To celebrate the Journées du Patrimoine 2025, on Saturday September 20 and Sunday September 21, 2025, the Musée Curie is opening its doors exceptionally and free of charge throughout the weekend.
It's a wonderful way to immerse yourself in the world of the Curies, the family of five Nobel Prize winners (Marie twice, her husband Pierre, her daughter Irène and her son-in-law Frédéric Joliot) whose discoveries led to an understanding of radioactivity and major medical advances.
Journées du Patrimoine 2025 in Paris (75): full schedule of visits by arrondissement
For the Journées du Patrimoine 2025 in Paris, the capital's historic and artistic monuments and landmarks are opening their doors (often free of charge) to let us in on their secrets. Don't miss this not-to-be-missed event, scheduled for the weekend of September 20 and 21, 2025, on the theme of "Architectural Heritage". [Read more]
During this 2025 edition of the Journées du Patrimoine, a large number of museums and art foundations are opening their doors free of charge in Paris and the Île-de-France region. Join us on Saturday, September 20 and Sunday, September 21, 2025, for a program full of wonderful discoveries. [Read more]
Did you know? The Musée Curie is located in Marie Curie's former living quarters, on the very spot where she studied and taught radioactivity over a century ago. This is your chance to explore Marie Curie's buildings, office and personal chemistry laboratory, as well as the garden she created between the two pavilions of theRadium Institute.
Self-guided tours, flash guided tours : during these open days, you decide the tempo... Find out what's in store for you at this year's Heritage Days!
Visit the Musée Curie, located in the very place where Marie Curie and Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie worked. Follow in the footsteps of "the family of five Nobel Prize winners": the history of their laboratory in the historic Institut du Radium, the story of their discoveries, radioactivity, radium, radiotherapy... Discover Marie Curie's office and personal chemistry laboratory, preserved in their original state.
Follow in the footsteps of the Institut du Radium's history with a guided tour in LSF, led by an LSF scientific mediator. From the development of radioactivity to its medical applications, explore the major contributions of Marie and Pierre Curie, Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie, and their collaborators. This tour immerses you in a place emblematic of twentieth-century science. An inclusive, enriching and immersive experience, specially designed for deaf and hearing-impaired visitors.
Discover the Institut du Radium with an original guided tour led by a student from the École du Louvre. From the façade to the various pavilions, via the garden and a detour through Marie Curie's office and chemistry laboratory, this exploration will plunge you into the architectural and scientific history of this emblematic site, where her son-in-law and daughter, Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie, also worked.
At the crossroads of science and heritage, this tour takes you behind the scenes of a unique 20th-century research center.
In partnership with École du Louvre Junior Conseil.
Large laboratory near Sorbonne for radiant experiments...
In 1903, Pierre Curie (1859-1906) and Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934) were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of Radium in a shed made of planks and sheet metal. The two scientists could only dream of a new laboratory adapted to their research. This dream only came true after Pierre Curie's death, with the construction of the Institut du Radium de Paris, one of several research and science teaching institutes: the first "Cité des Sciences de Paris" in the making. How did this dream take shape, thanks to Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Sorbonne architect Henri-Paul Nénot (1853-1934)? This talk sheds light on how the architecture of the Institut du Radium was designed to serve a new scientific field and its practices.
By Léa Hascoët, architect and doctoral student at the Université Paris-Saclay in the Etudes sur les Sciences et les Techniques laboratory since 2024.
So, are you ready to learn all you can about Marie Curie?
Dates and Opening Time
From September 20, 2025 to September 21, 2025
Location
Curie Museum
1 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie
75005 Paris 5
Access
RER B station "Luxembourg
Prices
Free
Recommended age
From 16 years old
Official website
musee.curie.fr
Journées du Patrimoine 2025 in Paris (75): full schedule of visits by arrondissement
Journées du Patrimoine 2025: the program at museums in Paris and the Île-de-France region
