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Grande Galerie de l'Evolution

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  • 5e arrondissement
  • price 2 of 4
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Grande Galerie de l'Evolution
Oliver Knight / Time OutGrande Galerie de l'Evolution
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Time Out says

One of the city's most child-friendly attractions, this is guaranteed to bowl adults over too. Located within the Jardin des Plantes, this beauty of a 19th-century iron-framed, glass-roofed structure has been modernised with lifts, galleries and false floors, and filled with life-size models of tentacle-waving squids, open-mawed sharks, tigers hanging off elephants and monkeys swarming down from the ceiling. The centrepiece is a procession of African wildlife across the first floor that resembles the procession into Noah's Ark. Glass-sided lifts take you up through suspended birds to the second floor, which deals with man's impact on nature and rewiring of evolution (crocodile into handbag).

The third floor focuses on endangered and extinct species. The separate Galerie d'Anatomie Comparée et de Paléontologie contains over a million skeletons and a world-class fossil collection.

Details

Address:
36 rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire
5e
Paris
Price:
Grande Galerie €7; €5 reductions; free under-26s. Other galleries (each) €7; €5 reductions; free under-26s
Opening hours:
Grande Galerie 10am-6pm Mon, Wed-Sun. Other galleries 10am-5pm Mon, Wed-Fri; 10am-6pm Sat, Sun
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