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| Astronaut exhibit |
The
Cité d'Espace in Toulouse has broken its record for attendance in 2017, with over 400,000 visitors. Boosted by improvements to some of the exhibits, such as the planetarium and the interest generated by the French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the numbers rose by 20% this year. In fact the day that Pesquet returned to earth, followed live at the museum, over 18000 visitors were in attendance.
Most visitors are French, with about 40% from the Toulouse region (school trips accounted for 55000 visitors). We did visit some 10 years ago, on a particularly wet summer's day and our guests would have benefitted from guided tours in English, no doubt rectified these days.
The museum details are on its web site at
http://www.cite-espace.com/
