For a Science educational visit with broad scope, and easily reachable from school, Paris has a number of suitable attractions.
You may also wish to combine the tour with an onward visit to Futuroscope in Poitiers.
- Air and Space Museum
Traces the history of manned flight right through to space satellites and is now the French home of Concorde. - Cité des Sciences et l'Industrie
There are twenty permanent exhibitions covering space, stars and galaxies, computers, biology, the sea and much more, together with a hemispherical cinema, a 3D cinema and a planetarium. - Jardin des Plantes
To include palaeontology and the Gallery of Evolution. - Palais de la Découverte
Contains permanent exhibits for mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, and biology, featuring interactive experiments with commentaries by lecturers. It includes a Zeiss planetarium with 15-meter dome.
