General Information
Project Type
| Structure: |
Dome |
|---|---|
| Function / usage: |
Exhibition hall |
| Material: |
roof: Steel structure |
Awards and Distinctions
| 2000 |
for registered users |
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Location
| Location: |
Paris ( 8th), Paris, Ile-de-France, France |
|---|---|
| Address: | Avenue Winston-Churchill |
| Part of: | |
| Coordinates: | 48° 51' 58.15" N 2° 18' 45.09" E |
Technical Information
Materials
| dome |
steel
|
|---|---|
| walls |
stone
|
Chronology
|
October 2001
— March 2003 |
Renovation works (cost: 50.7 million Euros). |
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
The 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. It is open daily except Monday; an admission fee is charged.
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". In 1938 the French government decided to convert the facility into a new museum, which now occupies 25,000 square metres within the west wing of the Grand Palais (Palais d'Antin) built for the Exposition Universelle (1900) to designs by architect Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas.
In January 2010 the museum was merged with the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie under one institution is 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. It includes a Zeiss planetarium with 15-metre dome.
Pi room
The museum contains a circular room known as the "pi room". On its wall is inscribed 707 digits of the number π. The digits are large wooden characters attached to the dome-like ceiling. The digits were based on an 1853 calculation by English mathematician William Shanks, which included an error in the 528th digit. The error was detected in 1946 and corrected in 1949.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Palais de la Découverte" and modified on June 3, 2020 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
- Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas (architect)
- Albert Louvet (architect)
- Henri Deglane (architect)
- Charles Girault (architect)
- Meige et Piollet Entreprises SA (roof)
- SA Toitures Petit et fils (roof)
- SMET TS
- Spie Fondations
- Spie SCGPM
- Van Mullem (roof)
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2000): 100 Monuments du XXe Siècle. Patrimoine et architecture de France. Editions France Loisirs, Paris (France), pp. 18-19.
- (2003): L'art de Paris. Editions Place des Victoires, Paris (France).
- (2004): Chef-d'oeuvre de couverture au Grand Palais. In: Le Moniteur des Travaux Publics et du Bâtiment, n. 5249 (2 July 2004), pp. 66-67.
- Des barres DYWIDAG pour restaurer le patrimoine français. Réfection du Grand Palais, Paris, France. In: DSI Info, n. 12 ( 2003- 2004), pp. 20.
- DYWIDAG Bars to restore the French inheritance. Upgrading of the Grand Palais, Paris, France. In: DSI Info, n. 12 ( 2003- 2004), pp. 26.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20001460 - Published on:
30/04/2001 - Last updated on:
16/03/2019
