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Pollutec Horizons attracts more than 40,000 management-level visitors from every industry sector who are looking for answers to their organisation's environmental issues. Energy usage, climate…
The title Paris Boat Show is a little limiting for this mammoth event at Porte de Versailles. It encompasses boats of all shapes and sizes plus every conceivable activity related to water…
Paris' Cité des Sciences presents Crimexpo, an interactive display looking at crime scene investigation which lets visitors do the police work themselves. The museum's curator has been found…
International Agricultural Show
The International Agricultural Show at the Porte de Versailles is a real institution in France. Numerous exhibits feature the top models of the animal world, meaty gastronomic delicacies from…
French Language Week at the Cité des Sciences
Each year the organisers of French Language Week choose ten words on which to hang a series of special events. A programme of related events such as Francobingo takes place at Paris' Cité des…
Toujours Plus Vite at the Musée des Arts et Métiers
Paris's Musée des Arts et Métiers looks at the history of the railways in its latest exhibition, Toujours Plus Vite (Always Faster). Discover France's great locomotive history from the steam…
Darwin Year: La Ruée Vers L'Homme
To celebrate Charles Darwin's bicentennial year, and in partnership with Paris' Museum of Natural History, the Cité des Sciences presents La Ruée Vers l'Homme. The display charts the origins…
Issy-les-Moulineaux in the southern suburbs of Paris, hosts its annual Cube Festival - six days of street art, concerts, plays, workshops and activities for kids. The festival aims to promote…
The annual bash of the Communist newspaper L'Humanité is held in Paris' Parc de la Corneuve. An opportunity for left-wingers to meet and greet, Fête de L'Humanité pulls in party members from…
The Paris-Deauville Rally includes a gathering and exhibition of pre-1940s vintage cars, coupés and cabriolets designed before 1960. Enthusiasts also race their precious vehicles starting at…
@rt Outsiders: Art and the Environment
Paris' annual modern art festival, @rt Outsiders, comes to the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. The festival explores issues relating to nature, science and technology. This year, the…
The Catacombes, in Denfert-Rochereau, are a labyrinth of quarried tunnels - the final resting place of 6 million Parisians whose bodies were moved here from overcrowded graves in 1810. Dare…
Architect Jean Nouvel's ultra-modern Branly Museum, near the Eiffel Tower, showcases collections of anthropological and ethnological artefacts, and primitive art from Africa, Oceania, Asia and…
If you've ever fancied yourself as the Jean-Paul Sartre of the 21st century, tossing your scarf and puffing on your Gauloise as you discourse on the meaning of life in a Parisian café, then…
Le Grand Récit de l'Univers at the Cité des Sciences
How old is the universe? Is there a limit to outer space? How did it all come to exist anyway? Paris' Cité des Sciences sets out to answer the world's biggest questions with Le Grand Récit de…
Tours of the Paris Observatory
Paris' Observatory, renowned centre of astronomy, opens its doors to a select few each week. Tours are organised in groups of 20-30 - you need to ring in advance to see if there are sufficient…
Paris' Explor@dome is an interactive centre of learning for science and new media. Its exhibits are aimed at adults and children and the emphasis is always on participation - the museum's…
