Mus'X
The museum is on the ground floor of the school’s library. Visitors can consult the collection that comprises of scientific instruments, books, manuscripts and art works.
Interactive Experience
Interactive media and videos allow visitors to discover the collection using tactile tablets. The museum is organised thematically:
- For whom and for what do we teach the sciences?
- How to teach the sciences?
- Science or sciences?
- Sciences and war.
- The sciences in society.
The museum also accommodates a temporary exhibition space devoted to the great French mathematician, Gaspard Monge, who was the founder of the Polytechnic School at the end of the 18th century.
Interfaces
The interactive experience uses a simple and global interface that allows one to navigate a wide range of datas: pioneering works, pupils, famous people of the school (exhibited as sculptures and paintings), a dictionary of the school’s lingo.