Maison Poincaré

You are approaching the Maison Poincaré, the first museum in France entirely dedicated to mathematics. It sits within the Latin Quarter, housed inside the historic Jean Perrin building, which once functioned as a pioneering laboratory for physical chemistry. Jean Perrin, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, established this site in the nineteen twenties, and its transformation into a museum preserves that legacy while anchoring it in a modern, active research environment. The museum works in direct connection with the adjacent Institut Henri Poincaré, creating a unique space where the public can engage with mathematical concepts while researchers continue their work just steps away.