No sooner do I finish making fun of Paris for being so over-museumed that it has two separate Asian art museums than I discover that it also has two kid-oriented science museums: the City of Sciences and Industry and this one, the Discovery Palace. And yet, while the City of Sciences and Industry is far newer and shinier, I seem to remember dissing its “pervasive lukewarm hotdog smell” and uninspired, uninteresting displays. The Discovery Palace, by contrast, is pretty awesome. The displays are engaging – you learn about sensory perception from tanks of electric fish or physics by sending pendulums crashing into one another. Most importantly, the museum avoids the blind leading the blind phenomena by having lots of talks and demonstrations in every subject area throughout the day. It’s all in French, but worth checking out if you’re a science-museum fan.
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