The Cantonal Museum of Zoology in Lausanne has been merged and, as of 1 January 2023, became a department of the
Naturéum, a Swiss museum dedicated to the natural sciences.
The zoological department is located in the
Palais de Rumine,
Lausanne
Lausanne ( , ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of towns in Switzerland, city of the Swiss French-speaking Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud, in Switzerland. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway bet ...
, Switzerland.
History
The museums history dates from 1779, when the "objects" of natural history in the
Académie de Lausanne were indexed by
Daniel-Alexandre Chavannes.
In 1826, Chavannes
vertebrate
Vertebrates () are animals with a vertebral column (backbone or spine), and a cranium, or skull. The vertebral column surrounds and protects the spinal cord, while the cranium protects the brain.
The vertebrates make up the subphylum Vertebra ...
collection was purchased by
L'Etat de Vaud. The museum opened in the Académie de Lausanne in 1833. In 1886, the museum acquired 1,300 specimens bird specimens from Albert Vouga (1829–1896), the author of ''Album Neuchâtelois. Vues historiques et pittoresques'' a book of landscape and natural history photography.
Important collections of later date include the
ant
Ants are Eusociality, eusocial insects of the Family (biology), family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the Taxonomy (biology), order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from Vespoidea, vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cre ...
collection of
Auguste Forel
Auguste-Henri Forel (; 1 September 1848 – 27 July 1931) was a Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and former eugenicist, notable for his investigations into the structure of the human brain and that of ants. He is considered a c ...
and the
insect
Insects (from Latin ') are Hexapoda, hexapod invertebrates of the class (biology), class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (Insect morphology#Head, head, ...
collection of the then Director
Jacques Aubert (1916–1995).
The museum moved to its present location
Palais de Rumine in 1906.
Notes and references
See also
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List of natural history museums
This is a list of natural history museums whose exhibits focus on the subject of natural history, including such topics as animals, plants, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, and climatology.
Some museums feature natural-history collections in a ...
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List of museums in Switzerland
This is a list of museums in Switzerland, sorted by canton and city / municipality. Included are Swiss natural history museums, science museums, transport museums, railway museums, military museums, art museums and ethnographic museums, among ...
External links
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Official website*
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Natural history museums in Switzerland
Museums in Lausanne