 2, young audiences are invited to a tour of the world of dance, traveling in a few gestures “danced”.
The City of Babies, tested since 2019, will open in the fall a new permanent space reserved for toddlers aged 0 to 23 months, Bruno Maquart said in his press conference. The Cité des enfants, which has welcomed more than 20 million visitors since its opening in 1992, is closing its doors for a year to renovate the offer aimed at 5-10 year olds. The area for the little ones (2 to 6 years old) will remain open before beginning its transformation one year later.
As for the Palais de la Découverte, closed for work since 2020, it will reopen in stages from June 6, 2025 with an exhibition on artificial intelligence. The entire site of the west wing of the Grand Palais, at the foot of the Champs-Élysées, will open at the end of 2026.
