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- Le bâtiment Perrault
© Observatoire de Paris
THE TOUR (tour length: 2 hours)
The tour will take visitors through every floor of the Perreault Building, where they will discover:
In the ground floor, the talking clocks room, including the first talking clock created by E. Esclangon in 1933.
In the first floor, the grand gallery, featuring some of the most remarkable instruments in the Observatoire’s collection, as well as the Council Room, with its portraits of the Observatoire’s directors.
In the second floor, Cassini Hall, through which runs the Paris meridian along a north-south axis marked by a brass strip.
On the upper roof, the 19th-century Arago dome and its astronomical telescope.
The tour continues in the gardens (weather permitting) with a visit to two buildings, one housing an equatorial telescope and the other a meridian telescope, both from the 19th century.
INFORMATION
When
Tuesday or Thursday.
2:00 pm.
Tour begins at
61, avenue de l’Observatoire, Paris 14
(Metro Denfert Rochereau lines 4 or 6, or RER Port Royal line B).
Reservations
By email (preferred): visite.paris@obspm.fr
By mail: Observatoire de Paris, La carte du Ciel, 61 av. de l’Observatoire, 75014 Paris.
Telephone: 01 40 51 23 97
Group rates - all included (2009)
Full rate: 120 euros.
Reduced rate (proof required): 70 euros (unemployed, Education Nationale,
CNRS, schoolchildren, students).
School group rate – all included (2009): 70 euros.
