Scientific museology, a whole history!

Colloquium 2016, Palais de la Découverte, Paris

On May 24, 1937, as part of the Paris International Exhibition, the Palais de la découverte opened its doors to a curious public, many of whom came to marvel at science. On March 13, 1986, on the occasion of the meeting between the Giotto probe and Halley’s comet, the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie was inaugurated in the Parc de la Villette.
In 2009, the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie and the Palais de la découverte were brought together in a common establishment, Universcience. The double anniversary of the 30th and 80th anniversaries gives the latter the opportunity to retrace the path taken by each of the two sites in the service of the dissemination of scientific, technical and industrial culture, and to highlight its living and inventive museology, its expertise in human mediation and its high level cultural engineering.
This celebration opens up the possibility, at the same time, of creating a new dynamic for the decades to come.

TimeWorld 2019

TimeWorld values connected intelligence
International Congress on Time in Paris (21, 22, 23 November 2019)

Can we live without a calendar? Does DNA record the passage of time? Do atoms take their time? Biological immortality: fiction or reality? Are musicians time makers? If you have these and many other questions about the weather, TimeWorld is for you.
Through conferences, round tables, shows, workshops, all participants contribute to the current reflection on time.

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Can we measure the Time?

Is the time of the gnomons back?

Time is finally a construction

Can we really travel to the future?

Can we say that the Universe has 13.8 bilion years?

Time perception: after one year of isolation

A single time for all, or each one his own?

Can we take over the time?

Chronobiology

What do you think time is?

Time of brands

Time according to Laurent Lafforgue

Time in the cinema

Perception of time in Japan

The time-measurement route

The time-measurement route was born from the desire of 5 museums, all dedicated to the watchmaking craft, to offer a synergy allowing tourists, as well as specialists, to discover 5 magnificent collections all complementary to each other, and this over a distance of about 80 km.

A cross-border collaboration between France and Switzerland has developed from Besançon to La Chaux-de-Fonds. They don’t talk about Neuchâtel and the Observatory! PDF File

Musée du Temps, Besançon, France
Musée de l’horlogerie, Morteau, France
Musée de la montre, Villers-le-Lac, France
Musée d’horlogerie du Locle, Suisse
Musée international d’horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Suisse

Display in the Musée d’horlogerie du Locle.

Exhibition Mobile / Immobile

Forum vies mobiles

Welcomed in many media, the Mobile/Immobile exhibition raises questions that resonate strongly in the current climate. What are the possible future in terms of mobility? Will we be able to travel tomorrow as much as today? Interview with Christophe Gay, Director of the Forum Vies mobiles. Until 29 April 2019 at the Archives nationales, in Paris.

Saluée dans de nombreux médias, l’exposition Mobile/Immobile pose des questions qui résonnent fortement dans le climat actuel. Quels sont les futurs possibles en matière de mobilité ? Pourra-t-on se déplacer demain autant qu’aujourd’hui ? Interview du directeur du Forum Vies mobiles, Christophe Gay. Jusqu’au 29 avril 2019 aux Archives nationales, à Paris.

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Musée Eclaté / Fragmented museum

A fragmented museum? What a strange name. And yet, underneath this terminology lies an amazing place. Or rather an amazing village. Cardaillac, a little jewel but also the guardian of a past life. A life that could have been totally forgotten if Annie Mage and a handful of friends had not mobilized. When Annie decided in 1984 to create the event by organizing an exhibition on the tools of the past, she didn’t think she would collect so many objects. 230 in total, all trades combined. A collector at heart, she began to pursue her research and over the years collected school materials, pottery pieces, objects related to the wine world… “But what to do with all this, where to store all these parts?” It was then that the brilliant idea of recovering various buildings in the village to turn them into a scattered museum was born. The house of the semalier, the chestnut dryer, the prune oven, the hoof maker’s house, the oil mill, the school…. From barn to sheepfold, this funny museum now tells the story of yesterday’s daily life through seven different places with more than 3000 pieces. The visit to Cardaillac is likely to take a few hours!

Un musée éclaté ? Quel drôle de nom. Et pourtant, sous cette terminologie se cache un étonnant lieu. Ou plutôt un étonnant village. Cardaillac, un petit bijou mais aussi le gardien d’une vie passée. Une vie qui aurait pu être totalement oubliée si Annie Mage et une poignée d’amis ne s’étaient pas mobilisés. Lorsqu’en 1984 Annie décide de créer l’évènement en organisant une exposition sur les outils d’autrefois, elle ne pensait pas récolter autant d’objets. 230 au total, tout corps de métiers confondus. Collectionneuse dans l’âme, elle entreprend alors de poursuivre ses recherches et amasse au fil des ans, du matériel d’école, des pièces de poteries, des objets liés au monde viticole… “Mais que faire de tout ça, où stocker toutes ces pièces ?”. C’est alors que l’idée géniale de récupérer différents bâtiments du village pour en faire un musée dispersé est née. La maison du semalier, le séchoir à châtaigne, l’étuve à pruneaux, la maison du sabotier, le moulin à huile, l’école… De grange en bergerie, ce drôle de musée raconte aujourd’hui le quotidien d’hier à travers sept lieux différents de plus de 3000 pièces. La visite de Cardaillac risque fort de prendre quelques heures !

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Le Creusot-Montceau-les-Mines, France

A fragmented museum: the Museum of Man and Industry