All our loves

I love you a little… a lot… passionately… madly!

Love is everywhere around us, among other animal species too, and comes in many different forms. From strong attachment to our teddy bear to our greatest friendships, from our brief encounters to our amorous passions, from the love we bear for our children to the love…we have for ourselves.

All of them forms of love that the exhibition explores, highlighting their biological phenomena, cultural codes and the social questions they give rise to. Thanks to joyful scenography accessible to one and all, the Museum invites us to let our hearts beat faster and speak of our emotions. And, we hope, to our loved ones!

Exhibition designed and mounted by the Palais de la Découverte, adapted by the

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The exhibition route

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Our first loves

It’s during the first two years of a child’s life that mechanisms of attachment with those around them primary caregivers come into play and continue to evolve. So parents are a child’s first attachment figures.

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Love for everyone

Here, it’s a question of self-esteem and empathy. The first is a manifestation of one’s interest in oneself while the second is the capacity to understand and share other people’s emotions.

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The body makes itself felt

Racing heart, sweaty palms, butterflies in the belly… All the symptoms of stress and yet… it’s budding love. Love expresses itself in the body, but the brain is where it all starts.

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Story trees

Stories take us from one continent to the next, in discovery of other ways of loving. They express love’s cultural uniqueness and universality alike.

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To our desires

Human sexuality is learned. Each individual develops their sexuality on the basis of information gleaned here and there, via other people’s sexuality, erotic and pornographic productions, etc.

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An ode to love

Romantic encounters, whether sudden or gradual, manifest themselves in a variety of ways: words and deeds, seductive behaviours and reciprocal trusting relationships, as well as in moments of shared intimacy, at a dance, a film or a meal.

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Loving like a fish

According to psychologists, the cognitive skills required to determine the existence of feelings of love have not been demonstrated in other species apart from primates, which is why it’s preferable to use the term attachment. We should also be wary of attributing emotions to other species on the sole basis of behavioural equivalences with the human race. Nonetheless, major resemblances can be observed.

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Staying connected

We’re social beings and interactions with our fellows are essential. The range of emotional ties that structure our lives forms the basis of our wellbeing. But staying in contact with our nearest and dearest isn’t always easy. New ties Disconcerting as they may be, artificial intelligences and other robotic forms have become part of our everyday lives and attachments of greater or lesser strength can be created with them. These “new ties” sometimes generate social isolation or, on the contrary, facilitate interactions between individuals by acting as mediators.

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New ties

Disconcerting as they may be, artificial intelligences and other robotic forms have become part of our everyday lives and attachments of greater or lesser strength can be created with them. These “new ties” sometimes generate social isolation or, on the contrary, facilitate interactions between individuals by acting as mediators.

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From 21.10.23 to 31.12.23