Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie
The Cité des sciences et de l'industrie (English: City of Sciences and Industry ) dominates the northern part of the Parc de la Villette in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. It is the heart of an institution for the purpose of promotion of the scientific and technical culture: More than a Science, Technology and Industry Museum it forms its own town ( Cité ) and is the largest popular science museum in Europe. Together with the Cité de la Musique and the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, they each form a vertex in the Parc de la Villette.
The Cité is a " Établissement public" - that is, as much as a public institution that specializes in the placement of scientific and technical culture and the responsibility of two French ministries - the Culture and the Ministry of Research - stands. It serves a wide audience, particularly children and young people in the dissemination of scientific and technical knowledge and to awaken in this way the interest of citizens for science, research and industry in society, and annually attracts more than five million visitors.
There are also the older science museum Palais de la Découverte in Paris, which is united with the Cité since 2009 in an urban society.
Showrooms
The Cité allows access to numerous showrooms and facilities.
Exploratory ( levels 1, 2 and 3)
It includes 30,000 sqm approximately two thirds of the exhibition space. The most important permanent exhibitions, organized by topic, are: mathematics, optics and lighting, acoustics, water and sea, biology and biotechnology, energy, transport and automotive, mineralogy and volcanology, astronomy and space travel.
Each department has the size of a private museum. In the Department of Transportation missing neither the outstanding examples of French engineering, such as the TGV, the driverless VAL Métro, still a model of the recent French fighter Rafale or a Formula 1 racing car. A flight simulator of an Airbus cockpit is yet another attraction. In the Space Department, inter alia, the third stage and the engine of the European rocket Ariane 5 are shown. In the optical department you can learn from photography to holography.
In a passage about the " Green Bridge " in more than 20 m above the entrance hall you win an impression of the biotechnology and genetic engineering. In a greenhouse the 20th century the breeding of various crops is shown. In the marine department videos of marine science of living beings on the hot vents of submarine volcanoes shown to exist thanks to the heat and the exiting sulfur without light and oxygen.
In Odorama game 's sense of smell is subjected to a test.
Temporary exhibitions dealing for example with the brain, the 200- year history of the industrialization of France, the 50 - year anniversary of the Citroën DS, the importance of water, the biometrics or Roman glass blowers craft.
Media Library ( level -1 )
The science library is spread over three floors. It is divided into three major areas also:
- Large public,
- Childhood and
- History of science.
At the same time you will find the interactive facilities that allow one to immediately watch films, documentaries, animation, CD -ROMs, etc.. In level 0 one finds the children library and the cinema Les Shadoks.
The Cité of children ( level 0)
Designed for the attendance of children at the Cité divided 3 to 12 years in two spaces: the space for 3 - to 5 -year-old and the Techno Cité, the space for 6 - to 12 -year-old.
The Planetarium (level 2)
The Planetarium is located at the exhibitions. Under a dome of 21 meters in diameter is projected onto this the starry sky, whose course is imitated by 10,000 small telescopes. At the same time simulate 125 projectors the course of the sun, the planets and the moon. Together with a corresponding sound is (apart from the lack of gravity ) the impression of a space journey generated.
Carrefour numérique (about: digital crossover ) ( level -1 )
This space of 1200 m² is a big cyberspace. It is composed of an information surface which access is granted to a number of " Dictatielen "; kiosk with access to the Internet; an introductory workshop in the computer science; a studio, you can work in the multimedia; a digital classroom for students and an agora, to participate in events, meetings and debates on digital culture. Here is engaged in, for example, an event with the Google Maps.
Cité of Occupations ( level -1 )
Information location about training and professions; the Cité of professions advisors is available and also maintains an important documentation of the fundus.
Cité of health ( level -1 )
It is located at the entrance of the large public library and is an information and consultation room to all the health issues.
Other
- The auditorium (level 0 ) is a conference room for educational programs
- A convention center ( level -1 )
- The Aquarium ( level -2 )
- The cinema Louis Lumière (level 0)
- The hall Jean Bertin (level 0)
- The space Condorcet (level 0)
- A picnic area (level 0)
- A post office counter (level 0)
- A boutique for sale of books and science games ( level 0)
- Restaurants ( level -2 )
Thanks to infrared technology, you can follow via a wireless headset to an audio guide in 18 languages, the visitor exactly that part of the exhibition explains where this is currently located. Each department has videos. The variety of didactically structured, interactive experiments, invite the visitor to playfully searchingly and creatively to approach the various topics.
The museum survived by his experience nature, not of exhibits. Greenhouses where plants according to various climate zones are located, connecting the interior of the building with an outdoor, dominate in the water basins that lead to the park (see image ).
Criticism
While in most publications, the creativity -promoting concept is praised keep critics, such as Norbert Mappes - Niedeck, replies that the Cité is a huge temple made of steel and glass in which the once happy, now chill exciting, Science and faith in technology of 1960s niste.
As an example, he leads a computer learning program, in which, under the question " How is a child begotten? ", After the fusion of egg and sperm in a petri dish, the selection of a surrogate mother " ... depending on the origin, age, number of pregnancies and qualifications ... " is described by a software.
Also, a model of the core of Superphénix, which is operated by the EDF breeder reactor or the roll of honor of the " famous families of chemical fiber ," which was funded by the chemical industry, are cited as evidence for the accusation that the museum is an industrial monument.
History
Was located at the Paris Porte de la Villette, formerly a 40,000 m² large slaughterhouse and cattle market, where about 3,000 people found employment. Slaughterhouse and livestock market were relocated in 1974 after Pantin and 1979 a project to convert the almost to the Boulevard Périphérique reaching 55 -acre area designed to revive this neglected and run-down neighborhood in the 19th arrondissement.
The architect Adrien Fainsilber was commissioned on September 15, 1980 in order to develop from initiated in the 1960s, construction of a huge, unfinished hall of the slaughterhouse a futuristic science and technology museum of steel and glass. This was inaugurated on 13 March 1986 on the occasion of the meeting of Halley's comet with the European space probe Giotto by President François Mitterrand. It added so that the previously existing Palais de la Découverte (English: Palace of Discovery ) at the Grand Palais.
The president of the museum in chronological order:
- The physicist Maurice Lévy 1985
- Christian Marbach 1987
- Roger Lesgards 1988
- Pierre David 1993
- Gérard Ghery 1995
- The mathematician Michel Demazure 1998
- Jean -François Hébert 2002
- Claudie Haigneré 2009
Transport links
The Cité des sciences et de l'industrie is on the metro line 7 to the north from the station Porte de la Villette or the Métro line 5 from the station Porte de Pantin or with bus routes 75, 139, 150 and 152 away to the South.
The Paris city fathers have failed to use the disused railway ring Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture with their nearby station Pont de Flandre to improve the accessibility of the museum.
Environment of the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie
- The Maison de la Villette ( showroom )
- The spherical, 36 m in diameter comprehensive multimedia IMAX theater La geode with a projected area of 1000 square meters and about 100 seats
- The Cinaxe, a cinema from the perspective of a Boeing 747 cockpit with 3D flight simulation facility
- Your old submarine of the French Navy l' Argonaute, which was overhauled on a French shipyard before it got to its current berth in the outdoor area between La geode and the Canal de l' Ourcq over the Seine and the Canal Saint- Denis
- An equestrian center Jardin des voltiges (German: Vaulting Garden )
- The Trabendo ( showroom )
- The Rotunda Cabaret sauvage (English: wild cabaret )
- A marquee
- The Zenith, a function room for concerts, particularly rock concerts
- The international theater of the French language
- The Grand Hall, are shown in the most changing fine art exhibitions
- The Cité de la musique with the Musée de la musique
- The pavilion Paul Delouvrier
- The Theatre Paris -Villette
- The Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (English: National Music and Dance Conservatory of Paris)
- The bright red created by Bernard Tschumi 26 " Folies " at the Parc de la Villette, examples of deconstructivist architecture.