Palais de la Découverte

'Discovery Palace') is a science museum located in the Grand Palais, in the 8th arrondissement on Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, Paris, France.

The museum was created in 1937 by Jean Baptiste Perrin (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1926) during an international exhibition on "Arts and techniques in modern life".

72-367 of April 28 transformed the Palais de la Découverte into an autonomous public establishment.

[3] In January 2010, the museum was merged with the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie under one institution named universcience with two locations.

Today the museum contains permanent exhibits for mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, and biology, featuring interactive experiments with commentaries by lecturers.