Published on 2 September 2025
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Visit the Lévi-Strauss library

View of the Claude Lévi-Strauss library reading room at the Institute of Civilizations - collège de France.

To celebrate the Fête de la Science 2025, take part in the competition organized by the CNRS to win a place on one of the unusual tours of its research laboratories ! On October 9 2025, try your luck at a visit to the Claude Lévi-Strauss Library at the Collège de France, which is usually closed to the public, but which is now opening its doors to the public for an evening of ethnology.

In Paris, the Claude Lévi-Strauss Library at the Collège de France, part of the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale (UMR 7130 CNRS/Collège de France/EHESS/EPHE), has prepared a trail for you to follow in the footsteps of ethnologists on their field missions. The Claude Lévi-Strauss Library is located at the heart of the Institute of Civilizations of the Collège de France, rue du Cardinal-Lemoine in the fifth arrondissement .

For your chance to win a place on this unusual tour, take part in the competition, open to everyone aged 15 and over, from Monday August 25 to Wednesday September 17 2025, by answering three scientific questions accessible to as many people as possible. Places will be allocated randomly among those who answer correctly, to form a group of no more than twelve people.