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Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, Europe

Musée de l'Homme
Museum of Man

Museum or Collection Type:
General
Institutional Type:
Museum

Subject:
Anthropology, Archaeology, Ethnography, Ethnology, History, Natural History, Palaeontology, Photography, Prehistory

Address:
Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle - Palais de Chaillot, 17, place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris

Opening Hours:
Open: 9.45 a.m.-5.15 p.m.
Closed: Tuesday, bank holidays.

Contact:
Phone: +33(0)144 05 72 00/44 05 72 72

Links:
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Description:
The Musée de l'Homme - the Museum of Man - is one of the world's most important museums devoted to anthropology, ethnology, and prehistory. Its collections are arranged - by in large - according to geographical region, and includes the Inca mummy (in fetal position).

Collections include: Archeology, Ethnography, History, Photography, Sciences, Sculpture, Textile, Fossils, Stones, Ethnographic objects.