The Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen (Natural History Museum) is a museum in Rouen, northern

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

, founded in 1828 by

Félix Archimède Pouchet Félix-Archimède Pouchet (26 August 1800 – 6 December 1872) was a French naturalist and a leading proponent of spontaneous generation of life from non-living materials, and as such an opponent of Louis Pasteur's germ theory. He was the father ...

. Georges Pennetier was the second curator from 1873 to 1923, then Robert Régnier from 1924 to 1965. It has been part of the Réunion des Musées Métropolitains Rouen Normandie since January 1, 2016. After the

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...

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it is the second largest natural history museum in France. It preserves more than 500,000 objects from all over the world.

Bibliography

* Georges Pennetier, « Le Muséum de Rouen en 1900, historique, description, catalogue sommaire », dans ''Actes du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Rouen'', fasc., Rouen, 1900 * Monique Fouray et Michel Lerond, ''Le 150th anniversaire du Muséum de Rouen : Historique, évolution de la muséologie en sciences naturelles'', Centre de documentation du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Rouen, 1978 * Benoît Eliot et Stéphane Rioland, ''Un Carnet de voyages, le muséum de Rouen'', éd. Point de vues, Bonsecours, 2005 ()

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A few photos of pieces in museumTelerama pdf
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