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Scientific theme park with interactive exhibits on space travel and replica spacecraft. Most suited to 5–14 year olds.
The Cité de l'espace is a scientific discovery centre in France focused on spaceflight. It was opened in June 1997, and is located on the eastern outskirts of Toulouse. It was carried out on the initiative of the Town Hall of Toulouse with the participation of numerous partners such as the Regional Council of Midi-Pyrénées, the Ministries of Equipment, Transport, Defence, National Education, Research and Technology, the National Center for Space Studies (CNES), Météo-France, EADS, Astrium, among others. As of 2012, there had been more than four million visitors.
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See demonstrations of crazy custom contraptions, plus the chance to ride on a huge animatronic Minotaur, which costs the same again.
Asian arts and Egyptian antiquities museum in an exotic garden built in 1893. It remains closed.
Stark depictions of wartime events.
Museum of fine and decorative arts from the Middle Ages to 1939. Dupuy (1867–1944) was an art collector whose wealth came from pickled gherkins.
You'll think you're walking into a monastery: the gardens were part of an old Carmelite friary before expanding south.
This great ramshackle edifice is partly Gothic but mostly Dog's Breakfast – the medieval builders made a hash of things on a sublime scale. They half-built one church, abandoned it, started building another, abandoned that, while other sections were added and added instead of starting over with a clear site. The Archbishop of Toulouse has to come to work in this Frankencathedral.