Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, the third most popular museum center of Paris (after the Louvre and the Pompidou Centre), located in the park of La Villette. During the year the town is visited by about five million people, most of them, of course, children and adolescents. Although there is interesting and adult.

The idea of ​​creating in Paris, already not deprived science museums, a major new center of this kind put forward in 1977 by President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. He saw children acquainted with science and technology, awakening their curiosity and passion for research as a state task. Call for proposals won architect Adrian Fansilber - he proposed to use as a museum of old slaughterhouses huge pavilion of the park of La Villette. He opened the town is the next president, Francois Mitterrand. The event was timed to the date of the meeting of the probe "Giotto" European Space Agency with Halley's comet (13 March 1986).

The town became the biggest science museum in Europe. It is the heart of the scientific culture, technology and industry (CCSTI), also located in La Villette. The museum includes special areas for children and teenagers, a planetarium, a real submarine, an amazing theater "La geodes" and many other objects.

Children under seven years of age can your heart's content to tinker with amazing water and pneumatic toys, build a house made of light bricks, manage mobile. For older children (under 12 years) has themed areas, where special animators are something like the exciting workshops. Topics - studio, water, garden, plant, human body.

The planetarium campus computers 360 screens by the surrounding visitors "live" image - you can see the birth of the universe, the appearance of the Earth. Next - a giant glittering egg Cinema "La geodes". High-definition image is projected on the 10,000 square meters of the hemispherical screen, viewers are totally immersed in the film.

Visitors can climb aboard the submarine "Argonaut" - this battle ship of the French Navy, the legendary ship, ten times the Earth's equator obognuvshego. In 1989, the submarine made its last flight on the channel Ourcq to anchor near the cinema "La geodes".