Exceptional closure at the Cité de l’Espace Toulouse

Cité de L’Espace is forced to close in the coming weeks to preserve its facilities after the success of the summer period.

In order to constantly adapt the quality of the equipment, the Cité de l’Espace has specified two periods of shutdown for maintenance. First, full closure from Monday 5 September to Friday 9 September. Then the Imax® auditorium and the Planetarium will be closed from September 1 to October 6. From Friday, October 7, the Cité de l’Espace will fully resume all its activities and performances.

During these maintenance periods, the Cité de l’espace invites visitors to discover or rediscover its various offerings, including:

> The temporary exhibition currently on the International Space Station that honors the European astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) and showcases the daily lives of astronauts and teams working with them from Earth;

> Immersive Animation The Rovers take the stage! on the all-new Martian Terrain, which invites the public to meet the Martian robots currently exploring the planet Mars;

> Moon Exhibition Episode 2 raises public awareness of the lunar environment and the current challenges that must be faced to enable sustainable human settlement on the Moon. How do we live, eat and work on the moon? All of these topics are addressed in the exhibition through experiences and situations. An evocation of lunar projects, such as the Artemis mission to return astronauts to the Moon, is also presented within this exhibition;

> The new James Webb Space Telescope area invites young and old to sit comfortably to enjoy images of the universe and to understand the differences between this new telescope and the Hubble telescope in particular.