nter the exhibition, forget the world outside: you are plunged into a "primative soup" of cell life, going back three billion years.
At the centre of the first "red box" giving access to the exhibition, your gaze is drawn to a well of images: dividing bacteria, reproducing to infinity.

What is life?
Before living things first emerged, the terrestrial and celestial molecules that were to compose them already existed. For there to be life, these basic building bricks had to be assembled to make a complex unit - called the cell. Cell reproduction, which is subject to luck - making errors, damage and exchanges possible - creates diversity and makes the evolution of living things possible.