Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie

We loved it! The part about space is really interesting. You'll find audio guides in FR, EN, and DE at most of the points. They have a space flight take-off simulation which is not always available (if I understood well) that I tried twice with my younger child. She was impressed with the table simulation where you take care of the space station on Mars. The older kid loved the robotics and the math parts. We stayed for 3 hours and we would stay more if they weren't closing.

A mix of exciting new and forgotten old The new exhibits are great — modern, engaging, and well thought out. But many of the older ones feel like they were abandoned around 2005: broken elements, non-functional features, and a noticeable lack of staff around to help or explain. That said, the museum is clean, and the staff (when you do come across someone) are friendly and welcoming. With a bit of maintenance and presence, the older sections could shine again.

Worth a trip and well off the tourist trail. Best is being able to walk around inside a 1950s vintage diesel submarine: the Argonaut. Lots of interesting and educational exhibits that switch around every couple of years. You can spend the day and not see everything. Overall has a bit of a 1970s vibe going for it. Planetarium is worth a go (all shows in French with no subtitles). The giant mirrored ball thing in all the photos is an IMAX cinema and is not part of the museum. In the mathematics section they have this interesting round room you can go in and then they start it spinning (not too fast) so you can see what it's like to be in a rotating reference frame. Think of a carousel where they've cleared out all the horses and you get to walk around on the rotating platform. They had a section on dogs and cats (without having any actual dogs and cats) that was entertaining and we did learn things like "cats don't like it when you rearrange the furniture". Recommended if your trip to Paris is not so frantic or if it's not your first time in Paris.

I have been there for the RISC-V summit 2025. The venue is good and it organizes in the underground floor of the museum. The museum itself is quite interesting since it shows the industrialization of the robots and something scientific.

Wonderful experience. Took my 3 year old there and she had a blast! We were able to store our items and coats ahead of entering, plenty of secured storage space. I highly recommend buying tickets in advance.

Fun experience for the whole family. I went with my 9 years old, we did the planetarium, metamorphose and Argonaute submarine. We absolutely loved it. It took 4 to 5 hours for the whole visit. They are restaurants on site but we took a sandwich and ate at the picnic area.

This is a really fun place for kids and I'm very glad we decided to make a trip here during our visit to Paris for my daughter's recital. There's lots of interactive and ingenious exhibits to play with that really illustrate a broad range of scientific concepts. The live butterfly room was a hit with the kids, and pretty much everything was. You definitely need a bit of stamina to walk around and stand while your kids have a blast, but it's worth it for the munchkins.

My son enjoyed the kids area but the snack bar and especially the coffee (from the vending machine or the bar) was quite terrible. Also, we were a bit annoyed that we couldn’t enter any other exhibits with the quite expensive ticket.

While the museum was cool, I was truly disappointed. I thought it was going to be more of a children's museum where the kids could interact with stuff...but everything was glued down. And what made it worse, everything was in French. It would have been nice if they had English notes explaining everything. I kept reading how great this place was and was very excited to come, but my 6 year old was bored the whole time. Very boring and waste of time.

We try to check out the science museums in each city we visit (if it doesn't seem to kiddy-ish) because my husband is a big kid at heart. We arrived on a Wednesday a little before 1:30. This is when all the school kids were arriving. Luckily, we didn't really run into them because they weren't really at the exhibits. I guess they may have separate activity rooms for school trips. This science museum was pretty fun. I learned a few things and there were a good amount of interactive exhibits, including one social experiment, which I won't spoil for you. We spent about two hours there and pretty much explored the whole museum. Tip - the museum is a part of the Museum Pass. It's not quite in the city centre but only takes a quick 20-30 minute metro ride.

Wow this is the best science museum that I've ever been too. By far (especially compared to my local place... Liberty Science center in NJ). Most science centers are essentially glorified playgrounds/ learning centers for kids. This place actually was more targeted towards adults and teens. In fact during the weekday that we visited, it was almost exclusively adults. The exhibits are extremely interesting and informative and I learned a lot. I could've spent at least an entire day here (in contrast to the art museums like the Louvre where I was bored out of my mind). The different sections are in good working order. Many exhibits are in both English and French (although there are some that are French only). There was a really cool interactive sports exhibit too when we visited too. We got the explorer ticket that gets you access to the Planetarium as well as the special exhibits in addition to regular admission. I'd say that this is worth it as the Planetarium was awesome. Huge screen, comfortable seats, very interesting documentaries. Free WiFi. Very close to metro station. Will return on my next trip to Paris.

This is probably a better place for small children who can interact with science. They have a planetarium, a few airplanes.

This is one of the most tactile museums I've ever been to. It's enormous, with several sections devoted to different branches of science: biology, botany, mathmatics, physics, etc. But the content is not etherally abrstract; it's what is applicable to the ordinary person - the car you drive in, the food you eat, the innovative design of your home stereo system, etc. And as much as possible, the exhibits engage your sense of touch and hearing as well as sight. In addition to the numerous exhibits, there is a steady stream of seminars (various topics) held throughout the day in different locations. Anyone can join the audience. The exhibits are quite accessible to tourists as well as the French, with most descriptions, explanations, and museum signs in English as well as Spanish. I was also impressed by consistent use of Braille signs and even some visual exhibits translated into a bas-relief pannel. There is also a planetarium with five or so shows. The planetarium itself is quite comfortable and the projection was good, though I found the presentation about the solar system a little disappointing - lacking in interesting content. There is, however, the Geode movie theatre for more modern scientific films. There is also a submarine on the site, the Argonaute, open for touring. This is located in the lovely gardens behind the centre. On the lower floor, you'll find a small but nice aquarium next to one of the restaurants. The Cité houses a large library stocked with science books, DVD/CDs and magazines/journals of all kinds. There are confortable tables and chairs for study, (and these are used quite regularly by local students and professionals). There's a kid's section to the library (as well as one in the museum proper). The ticket price for one day is somewhat pricey, but for only four Euros more, you can have access for one full year. It's a good deal (for a local) as you can't do justice to all the exhibits in one day. The library is free, but you need to pay a reasonable annual fee borrow items. The Geode movies are extra, about 10 Euros a ticket. The only reason I wouldn't give the Cité five stars is that, as big and impressive as it is, it's showing signs of wear and lack of maintenance. In one section I visited, about a third of the interactive displays were not working. In another section, several video screens were blank. There are tons of security guards on site, but maybe not enough curators?...hmmm.

liked it a lot. I will add that they are strict about starting and ending times, and security is tight. I would say it is bigger than COSI in Columbus, Ohio. very interactive learning with my 4 year old. she had a blast.

Lame. We are ppl that crawl science museums. Most of the displays are on a screen. I could just do that at home with my iPad.... The remaining interactive display of seeing inertia in the math section, refused entry for us because we did not speak french. They should have stated that before we purchase our ticket Also, the kids or enfant area is closed at 3:15 while the rest of the museum closes at six. No where in the museum displays that info. Nor were we told. This is very lame. Perhaps we just came back from the German museum in Munich and the cosmo caixa in Barcelona, and being a regular attender is all science museums in most of western United States. Save your time. Go do something else with your kids. Taking a course on coursera is better than this

The munchkins and I took a day for yourselves and decided to visit the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie during our recent trip to Paris. I've been to a lot of science museums over the years including Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, and San Francisco and I have to say that this is one of the best science museums I've ever visited. For the tourists, the vast majority of exhibits had copy in English so we were able to enjoy the museum despite not being fluent in French. The museum itself was very reasonably priced. We went ahead and got tickets to two of the extra exhibits which were actually more than the normal price of admission. The exhibits were engaging for the munchkins and interesting for myself (an engineer). One thing that I really noticed (and enjoyed) was that so many of the exhibits weren't just about science, but had an artistic angle. The robotics traveling exhibit was more about the art and aesthetics of robots than the actual technology. They also had the standard fare of Earth sciences, astronomy, sound, light, etc. All done in a very interesting and hand-on manner to engage the munchkins. This was an enjoyable and unique way to spend of our days in Paris. I would suggest that for a family traveling to Paris with kids it would be a fantastic diversion at the 1/2 way point of a vacation. As a final aside, the second traveling exhibit was about the history of video games, which made me feel nostalgic and old.

This is a nice museum to take kids - the -1 floor (one floor down from the ground floor) has a nice but incredibly busy section designed to engage kids in testing all sorts of scientific experiments. It costs 11 euros per person (les for kids I think), so go for a full day. And eat well before - there is a McDonald's across from the front entrance and the food there is much more reasonably priced than anything in the museum. I liked the adult exhibits (we dropped our friends with children off on the ground floor and then had a quiet look around upstairs). The exhibit on the future of fashion was great and there was a section on existing but futuristic products that we liked a lot (though it is a bit like a high-priced shopping exhibit). Our favourite bit was the future of urban society where they showed the different living standards of modern cities and how architects and construction experts are planning to build more eco-friendly homes. Next time I'd like to see one of their 3D surround-sound films in the Epcot-centre-like theater in the back.

Just wanted to do something for my 10 and 12 year old. This was great. We spent 5 hours wondering around the museum. The submarine outside had 1 hour wait kids gave up after 20 minutes. Planetarium movie was great, the seats are so nice I almost fell asleep sitting in them. You can get a translating device. Make sure you have an ID they will keep until you return them back. The translating devices out of three they gave us only one worked which I gave to the kids to share during the movie. This was kind of disappointing. My 10 year old did not let go of the device so my 12 year old was unable to hear the complete movie. I did tell them their devices did not work, the lady at the counter was not so concerned. It looked like some Japanese tourists had the same issue. However, it was a place where I let my kids decide what they want to do and see, I walked after them. They needed this after all other museums they walked after me and listened to me patiently.

It's good place for young people. Science become easier here.

Good day out for children and adults alike. A short train journey from central paris brings you straight into the park. Some wonderful exhibits, lots of interactive ones. You will need a full day here to see everything. There are plenty of food stalls too and a nice little cafe bar next to the water feature. Cost is minimal to what you see and there are different packages and discounts to be had.

This was actually one of my favourite museums which surprised me. Not that I knew what to expect. . Although I loved the Lourve, Musee D'Orsay and all the other museums were great, I was a little museum'ed out! As I had the Musuem pass I thought I would take the opportunity to go to the science Musuem. The best thing about this was the interactive bit which you got to touch, feel, see which made it such a fun place to learn (yes, learn! Even though I was on holidays...) about math, astronomy, innovation. The best part was the design house exhibition which was ideas about how buildings and people were going to live in the future. It was fascinating to see how things have changed to today's world and what the future would potentially look like. Ther crowd was varied with parents and their kids, lots of couples (maybe tourists? although they were all speaking French) , school kids jotting down notes. It was a great way to spend a few hours at a Musuem but it didn't feel like a Musuem per se. Do it if you have some time to spare and you want to do something a little different from the paintings and sculptures!

Have been going here with my children since they were 2 years old my 15 year old son still enjoys visiting the museum. Don't expect a 'museum' like the Science or Natural History one in London. This one seems to offer a different perspective to the UK ones I have visited more 'discovery' and 'thought provoking' than the bald statements of facts that we are used to in UK museums. It helps if you can read & understand French since, although there are multilingual signs & explanations, the French ones are clearer & you get more from the (very helpful) staff if you speak their language. There are excellent special 'discovery' rooms for youngsters (under 11 if I remember rightly) which you have to book in advance they limit numbers so it does not get too busy. Our most recent visit coincided with a 'free weeked' but normally you have to pay you can generally pay on-line & collect tickets at the entrance. Having moved away from Paris, I am now out of date on costs, opening times & other details. Parking on site is ample. Food (despite being in France) is poor. Recent up-grades include seats for two or more people to sit side-by-side when looking at or exploring an exhibit. This is a vast improvement, I had not realised how much my attention span was influenced by my comfort and ability to share views or access to information! Site is indoors, although there are outside activites too & a 3D cinema. The shop offers a selection of books and toys. There seem to be few toys of interest to teenagers more oriented towards under 10 years old while the books, with one or two exceptions, are in French and targetted to all ages. Would & do return again & again!