What is the reality of prisons today? The exhibition offers you a reflection on our prison system inherited from the 18th century. Conceived in an immersive way, it explains, through the accounts of former prisoners but also through representations of our collective imagination, the paradox according to which prison isolates the individual to punish him and protect society, while aiming at his reintegration. A...

Present on our bodies, thousands of insects and mites share our daily lives. Among them, lice, fleas, ticks or flies. All of them contribute to the balance of an ecosystem that we are disturbing. The exhibition invites young and old to step into the shoes of a scientist who, thanks to a microscope, unravels the mystery of this tiny world. Transported on the scale of "small animals", switch to a parallel...

Surprising, and sometimes spectacular, headdresses protect the head, both literally and symbolically. As markers of identity, they allow warriors, newly-weds or monarchs to express their status in society. Amazed by their beauty and strangeness, Antoine de Galbert, founder of 'la maison rouge' in Paris, has collected more than five hundred of them. In 2017, he donated this extraordinary collection to the Musée des...