At Plateau créatif, you can explore, tinker and tinker! Here, creativity and experimentation are the keys to learning science. Le Plateau créatif encourages young people to invent, to do-it-yourself and to exchange ideas to find solutions to simple problems.
Welcome to Quai des Savoirs
A contemporary cultural center dedicated to science, innovation and creativity, the Quai des Savoirs brings together disciplines and approaches to imagine desirable futures.
Immersive exhibitions, hands-on workshops, encounters with scientists and artists, digital installations, participatory science… all year round, we offer to the public a wide range of opportunities to rise the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Quai des Petits
From 2 to 7 years
At Quai des Petits, you can manipulate, explore and tinker! Discover a space brimming with activities designed to awaken the curiosity of the youngest visitors and give them a new approach to science!
Lumières sur le Quai
Art and science festival
Every year, the Lumières sur le Quai festival brings together different disciplines and artistic and scientific perspectives.
Creative residencies
At the crossroads of arts and sciences, Quai des Savoirs hosts artists in residence to support their creative work by connecting them with researchers, associations and businesses.
Discover the various projects supported by reading the residency journals.
Portraits in skin colors
Angélica Dass
Humanae is an ongoing photographic project by Angélica Dass. Through portraits, she documents the colors of human skin, challenging racial labels such as “white,” “black,” “yellow,” or “red.”
Meet Sylvain Darrifourcq
Sylvain Darrifourcq
In creative residencies from September 10 to 18, Sylvain Darrifourcq, accompanied by researcher Clément Cannone, is conducting experiments on desynchronization: “Being desynchronized, in music, means playing at a different tempo from the person I’m playing with.”
Quai des Savoirs
AdressAllée Matilda, 31 000 TOULOUSE
+335 67 73 84 84
ScheduleOpen Tuesday to Sunday: 10h to 18h
