

Due to the measures taken by the government to prevent the spread of Covid-19, the museums, gardens and zoos of the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle remain close, except the Jardin des Plantes (Garden of Plants), open everyday from 8am to 5.30pm.
We will inform you as soon as possible of the reopening procedures.
Palaeontology is the study of life in the past through the fossilised beings and organisms that existed during geological times. The palaeontology group contains between 5 and 6 million specimens and microfossil slides, including 2 million lots of invertebrates and 450,000 vertebrates.
Access to paleontology collections will be suspended from November 2019 to December 2020 to prepare the move of specimens to a new building. Only the paleobotany collection will remain accessible during this period. The collections of fossil invertebrates, micropaleontology and fossil fishes will be accessible at the beginning of May 2020.