Natural History Museum of Le Havre, Le Havre
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10 attractions · 9h 58min · transit route
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About Natural History Museum of Le Havre
The Natural History Museum of Le Havre, founded in 1838 by French naturalist and explorer Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, is housed in an elegant 18th-century neoclassical building that originally served as the city's Palace of Justice. The museum features over 600 objects in its permanent collection spanning paleontology, mineralogy, ethnology, and zoology, including 155-million-year-old dinosaur fossils from nearby Cape de la Hève and nearly one million ethnological artifacts from Africa and Oceania. A highlight is the Lesueur Collection containing 8,000 drawings and manuscripts from his expeditions to Australia and America, including the only known sketches of the extinct King Island emu.
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In 1802, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur created the only known sketches of the King Island emu in its natural habitat during Napoleon's Australian expedition. The species went extinct just 20 years later in 1822, making these drawings held at the museum the sole detailed visual record of this lost bird ever made from life.
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