Galerie de Paléontologie et d'Anatomie comparée

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The gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, at the plural galleries of Comparative Anatomy and Paleontology, is one of the galleries of the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN). The galleries of the Museum are buildings that each constitute a museum labeled "Musée de France", specialized in a specific field of natural history. The gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy is located in the east of the Jardin des Plantes de Paris, at the beginning of the rue Buffon, on the side of the train station of Austerlitz, near the Place Valhubert.

The building was designed in 1892 by architect Ferdinand Dutert and was built between 1893 and 1898. It extends over a ground floor and two floors and has an area of approximately 2,500 m2. The gallery of comparative Anatomy occupies the ground floor and the gallery of Paleontology the two floors: the fossil vertebrates are on the first floor and the invertebrates and fossil plants are on the second, constituting a mezzanine.