Musee Vert

About

The Musée Vert is the natural history museum of the city of Le Mans. It opened its doors to the public in June 1995. This establishment with its scientific vocation, is inspected by the Ministry for Research, and received the Musée de France label in 2002. The Musée Vert preserves nearly 300,000 specimens in its collections, accumulated by generations of collectors and naturalists from the Sarthe since the opening of the first museum of Le Mans in 1799. It consists, in particular, of naturalised birds and mammals, collections of insects, shells and plants, as well as fossils, minerals and rocks.