Cancers, climate emergency and crowd movements on the program of the Cité des sciences

Exploring cancer in all its facets, plunging into the crowds, acting in conscience for the planet will be the major exhibitions of the 2022-2023 season at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie in Paris.

exhibition will

delve into the mysteries of this ancient but still taboo disease, which affects nearly 4% of the population, Bruno Maquart, president of Universcience, the public establishment bringing together the Cité des sciences and the Palais de la Découverte.

The exhibition, in partnership with the National Cancer Institute, will address the subject in its scientific, social and physical dimensions: functioning of the cancer cell, inventory of treatments and research,

of the announcement of the disease, prevention...

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"Cancer is not only an individual matter but also a social and political one, because 42% of cancers are due to factors over which we have control: our lifestyles, our work, the air we breathe, what we eat”

, added Bruno Maquart.

The Cité des sciences, located in La Villette in the north-east of Paris, will also discover the phenomenon of crowds (October 2022-August 2023) to understand the physical, cognitive and sociological mechanisms at work, including in the sphere digital.

The public will be invited to experience crowd baths for the worst (jostling, false rumours...) and the best (experience of collective intelligence, singing in chorus...).

Climate emergency and the city of babies

From April 2023, the establishment will offer

, a new permanent and

exhibition , under the scientific direction of climatologist Jean Jouzel.

It will offer an overview of the mechanisms aimed at the

, according to Bruno Maquart.

After an experiment launched in 2019, the Cité des Bébés will open its doors for 0-2 year olds from spring 2023, with an

interior space and garden , without plastic or mobile phones so that adults can be there.

.

Closed for work until 2025, the Palais de la Découverte will continue its scientific mediation activities in an ephemeral structure, Les Étincelles, which welcomed nearly 100,000 visitors last year.