Musée d'histoire naturelle et d'ethnographie de Colmar

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The Colmar Museum of Natural History and Ethnography is a museum of natural history and ethnography, located in Colmar (High Rhine). It was founded by the Society of Natural History and Ethnography of this city.

Presentation: It is located at 11 rue de Turenne in Colmar, in the building of the former Turenne school. It enjoys a second entrance to the Poissonnery. It is managed by the Colmar Society of Natural History and Ethnography, one of the oldest colmarian associations. Since 2003, the museum has had the label "Musée de France".

The Colmar Natural History Society (SHNC) was officially founded on 22 May 1859 by prominent and colmarian scientists, including industrial and physicist Adolphe Hirn, doctors Gustave Bleicher and Charles Faudel, sculptors Auguste Bartholdi and André Waltz, Hansi's father. As early as 1860, and in order to meet its objectives, the SHNC founded its museum, where its collections of zoology, geology and ethnography are exhibited, in several rooms of the Unterlinden convent. Until 1939, they lived there with the Schongauer Society's collections of art and archaeology...