Musées Paléontologie en France

Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle

The National Museum of Natural History is a research and knowledge transmission institution dedicated to natural history and human sciences. Located in Paris, it manages a vast net…

57 Rue Cuvier

Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée

The Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris within the National Museum of Natural History, is a scientific and heritage institut…

2 Rue Buffon

Musée des Dinosaures

The Museum of Dinosaurs is a scientific institution located in Mèze, in Hérault, in the Occitanie region. It is distinguished by its open-air operation and its integration into a n…

Rte de Pézenas

Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle

The Natural History Museum of Nantes is a research and conservation institution. Its collections cover several fields: zoology, earth and space sciences, botany, ethnology, and his…

12 Rue Voltaire

Paléospace

Paléospace is a paleontological museum located in Villers-sur-Mer, in Calvados, in Normandy. It is established on a site of geological importance, that of the Falaises des Vaches N…

5 Av. Jean Moulin

Musée de la préhistoire des gorges du Verdon

The departmental prehistory museum is located in Quinson, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in the heart of the Verdon Gorges. Established in a rural area, it is a heritage facility…

Rte de Montmeyan

Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Marseille

Founded in 1819, the Marseille Natural History Museum is located in the right wing of the Palais Longchamp. It presents collections of natural curiosities and heritage items, refle…

Palais Longchamp, Rue Espérandieu

Muséum de l'Ardèche

The Ardèche Museum, located in Balazuc, is a natural history museum dedicated to fossils and prehistory. It presents a collection of fossils from the Ardèche territory, covering a…

344 Chemin de Cournazou

Galerie de Géologie et de Minéralogie

The Geology and Mineralogy Gallery, located in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, is a scientific natural history museum specializing in the study of minerals, rocks, and meteorites.…

36 Rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire

Musée des Dinosaures d'Espéraza

The Dinosaur Museum of Espéraza, located in Aude in Occitanie, is an establishment dedicated to natural history and paleontology. It offers a permanent exhibition centered on dinos…

3 Pl. Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny

Musée de Préhistoire - Vallée des Grottes de Saulges

The Museum of Prehistory of the Saulges Caves Valley, located in Thorigné-en-Charnie in Mayenne, offers an immersion into Prehistory through the visit of two caves and a dedicated…

650 La Roche Brault

Musée Crozatier

The Crozatier Museum is located in Le Puy-en-Velay in Haute-Loire. Its collections cover archaeology, fine arts, Egyptology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology, organized around…

2 Rue Antoine Martin

MOBE - Muséum d'Orléans pour la Biodiversité et l'Environnement

The Orléans Museum for Biodiversity and the Environment (MOBE) is a scientific culture institution dedicated to natural heritage and understanding biodiversity. It preserves more t…

6 Rue Marcel Proust

Musée Promenade de Haute-Provence

The Promenade Museum, located in Digne-les-Bains in Occitania, is home to the UNESCO Global Geopark of Haute-Provence. As an interpretation space for territorial heritage, it offer…

Mntée Bernard Della Casagrande, 10 Av. Saint-Benoît BP 30156

Musée de Préhistoire du Grand-Pressigny

The Museum of Prehistory of Grand-Pressigny is a departmental museum located in Indre-et-Loire, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It is situated in a rural area and is dedicated t…

Rue des Remparts

La Cave aux Coquillages

The Shell Cave is a paleontology museum located in Fleury-la-Rivière, in Marne. The site presents a collection of marine fossils from the Paris Basin, dating back approximately 45…

41 Rue du Bourg de Vesle

Musée de Préhistoire d'Île-de-France

The Museum of Prehistory of Île-de-France, established in Nemours in Seine-et-Marne, is a departmental museum. It presents the major periods of Prehistory and Protohistory in Île-d…

48 Av. Etienne Dailly

Musée de préhistoire de Solutré

The Solutré Prehistory Department Museum is a site museum located in a rural area in the commune of Solutré-Pouilly, in Saône-et-Loire, within the Grand Site de France Solutré Poui…

Chem. de la Roche

Préhistorama

Prehistorama is a museum dedicated to the history of life on Earth, from the first cells to Homo sapiens. Located in Rousson in the Gard, it presents a collection of over 1,500 pie…

75 Chem. de Panissière

Musée Fossilea

Fossilea is a museum dedicated to geoheritage and the geological history of the Beaujolais region, located in Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in the Rhône. The museum invites visitors to exp…

116 Chem. du Pinay

Cité de la Préhistoire

The Prehistoric City is an archaeological museum located in Orgnac-l'Aven, in Ardèche. Integrated into the Grand Site of France of Aven d'Orgnac, this museum in a rural setting off…

2240 Route de, L'Aven

Muséum d'histoire naturelle d'Autun

The Autun Museum of Natural History is a public institution dedicated to natural sciences, located in Saône-et-Loire in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. Recognized under the Her…

Imp. Rollet

Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Savoie à Chambéry

The Museum of Natural History in Chambéry, managed by the Society of Natural History of Savoy, has been housed in the royal castle of Chambéry since 1851. Its collections comprise…

208 Av. de Lyon

Musée de Paléontologie Christian Guth

The Chilhac paleontology museum is a scientific establishment located in a rural setting in the village of Chilhac, in Haute-Loire. It holds an official label. The museum displays…

Place de l'église

Musée minéraux et fossiles de Saint Pé de Bigorre

The Minerals and Fossils Museum of Saint-Pé-de-Bigorre, presented under the commercial name "La Pé-pite de Big'Or", is dedicated to mineralogy and paleontology. Open since July 202…

1 Av. Sanche de Gascogne

Musée des minéraux, roches et fossiles des Ardennes

Founded in 1990 by the Mineralogical and Paleontological Association of Bogny-sur-Meuse, this museum is dedicated to geology and Earth sciences. It features ten exhibition rooms gr…

32 Rue Maurice Louis

Ancienne Mine de Saint Pierre La Palud

The Museum of Mining and Mineralogy of Saint-Pierre-la-Palud, located in the Rhône region, documents the history of local mining operations, particularly iron pyrite extraction fro…

Chem. du Puit Perret

Musée paléoécologique de Cerin

The Paleoecological Museum of Cerin-Marchamp, located in Ain, is Europe's first paleoecological museum. It presents the results of world-renowned excavations featuring fossils of e…

200 Rue Principale

Planetarium Villers Sur Mer

Paléospace is a paleontological museum located in Villers-sur-Mer, in Calvados, in a rural coastal setting. The site revolves around three main areas: paleontology, astronomy, and…

Av. Jean Moulin

Musée du Savignéen

The Savignéen Museum is a museum in a rural area located in Savigné-sur-Lathan, in Indre-et-Loire. The museum offers an exploration of the "Sea of Faluns," a marine environment dat…

10 Rue Fbg de la Rue

Musée de la Préhistoire

The Museum of Prehistory is an establishment located in Rânes, in Ariège, in the Occitanie region. Recognized as such under the Heritage Code, it falls into the category of museums…

le château

Musée de Paléontologie et d'Archéologie de Vachères

The Museum of Paleontology and Archaeology of Vachères is an institution located in the village of Vachères, in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region. I…

Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Puisaye (SHNY)

The Natural History Museum of Puisaye, located in Charny Orée de Puisaye in the Yonne, is run by the Natural History Society of the Yonne (SHNY), an association created in 2016. Th…

466 route d'Auxerre

Musée de Collobrières

The Collobrières Museum is a scientific establishment devoted to geology, mineralogy and paleontology, located in the Var in Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur. Managed by the Association…

2 Rue Jean Jaurès

Musée de Semur-en-Auxois

The municipal museum of Semur-en-Auxois, established in Côte-d'Or in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, is. It brings together varied collections organized by discipline: gallery of original…

3 Rue Jean Jacques Collenot

Musée municipal Gautron du Coudray

The Gautron du Coudray Municipal Museum is located in Marzy, in Nièvre, in an 18th-century building that has occupied the former presbytery opposite the Saint-André church since 19…

22 Pl. de l'Église

Musée Victor Aubert

The Victor Aubert Museum is a site museum located in Maule, in Yvelines, in the Île-de-France region. Labeled, it is dedicated to several thematic areas: paleontology, prehistory,…

24 Rue Quincampoix

Préhistorama

Préhistorama is a museum dedicated to prehistory, located in the former railway station of Châtelperron in Allier. The site offers a presentation of the living conditions of the me…

5 Rte de St Léon

Musée sundgauvien

The Sundgau Museum, established in Altkirch in the Upper Rhine, has occupied since 1952 a 16th-century Renaissance building that formerly served as the residence of the Bailiff of…

1 Rue de L Hôtel de ville, 68130 Altkirch, France

Musée Henri Dupuis

The Henri Dupuis Museum is located in Saint-Omer, in the Pas-de-Calais, within a former eighteenth-century residence. Labeled "Musée de France" since 2003, it houses multidisciplin…

9 Rue Henri Dupuis, 62500 Saint-Omer, France

Musée de préhistoire Miln-le-Rouzic

The Miln-le-Rouzic Museum of Prehistory, located in Carnac in Morbihan, is a museum in a rural setting. It presents one of Europe's richest prehistoric collections, covering a peri…

Place Christian Bonnet anciennement, 10 Pl. de la Chapelle, 56340 Carnac, France

Musée de préhistoire

The Tautavel Prehistory Museum is a site museum located in a rural area in the Eastern Pyrenees. Created in 1978 and restructured in 1992, it operates as an integrated scientific c…

Av. Léon Jean Grégory, 66720 Tautavel, France

Muséum d'histoire naturelle et de préhistoire

The Museum of Natural History and Prehistory of Nîmes, inaugurated in 1895, is ranked 6th nationally for the richness of its collections. It preserves more than 700,000 specimens c…

13 Bd Amiral Courbet, 30000 Nîmes, France

Musée de préhistoire

The Regional Prehistory Museum, located in Saint-Pons-de-Thomières in Hérault, is dedicated to the prehistory of Languedoc. Its collections present Neolithic artifacts discovered a…

8 Grand Rue, 34220 Saint-Pons-de-Thomières, France

Musée de Paléontologie - Aix-Marseille Université

The Paleontology Museum of Aix-Marseille University is an establishment dedicated to the presentation and study of fossils and the history of ancient life. Associated with the univ…

3 Pl. Victor Hugo

Musée de paléontologie de Terra Amata

A site museum located in Nice, the Terra Amata Museum of Prehistory is built on the paleolithic excavation site of the same name, discovered during digs that unearthed remains dati…

25 Bd Carnot, 06000 Nice, France

Musée de l'Aurignacien : la préhistoire en Haute-Garonne

The Aurignacian Museum is a site museum located in Haute-Garonne, in the municipality of Aurignac, in a rural area. It is dedicated to prehistory and is organized around a local pr…

Av. Benabarre, 31420 Aurignac, France

Musée de préhistoire régionale

The Menton Museum of Regional Prehistory presents evidence of European prehistory, from its origins to the Iron Age. Founded in 1878 from the private natural history collection of…

Rue Lorédan Larchey, 06500 Menton, France

Musée de la Préhistoire Raymond Touchard

The Raymond Touchard Museum of Prehistory, located in Lussac-les-Châteaux in Vienne, is a museum dedicated to Prehistory. The permanent exhibition traces the life of the peoples of…

21 Rte de Montmorillon, 86320 Lussac-les-Châteaux, France

Musée des tumulus

The Bougon Tumuli Museum is an archaeological site museum located in a rural area in Deux-Sèvres, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It holds the label. The museum offers an approach combining…

La Chapelle de, 79800 Bougon, France