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The relocation of the paleontology collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris

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The relocation of the paleontology collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris (MNHN) responded to several fundamental challenges. The first was the direct threat of a hundredyear flood of the Seine River, which would flood 75% of the collection. The second was to gather all the paleontology collections in the same place by 2022. This was a major task since it involved organizing and re-organizing the fossils in a rational and sustainable way for future generations. In the future, it will make it possible to have a high-performance tool that meets the demands of French and international researchers, but also requests from decision-makers and calls for tenders: directorates, ministries, national and international programs. The third issue was the possibility of allowing the MNHN to undertake a renovation of the comparative anatomy and paleontology galleries. In preparation for many years (preventive conservation, sorting of collections and cartography) and initiated internally by the removal of the d’Orbigny’s collection in June 2019, the phase 1 of the transfer of the paleontology collections officially began in August 2019. Three sectors were moved: fossil invertebrates, micropaleontology, fossil fish. The data confirm the pharaonic nature of this operation: 4 to 5 million specimens, 15,000 European standard bins, 50 linear meters of non-standard specimens, installation of a new storage dedicated for types and figured specimens of fossil invertebrates (45,000 samples – 120 cabinets), installation of a new micropaleontology room (100 m2). Beforehand, during the first half of 2019, four rooms in the new building were equipped with a mobile cabinet system and a 100 m2 room was equipped with semi-heavy fixed shelving for the non-standard (too large, too heavy) specimens of phase 2. This phase 2 concerned collections of fossil mammals (500,000 samples) and fossil reptiles, amphibians and birds. It took place between winter 2020 and summer 2021 and resulted in the displacement of 2 million fossils and 390 linear meters of nonstandard specimens. In 2022, phase 3 involved the relocation of 80,000 plant fossils, from macroremains to micro preparations.

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Paléontologie
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hal-03865151 , version 1 (22-11-2022)

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Sylvain Charbonnier, Laurent Albenga, Damien Olivier, Maxime Perretta, Caroline Jacquier-Hébert, et al.. The relocation of the paleontology collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris. 6th International Palaeontological Congress (IPC6), Nov 2022, Khon Kaen, Thailand. ⟨hal-03865151⟩
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