At the Palais de la Découverte, lecturers carry out interactive experiments and explain them as they go. These demonstrations run through permanent exhibits on mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology and biology. The museum also includes a Zeiss planetarium with a 15-metre dome.
The museum occupies about 25,000 square metres in the west wing of the Grand Palais, known as the Palais d'Antin. Architect Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas designed this wing for the Exposition Universelle of 1900. It stands on Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 8th arrondissement.
The physicist Jean Baptiste Perrin, winner of the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics, created the museum in 1937 during an international exhibition on arts and techniques in modern life. In 1938 the French government decided to make it a new museum, and in 1940 it was linked to the University of Paris. Since 2010 it has belonged to a single institution, Universcience, together with the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie.
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