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curiosities, often belonging to enlightened amateurs and made up of a variety of heterogeneous items such as antiquities, fossils, herbariums, naturalised animals and even old medals. In addition to its conservation activities, the college also offered courses in anatomy, botany and surgery. The collections, consisting of herbariums, minerals, fossils and representatives of various vertebrate taxa, were used for teaching purposes.
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museum's collections were spread out over multiple sites in the city: geology, mineralogy, and palaeontology collections left the
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was expanding rapidly and moved into the Palais de l'Université on Place Carnot in the early 1860s. The natural history collections, comprising mineralogy and geology from
Lorraine, comparative anatomy, anthropology, zoology and herbariums, occupied three rooms and were regularly open to the general
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The Lucien Cuénot amphitheatre, created in 1933 and renovated in 2013, hosts a wide range of events, mainly related to scientific and technical culture. The access to the 210-seat amphitheatre is via rue Godron. It is accessible to people with reduced mobility as well as to hearing-impaired people
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It is thanks to the action of Lucien Cuénot, director of the natural history cabinet in 1898, that the museum acquired its present form. Indeed, under his tenure, the museum's collections grew so much that it became necessary to move them. At the beginning of the 20th century, the natural history
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The natural history collections contain around 18,000 naturalised specimens out of a total of 140,000 specimens, 600 of which are currently on display. The collections contain a great variety of specimens: mammals, insects, ethnology collections, osteology, naturalized animals, and dry or fluid
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Leszczynski, Duke of Lorraine, created a Royal College of Medicine by bringing together former private regional collections. These first collections of Nancy's natural history cabinet, from which the Muséum-Aquarium was created, came from the assembly of seventeen cabinets of
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Centrale de la Meurthe was created and moved, along with the natural history collections, to the building that currently hosts the Nancy municipal library. Six years later, in 1804, the Écoles Centrales were replaced by lycées, and natural science teaching was abandoned. The
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A new zoology gallery was opened in 2005. Designed around Lucien Cuénot's family tree, the gallery presents the classification of living things. A selection of nearly 600 animals has been carefully restored and installed to showcase the world's zoological diversity.
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In 2011 and 2012, the aquarium galleries will be modernized and some of the museum's heritage collections will be added to the aquarium gallery space to make the link between living and natural history more visible.
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In 2004, the Muséum-Aquarium obtained the label Musée de France, a national designation that guarantees greater protection for the museum's collections, which are legally imprescriptible and inalienable.
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