Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
USM 602 \ UMS 2700 CNRS
16 Rue Buffon
Case Postale No. 39
75231 Paris Cedex 05
France
Fax: 33 1 40 79 33 37
Web: http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/foffice/transverse/transverse/accueil.xsp
Marc Pignal
Email: herbier@mnhn.fr
The Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle ranks among the world’s foremost natural history institutes and has one of the world’s most extensive plant collections, known as the Paris Herbarium. The herbarium includes more than 11 million specimens, collected from all over the world, including some very important collections from as early as the 16th century. Historical collections such as those of Jussieu and Lamarck, as well as the general collections, are particularly rich in type specimens of taxa described since the time of Linnaeus. This important research facility is open to international research efforts aimed at understanding and protecting the earth’s biodiversity and promoting sustainable development and researchers from around the world visit the museum to consult the types and other specimens necessary for their research in taxonomy and other aspects of botany.