Border

At the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie (Paris), from April 14, 2026 to January 2, 2028

Border

A Word from the Geographers

Since the end of the Second World War, and even more so since the end of the Cold War, borders between states have multiplied. Never natural, they result from political decisions and balances of power. Borders are discontinuities crossed by flows of human beings, goods, capital and data. Sometimes sorting machines, sometimes places of opportunity, they have their own dynamics and extend all the way into cyberspace.

The Border exhibition aims to question this concept, giving pride of place to geography as a discipline and to its privileged tool: cartography.

Geography: another way of talking about people

Geography enables an understanding of societies in their spatial dimension. Through this exhibition, the public discovers the multiplicity of situations: open, closed or porous borders; borders as places of opportunity or conflict, borders that separate, protect and sort. They are lines, but also thicknesses, points, and even networks.

Here, the exhibition focuses on the subject of borders by selecting around a dozen examples from around the world, some chosen for their emblematic nature, others on the contrary for their singular or intriguing character, or for the light they shed on a major issue.