Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille

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The Musée d'Histoire naturel de Lille is a French natural history museum located in rue de Bruxelles, in the historical university district of Lille. Inaugurated in 1822 in the former Hôtel de Ville de Lille, it has been installed in rue de Bruxelles since 1896. First built around a first zoological collection, at the beginning of the 20th century it combined a double set of geological collections, then in 1990 two new fonds (d-ethnography and industrial history) which now comprise four major themes: naturalist, geological, ethnographic and industrial objects.

The four major collections of the museum: These are:

The zoological collection (about 210,000 specimens including 3,539 birds exposed); Geological collection (approximately 200,000 samples); The ethnographic collection, essentially extra-European, which includes 15,000 samples, including 5,360 outstanding ancient objects bearing witness to oceanic, African, Asian and Amerindian civilizations. Most come from, but there are also objects from Charles Phalempin (for Melanesia) or General Faidherbe (for Africa). The rest...