If you ever go to Paris, the Musée des arts et métiers (museum of arts and crafts) is a big museum on technological and industrial progress (with a 19th century focus if I remember correctly) . The main attraction are the original models of the very first planes from Clément Ader suspended under the vaults.
But by far the best place to go is the Palais de la Découverte. It has everything you expect in a science museum like a Pi room, exhibitions, a planetarium and so on, but the main interest are the dozens of available live demonstrations about basically any scientific subject—ranging from animal learning to radioactivity, Newtonian dynamic to electrostatic. The electrostatic presentation is particularly amazing, as is the liquid air one. Most of the demonstrations are aimed at children or young teenagers, but there are also some meatier ones at least a couple of time a day (the program changes every day). In any case the people who do the demonstrations are extremely accessible for any questions and generally competent (they seem to be science grad students I think).
If you ever go to Paris, the Musée des arts et métiers (museum of arts and crafts) is a big museum on technological and industrial progress (with a 19th century focus if I remember correctly) . The main attraction are the original models of the very first planes from Clément Ader suspended under the vaults.
But by far the best place to go is the Palais de la Découverte. It has everything you expect in a science museum like a Pi room, exhibitions, a planetarium and so on, but the main interest are the dozens of available live demonstrations about basically any scientific subject—ranging from animal learning to radioactivity, Newtonian dynamic to electrostatic. The electrostatic presentation is particularly amazing, as is the liquid air one. Most of the demonstrations are aimed at children or young teenagers, but there are also some meatier ones at least a couple of time a day (the program changes every day). In any case the people who do the demonstrations are extremely accessible for any questions and generally competent (they seem to be science grad students I think).