Museum Connections 2026

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UNIVERSCIENCE - CITÉ DES SCIENCES ET DE L'INDUSTRIE

Stand: E65

Country

France

Activity / Nomenclature

ML - Cultural programming, Exhibition design
MT - Exhibition, Scenography, Signage

About us

As France’s leading public institution for science and technology culture, Universcience unites the Cité des sciences and the Palais de la découverte to make science accessible to everyone. Through interactive and innovative exhibitions, cultural engineering, digital creation, and international partnerships, its multidisciplinary teams design, produce, and tour unique projects that inspire curiosity, critical thinking, and hands-on experimentation.

Events  Find us at the following sessions and events:

All events
Open Museum
Jan 15, 2026
10:00 AM12:00 PM

🧒Visit of the new CITÉ DES ENFANTS (Children area)

After a year of renovation, the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie is unveiling its new Cité des enfants, a fully redesigned space dedicated to children aged 5 to 10. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience and enriched by feedback from millions of visitors, this transformation introduces a bold, sensory, and inclusive museography designed to meet the needs of today’s children. This visit will give you the opportunity to discover a true playground for exploration, joyful and colourful, where each interactive station encourages cooperation, discovery, and the development of psychosocial skills. Designed with the support of a broad scientific committee, the new Cité des enfants brings the world down to a child’s level and profoundly renews the standards of museum experiences for young audiences. The visit will be hosted by Mrs Alison BOIFFARD, Exhibition Curator, who will share insights into the behind-the-scenes of this ambitious project, its scenographic choices, and its societal objectives. This is a unique opportunity to discuss the innovative approaches implemented to combine enjoyment, learning, and inclusion. The visit will offer an inspiring immersion into an emblematic space, fully reinvented to support children in their discovery of the world. The visit will be bilingual (French / English). It is open to all curious visitors but is primarily intended for professionals working in mediation for young audiences. If your profile does not match this target group, your registration may be cancelled to ensure the coherence of the group.
Open Museum
Open Museum
Jan 15, 2026
10:00 AM1:30 PM

🧪 Visits to the Touring Exhibitions of the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie

Embark on an immersive morning exploring three temporary and touring exhibitions from the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, each offering a fresh perspective on living beings, movement, and our contemporary practices. 10:00 – Dogs and Cats celebrates our longtime companions. Present in nearly 23 million French households, they reveal their behaviors, perceptions, and abilities, as well as the unique bonds they share with us. A playful and scientific exhibition exploring the world of pups and cats, nose first. 11:00 – Gardening invites visitors to rethink an ancestral practice in the context of major environmental, social, and health challenges. What does “gardening” mean in the 21st century? Through an active and sensory stroll, visitors discover the hidden sciences behind gardening and reconsider their relationship with the earth. 12:00 – Dancing encourages children and adults to experience a collective, joyful, and spontaneous activity. As a true language of the body, dance becomes a means of expression, social connection, and spatial exploration through immersive and participatory installations. 12:30 – Networking lunch The visit will be hosted by Mrs Hélène Wang, Head of the Touring Exhibitions Development and Promotion Unit at Universcience, who will share behind-the-scenes insights and museographic choices for these exhibitions. The visit will be bilingual (French / English). It is open to all curious visitors but is primarily intended for exhibition producers, cultural venue operators, and local authorities. It is also open to participants of the Touring Exhibitions Pavilion. If your profile does not match this target group, registration may be cancelled to ensure the coherence of the group.
Touring ExhibitionsOpen Museum
Open Museum
Jan 15, 2026
10:00 AM12:00 PM

🫧 Visit of the “TRANSPARENCY” exhibition – Palais des Enfants

Under the Rotunda of the Palais de la découverte, the Palais des enfants is opening a new 620 m² space dedicated to children aged 2 to 10 and their accompanying adults. Its first exhibition, Transparence, offers an immersive journey where art, science, interactive installations, and audiovisual creations come together to explore, in a poetic and sensory way, this fascinating property of matter. Guided by a mischievous soap bubble, children freely discover five environments: a hall of mirrors, a mysterious forest, a mineral cave, a luminous sky, and a shimmering ocean. Each space creates a dialogue between artworks and hands-on activities, engages the body and senses, and provides accessible keys to understanding, all within a luminous and narrative scenography. Designed to foster curiosity and shared experiences, Transparence creates moments of learning as much as wonder. The experience strengthens the child–adult relationship by encouraging cooperation, autonomy, and discovery together. You will be welcomed by Mrs Floriane PEROT, Exhibition Curator, who will guide you through this new iconic space. You will also have the opportunity to exchange with the teams about the artistic and museographic choices that bring this innovative exhibition to life. An inspiring immersion into a place where art and science meet on a child’s level. The visit will be bilingual (French / English). It is open to all curious visitors but is primarily intended for professionals working in mediation for young audiences. If your profile does not match this target group, your registration may be cancelled to ensure the coherence of the group.
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