TOMBER, TOURNER, ROULER

MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE

 

Temporary exhibition
PAR LA FORCE DES CHOSES
31 May 2023 to 2 March 2025

 

MUSÉE D'HISTOIRE DES SCIENCES
The Museum is open every day
EXCEPT TUESDAYS, Christmas Day (December 25) and New Year's Day (January 1)

 

10h-17h
on 24 and 31 December, the Museum closes at 16h

 

FALL, TURN, ROLL
NEW EXHIBITION!

 

Catching your feet in the carpet, losing your balance, trying to catch yourself and, finally, falling and rolling on the floor. It's probably happened to you. But do you know what causes it, apart from clumsiness? Well, a physical phenomenon that's omnipresent in our lives: the force of gravity.

 

How can we explain the cause of falling bodies? Our understanding of gravity has evolved since Antiquity, under the guidance of the great names in the history of science, from Aristotle to Einstein. These scientists have accompanied their thinking with famous experiments: Galileo and his inclined plane, Newton and his apple, Foucault and his pendulum, and it's through these that the exhibition invites you to explore.

 

There's nothing like interactive elements: inclined planes, pendulums, gyroscopes and other spinning tops to illustrate the forces that make people fall, turn or roll... in a word, to understand a phenomenon and have a good time with science!

 

Bilingual French-English exhibition
Free
Ages 4 and up