Palais de la Découverte: detailed timetable for the reopening of the science museum

For the past five years, the Palais de la Découverte has been undergoing a major renovation. This Parisian science museum is located in the west wing of the Grand Palais. The monument has benefited from a major refurbishment project, and is gradually reopening its various spaces. After the grand reopening of the Grand Palais during the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Palais de la Découverte now takes center stage.

The museum has finally completed its transformation, and is preparing to welcome back its public. However, lovers of Palais de la Découverte will have to be patient: the museum is reopening, but only in part.

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The official date for the museum's reopening is June 11, 2025: all summer long, the Palais welcomes visitors with a multidisciplinary festival, exhibitions, workshops... The museum will then close its doors again for a few months, in order to complete the work and interior fitting out of the permanent spaces, before reopening definitively at the end of 2026.

So what can we see and do at the museum in the near future? When can we expect to see this key museum of the 8th arrondissement and of Paris back for good? Here's a detailed timetable.

• April 7, 2025: opening of ticket sales for the Palais des enfants and the Premières ondes festival
  
  
• May 12, 2025: launch of the new website
  
  
• June 11, 2025: reopening of the Palais de la Découverte, with two exhibitions and the Premières ondes festival. The permanent exhibition spaces will not be fitted out, but this is an opportunity to discover the renovated monument as it was when it was built.
  
  
• October 6, 2025: final renovation and refurbishment of the Palais de la Découverte's permanent exhibition areas. The Palais des Enfants remains open during this period, and the Les Étincelles space at the Palais de la Découverte remains open and active in the 15th arrondissement.
  
  
• End 2026: the Palais de la Découverte opens fully and definitively, and Les Étincelles closes.

For future news from the Palais de la Découverte, stay tuned to Sortiraparis.com!

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