Excursions and Workshop

Free entrance in the galleries

During the congress, you can freely access all the galleries and the zoo of the Jardin des Plantes. At the entrance, just show your badge of the congress.

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Grande Galerie de l’Evolution –Gallery of Evolution

Galerie de Minéralogie -  Mineralogy Galerie

Galerie de Botanique – Botanical Gallery

Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée – Paleontology and Comparative anatomy gallery

Grandes Serres – Greenhouse

Ménagerie – Zoo of the Jardin des Plantes

Tickets to visit the Musée de l’Homme (Mankind Museum - http://www.museedelhomme.fr/en) for free will be available at the registration desk.

Please note that all the galleries, the zoo and the Musée de l’Homme are closed on Tuesdays.

Guided excursions

As we have the great chance to be in a Muséum, amongst a very large number of impressive collections, we organised several guided visits of galleries and platforms for you on Friday the 9th.

Each visit has a limited number of persons, so we'll try our best to accommodate your choices. We will let you know by e-mail in which visit you are enrolled and at what time.

Be aware that all the persons that will guide you are doing it for free just for you! So please don't forget the visit you’re enrolled in, be on time and of course thank your awesome guide!

• Visit of the imaging Platform (at 14:00 & 14:30 – French & English)

The Muséum has been hosting an X-ray tomography facility for 5 years now. We CT scan specimens from a wide variety of collections such as paleontology, paleoanthropology, comparative anatomy, meteorites, entomology or marine environments, producing CT data for many different research projects every year. The session will show the system and some of the projects to highlight the fascinating results achievable with this equipment.

• Visit of the Herbarium ( At 14:00 & 15:00 – French & English)

Visit of galleries closed to the public that have just been renovated. The guide will present the scientific and historical interest of such collections.

• Visit of the collections of Entomology: terrestrial arthropods (At 14:00 & 15:15 – French & English)

Visit of different types of collections with various techniques of conservation for the preparation of the specimens. The guide will talk about the interest of those collections for modern research in entomology with the presentation of several tools and methods.

• Visit of the collections of Comparative Anatomy: osteology and fluids (At 14:00 & 15:30 – French)

History, contents and uses of the collections of comparative anatomy.

• Visit of the collections of Marine Invertebrates from the Zoothèque (At 14:00 & 15:15 – French & English)

After a brief introduction on the history and the functions of the Zoothèque, the guide will take you to the collections of marine invertebrates. He will present some remarkable groups and show amazing specimens.

Note that the hallways will be narrow so please do not carry large backpacks. Photos are allowed without flash.

• Springer Workshop (2:00 - English, from 2 PM until 4 PM)

A Workshop will be given by Springer, dedicated to young researchers willing to learn about publishing scientific research.

The workshop will take place in room Jean-Marie Betsch, 43 rue Buffon. See the map below.

Field trip: Meet the spiders of the Jardin Ecologique 

The field trip will take place in the Jardin Ecologique on Saturday the 10th from 2 pm until 4pm (English).

The Jardin Ecologique is a part of the Jardin des Plantes that is not open to the public except for guided tour. It is preserved and managed to present different habitat types and enhance biodiversity. Christine Rollard, a renowned biologist and specialist of spiders, will guide you and talk to you about these animals and show you the diversity of species you can encounter at the Jardin Ecologique.