Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Perpignan

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The Natural History Museum of Perpignan is a French natural history museum located in a private hotel called Hotel Çagarriga, in Perpignan, in the Pyrénées-Orientales. The core of the collections comes from the cabinet of curiosities created by the University of Perpignan in 1770. In 1835, the newly created Perpignan Philomatic Society recovered the old collections of the Cabinet with the aim of creating a Natural History Cabinet that also included the Society's collections.

By convention, the city of Perpignan purchased the collections on August 4, 1840 and founded the museum of natural history. Located in the former University, he was transferred in 1900 to the private hotel purchased from Raymond His collections consist of specimens of archaeology, zoology, mineralogy and ethnology as well as an Egyptian mummy offered in 1847 by Ibrahim Pasha after a thermal cure in Vernet-les-Bains. A documentation centre maintains more than 800 specialized books and journals, available by appointment.