Visitors to the Cité des Sciences
Visitors since 1986
The Cité des Sciences has welcomed over 70 million visitors since it opened in 1986. It is the fifth most popular museum in France (after the Louvre, the Pompidou Centre, Versailles and the Musée d'Orsay).
Visitors in 2008
- Total number of visitors: 3,042,000 (average of 16,700 visitors a day).
What they did
- 1,659,000 visited the Cité's exhibitions.
- 580,000 used its resource centres (multimedia library, vocational guidance centre, health information centre, Digital Forum).
- 556,000 saw a film at the Géode.
- 238,000 attended an event at the La Villette Conference Centre.
- 21,000 attended lectures run by the Collège de la Cité.
Visitors to exhibitions in 2008
Of the 1,659,000 visitors to the Cité's exhibitions :
- 1,148,000 came with family or friends.
- 512,000 came on a group visit, including 480,000 in school-age parties. After the Louvre, the Cité receives more school groups than any other venue in France.
- 55% were first-time visitors.
- 58% were aged under 20.
- 49% lived in the Paris region.
- 53% spent four hours or more in the Cité.
Where visitors to exhibitions in 2008 came from
A majority of the visitors from other parts of France came from one of five regions: Rhône-Alps (57,284), Brittany (45,650), Centre (40,331), Picardy (32,243), Loire (30,138).
Last update: December 2009
