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Hotel near National Museum of Natural History
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Hôtel Bellevue
L’Hôtel Bellevue, un hôtel de 3 étoiles entièrement rénové en 2003, est bien situé au pied du Sacré Cœur dans le quartier Montmartre, avec ses cafés et restaurants pleins d’ambiance et d’atmosphère dans les environs immédiats. On a accès direct à tous les divertissements touristiques en partant du métro Anvers, qui n’est qu’à deux arrêts de la Gare du Nord, et pas loin de l’Etoile (Champs-Elysées) et Opéra.
National Museum of Natural History
36 Rue Geoffroy Saint Hilaire - 75005 Paris
The National Museum of Natural History is divided into different important galleries:
- The Great Hall of Evolution, devoted to the evolution of life, with 3 themes: the diversity of the living world today; how living organisms have developed throughout the history of life on earth; how human activity has affected the environment, sometimes irreversibly, and how Man became a factor in evolution. One of the rooms presents a magnificent collection of specimens of endangered species - plus some which are already extinct.
- The Mineralogy and Palaeobotany Galleries, which contains over 600000 mineral samples, including a collection of giant crystals unique in the world and a magnificent collection of precious stones presented in the Treasure Room. The Palaeobotany Gallery retraces the history of the vegetable world since its beginning on Earth.
- The comparative Anatomy and Palaeontology Galleries (2 Rue Buffon - 75005 Paris), which gives a comprehensive view of the world of vertebrates, with an impressive collection of nearly a thousand skeletons. The Gallery of Palaeontology offers the public an exceptionally fine collection of fossils, dinosaurs, mastodons, shells, giant birds and insects etc…
- The Great Glasshouses (57 Rue Cuvier 75005 Paris) : The Jardin des Plantes has two extremely impressive glasshouses - the tropical hothouse with its hot, humid atmosphere, containing banana trees, ficus and the Mexican hothouse, with plants such as the American cactus and plants found only in Madagascar.
- The Gallery of Entomology (45 Rue Buffon - 75005 Paris), which features 1500 specimens, chosen amongst the world's most beautiful or most astonishing insects.
- The Menagerie (3, quai St Bernard 75005 Paris), which is one of the oldest zoological gardens in the world, with 240 mammals, 500 birds and 130 reptiles in a 5.5 ha. park.
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