Musée de la chasse, histoire et nature en Val de Loire

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The château-musée de Gien, houses the museum "Chasse histoire et nature en Val-de-Loire" located in Gien in the French department of Loiret in the region Centre-Val de Loire. It is located in the castle of Gien and has the label museum of France. The museum has successively been named the Museum of Shooting and Falconry and the International Hunting Museum.

Geography: The hunting museum of Gien is located in the castle of Gien, in the French department of Loiret in the Centre-Val de Loire, between Sologne and Puissaye.

History: When the city of Gien was in the midst of reconstruction after the bombings of the Second World War, Pierre-Louis Ducartre, principal inspector of the Musées de France, wished to create a museum dedicated to hunting and to install it in the castle of Gien. The theme of hunting is justified by the location of the city of Gien between the forests of the natural regions of Sologne and Puisaye which are territories where hunting is an ancestral tradition. This new museum was to complement the Senlis Museum, which was inaugurated in 1935 and focused on veneration. The museum of hunting and falconry is...