Museum d'Histoire Naturelle
Museum d'Histoire Naturelle stands in Nice as a natural history museum founded in 1846 by Jean Baptiste Vérany and Jean-Baptiste Barla. Its collections bring together more than one million zoological, botanical, and geological specimens, mainly from the Mediterranean region.
The permanent exhibition, Par monts et par vaux, biodiversité des Alpes-Maritimes, occupies an early twentieth-century part of the building. It follows the biodiversity of the Alpes-Maritimes through wolves, deer, wild boar, chamois, raptors, waders, songbirds, reptiles, and insects. Specimens from Africa, the Indian Ocean, and South America widen the view beyond the Côte d’Azur, while rocks and other geological material connect living species with the earth’s history.
Jean Baptiste Vérany studied cephalopods, and Jean-Baptiste Barla worked as a botanist, giving the collections a strong naturalist foundation. Temporary exhibitions also appear at places such as Parc Phœnix, the Louis-Nucéra library, and the Maison de la nature in Grande Corniche departmental park.
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