The Harmas de Fabre, also known as the Musée Harmas Jean-Henri Fabre, is a museum,

botanical garden A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, an ...

, and

herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...

located on the Route d'Orange,

Sérignan-du-Comtat Sérignan-du-Comtat (; oc, Serinhan dau Comtat) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. The entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre (1823–1915) died in Sérignan-du-Comtat. Points of in ...

Vaucluse Vaucluse (; oc, Vauclusa, label= Provençal or ) is a department in the southeastern French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It had a population of 561,469 as of 2019.Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (; or , ; commonly shortened to PACA; en, Provence-Alps-French Riviera, italic=yes; also branded as Région Sud) is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France, the far southeastern on the mainland. Its pref ...

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. It is open daily except Wednesday in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The museum contains the house and the garden of naturalist and entomologist

Jean Henri Fabre Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (21 December 1823 – 11 October 1915) was a French naturalist, entomologist, and author known for the lively style of his popular books on the lives of insects. Biography Fabre was born on 21 December 1823 in Saint-L� ...

(1823-1915) who moved into this house in 1879, after which he devoted the rest of his life to the study of

insect Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body ( head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs ...

s and

flora Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms '' gut flora'' or '' skin flora''. E ...

. The word ''harmas'' means "fallow ground" in Provençal. In 1922 the ''Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle'' acquired the site, and in 1955 nearly 700

watercolor Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

s, hand painted by Fabre, were found in attics of Harmas by his grandson. In 1998 the site was classified as a ''monument historique''; restored by the Ministry of Culture and Communication, it opened to the public in 2006. Today the museum contains Fabre's collections of

fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...

mineral In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid chemical compound with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.John P. Rafferty, ed. ( ...

s, 594

s of

mushroom A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source. ''Toadstool'' generally denotes one poisonous to humans. The standard for the name "mushroom" is t ...

s, manuscripts, a private

of more than 20,000 specimens including plants harvested by Fabre during his stay in

Corsica Corsica ( , Upper , Southern ; it, Corsica; ; french: Corse ; lij, Còrsega; sc, Còssiga) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of ...

(1849-1852), and the small table on which his manuscripts were written, most notably the ''Souvenirs Entomologiques''. The gardens contain 20 historic trees and over 500 plant

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

, as well as trails and a pool, and a small cold

greenhouse A greenhouse (also called a glasshouse, or, if with sufficient heating, a hothouse) is a structure with walls and roof made chiefly of Transparent ceramics, transparent material, such as glass, in which plants requiring regulated climatic condit ...

built in 1880.

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Harmas de Fabre

* ttp://www.gralon.net/tourisme/loisirs-culturels/info-musee-harmas-jean-henri-fabre-serignan-du-comtat-5742.htm Gralon entry (French)
Harmas de Jean Henri Fabre - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle - Sérignan-du-Comtat (French)
* French Wikipedia entry ''Harmas de Jean-Henri Fabre'' {{Coord, 44, 11, 15, N, 4, 50, 26, E, type:landmark_region:FR, display=title

Harmas de Fabre The Harmas de Fabre, also known as the Musée Harmas Jean-Henri Fabre, is a museum, botanical garden, and herbarium located on the Route d'Orange, Sérignan-du-Comtat, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. It is open daily except Wednes ...

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