Paris, 11 November 2026
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, visited the Palais de la Découverte in Paris. The Palais de la Découverte is one of the wings of the Grand Palais and a museum and science education centre housing galleries dedicated to astronomy, geoscience, chemistry, physics, electricity, mathematics and computer science, as well as a planetarium and testing and simulation laboratories.
Prime Minister Kurti was welcomed by Ms Sylvie Retailleau, President of Universcience, the French public institution that brings together two major science centres, the Palais de la Découverte and the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, and Ms Sophie Biecheler, Deputy Director for Institutional, Territorial and International Affairs.
“The programmes of these two centres are aligned with the school curriculum and tailored to children from an early age, so that school visits are linked to the exhibitions. Scientific mediation and museology for children are at the heart of their work, with the aim of stimulating curiosity and developing critical thinking. In addition to permanent and temporary exhibitions, they also offer travelling exhibitions that visit different locations,” said Prime Minister Kurti.
Prime Minister Kurti and Ms Retailleau, who previously served as Minister for Higher Education and Research, discussed the importance of this encouraging form of interaction between children and science, offered by these multidisciplinary centres, which would also be highly valuable in our country.
Prime Minister Kurti, accompanied by his associates, also visited the Palais de la Découverte, where renovation works are under way ahead of its reopening in the spring of next year.
