The Museum d’Histoire Naturelle Aix en Provence is a

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Aix en Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

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Building

Up to 2014, the museum was accommodated in the Hôtel Boyer d'Eguilles in the city of Aix. For the time being, the collections have been brought to different sites and are not accessible to the public with the exception of pedagogic activities. It is planned to re-open the museum in 2019–2020 in a house in the Saint-Mitre Park.

Collection

The museum contains the collections of: * Louis Charles Joseph Gaston de Saporta(1823–1895) * Casimir de Barrigue, Comte de Montvallon (1774–1845). * Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842) *

Henri Coquand Henri Coquand (1813, in Aix-en-Provence – 1881, in Marseille) was a French geologist and paleontologist. In 1841 he obtained his doctorate in sciences in Paris, and later served as a professor of geology at the University of Besançon, Poitie ...

(1813–1881) * Eugénie Louise Valentine Rostan-d'Abancourt(1848–1903) * Philippe Félix Sextius Aude (1836–1912) * Raymond Paul Dughi (1898–1977) * Ernest Gustave Gobert (1879–1973)

External links

Official Website

References

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