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The Paris Natural History Museum

A heritage of the Paris Royal Medicinal Plant Garden created in 1635, the Paris Natural History Museum displays its unique collections in the beautiful Plant Garden buildings in Paris.

Its main attractions are the spectacularly renovated Great Hall of Evolution (right) devoted to the evolution of life, the gallery of paleontology (below right) with a fine collection of dinosaurs, giant birds and insects, the gallery of mineralogy with over 600 000 mineral samples including unique giant cristals and royal precious stones.

 

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The evolution gallery

natural history museum
The Paris Natural History museum

The Paris Natural History Museum is both fascinating for adults and impressive for children.

In addition to the museum, lots of flowers  and a nice little zoo, the Plant Garden also features a tropical glasshouse and a mexican glasshouse.

Precious and hot addresses when the wind is freezing outside.

Other great Paris museums

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
57, rue Cuvier 75005 Paris
tel: 33 (0)1 40 79 30 00

natural history museum
Gare d'Austerlitz station on lines 5, 10 and RER C

Closed on Tuesdays and 1st of May
Open 10am to 6pm
Web site


The gallery of paleontology

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