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The Natural History Museum of Geneva (in French: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève) is a natural history museum in Geneva, Switzerland.

Louis Jurine’s collections of Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hemiptera are held by the museum.

Other displays include a collection of intricate glass models of invertebrates by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka and a living specimen of a two headed tortoise named Janus. The tortoise is considered the mascot of the museum^[1] and is one of their main attractions.^[2]

Notable people who worked for the museum

• Aloïs Humbert, naturalist and paleontologist, curator since 1852
• Auguste Louis Brot, malacologist, curator and researcher (1855-1896)
• Emil Frey-Gessner, entomologist, conservator of the entomological collections from 1872
• Émile Dottrens, scientific assistant for zoology
• François Jules Pictet de la Rive, curator of paleontological collections
• Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, member of the managing committee
• Jules Favre, curator (1915-1952)
• Perceval de Loriol, paleontologist and stratigraphist, associated with the museum for over 40 years
• Peter J. Schwendinger, curator
• Pierre Revilliod, curator and researcher

Collections of a number of prominent scientists are held in the museum.

References

• Aellen, W., 1970. 150 ans du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Genève. A. Kundig Genève.
• Sigrist, R., 1990. Les origines de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle (1790–1822). La science genevoise face au modèle français, Genève. Mémoires de la SPHN, 45/1.
• Sigrist, R., 1995. Les origines du Muséum d'histoire naturelle: 1794–1820. Revue des Musées de Genève. (No spécial: Le Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève : 175 ans), 335, juin: 2–6.

External links

• Official website