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Museum of Natural History in Paris
One of the first French museums, it becomes an essential point of the excursion program in Paris every curious traveler. It was founded in the XVII century, and since then millions of exhibits provide food for thought and the student, and student and scholar, and just everyone who is not indifferent to their own roots. More than 1,800 employees of the Museum of Natural History in Paris perfectly know their business, because almost a third of them - the researchers with various academic degrees.
From "A" to "Z"
The exposition of the Museum of Natural History in Paris is a half dozen organizations located not only in the French capital, but also in other cities of the country:
Capital Garden plants first appeared on a map of Paris holiday destinations in 1794. But his story began sixty years ago, when the court of Louis XIII doctors began to grow in the V arrondissement medicinal plants for the needs of the royal pharmacy. Garden area of 23.5 hectares, and it is here almost half a century lived famous turtle Kiki.
Vincennes Zoo - least popular part of the Natural History Museum in Paris. Its opening was timed to the Colonial Exhibition in 1931 and since then tens of thousands of visitors each year admire views of wild animals, the conditions of which are as close to natural.
At the end of the 30s of the last century and the first visitors took the Museum of Man in Paris. The basis of his first exposure amounted rarities from the "Cabinet of curiosities" XVI century.
A popular part of the Natural History Museum of Paris - Large gallery of evolution, illustrating the diversity of nature and the course of its development. Three floors of the museum are a variety of flora and fauna of the planet and the human impact on the natural environment.
Mineralogical gallery shows visitors one of the oldest collections of stones in the world, with some of the 600 thousand exhibits are truly unique.
Paleontologists and want them to become a lot of interesting find in the relevant department of the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Skeletons of almost all currently existing vertebrate collected during scientific expeditions of famous historical XVIII-XIX centuries, form the basis of the exhibition.
Useful things
All the exhibition halls of the Museum of Natural History in Paris are closed on Tuesdays and May 1, and a precise timetable for their work, depending on season and day of the week, it is better to clarify at the museum or at travel agencies.