Bordeaux Natural History Museum


Bordeaux is a port city that is in the southwest of France and where you can find many places of interest, especially worth all the cultural offer that it has thanks to its many museums and attractions for culture lovers. A city that you can visit at any time of the year since it is not characterized by being better in winter or summer, any time is perfect to take a walk through its streets.

One of the best places to visit in Bordeaux is the Museum of Natural History, one of the oldest of its kind in the country since it was inaugurated in 1811. It is in a spectacular private mansion next to Le Jardin PublicSo you can spend the whole day in both places and enjoy the best of the city. In this museum there is a large collection of animals that come from all corners of the world.


Among the species it houses there are many that are in Danger of extinction and that they belong to the families of mammals, reptiles, fish, birds, crustaceans, insects or molluscs. A large part of the museum is dedicated to local fauna to learn about the most outstanding species in the area, and it also has another dedicated to paleontology that has an impressive collection of fossils of various types.

This Museum is also a center where many researchers They carry out studies, and there is a store where you can get copies of several of the publications that the museum has been publishing in its history on various topics and not only on Natural History.

The Bordeaux Natural History Museum is, together with those of London and Wahsington, the most important in its field thanks to the fact that it conserves, restores, manages and exhibits all kinds of document collections and not only animal species. Among its collections of objects there are many of paleontology, mineralogy, geology, prehistory, ethnobiology, chemistry or anthropology. In total it is estimated that there are more than 60 million of copies.

T-Rex Natural History Museum London (March 2024)


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