Museum Requien (and not Musée Requien) is a

natural history museum A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more ...

Avignon Avignon (, ; ; oc, Avinhon, label=Provençal or , ; la, Avenio) is the prefecture of the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France. Located on the left bank of the river Rhône, the commune ha ...

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. Some of

Jean Henri Fabre Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (21 December 1823 – 11 October 1915) was a French naturalist, entomologist, and author known for the lively style of his popular books on the lives of insects. Biography Fabre was born on 21 December 1823 in Saint-L ...

's work is displayed here. Muséum Requien is named in honor of French naturalist

Esprit Requien Esprit Requien (6 May 1788, Avignon – 30 May 1851, Bonifacio, Corse-du-Sud) was a French naturalist, who made contributions in the fields of conchology, paleontology and especially botany. From the age of 18, he was associated with the bota ...

(6 May 1788, Avignon – 30 May 1851, Bonifacio,

Corse-du-Sud Corse-du-Sud (; co, link=no, Corsica suttana , or ; en, Southern Corsica) is (as of 2019) an administrative department of France, consisting of the southern part of the island of Corsica. The corresponding departmental territorial collec ...

History

The Muséum Requien was founded by

in 1840 as a cabinet of curiosities. Esprit Requien, botanist, paleontologist, malacologist and naturalist from Avignon, was born on May 6, 1788 in a very modest residence, near the rue des Lices in Avignon. He died on May 30, 1851 in Bonifacio. He became administrator of the

Calvet museum The Calvet Museum (''musée Calvet'') is the main museum in Avignon. Since the 1980s the collection has been split between two buildings, with the fine arts housed in an 18th-century hôtel particulier and a separate Lapidary Museum in the former ...

in 1849. An enlightened collector, he had already bequeathed his funds nine years earlier. The collections are then regularly supplemented by local researchers and scientists, in particular by

Jean-Henri Fabre Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (21 December 1823 – 11 October 1915) was a French naturalist, entomologist, and author known for the lively style of his popular books on the lives of insects. Biography Fabre was born on 21 December 1823 in Saint-L ...

. The museum moved into the Raphélis de Soissans hotel in 1943, on three levels.

Museum activities

The most visible activity is the museum itself, retracing the fauna and flora of Vaucluse since prehistoric times. At the same time, research activity is maintained, at national and European level, in particular by consulting the 18,000 books in the Esprit Requien library.

References

External links

Museum Requien Official Site

Site via Fondation Calvet
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