Tourist Information
It was the Musée Ethnographie du Trocadéro, founded by Ernest Hamyil in 1878, that led to the founding 60 years later of today's Musée d'Histoire Naturelle (Natural history museum). It was therefore on the occasion of the 1937 Universal Exhibition that the Musée de l'Homme (Museum of Mankind) was born. It was set up in the Passy wing of the Palais de Chaillot. From its predecessor, it retains the rich collections of the "cabinets de curiosités" and the Cabinet Royal, exceptional pieces discovered from the XVIth century onwards. And today still, thanks to numerous scientific expeditions throughout the world, this collection is still being enriched. The main purpose of the Musée de l'Homme is to spread knowledge of all the historic, cultural and anthropological diversity of the human race from 250,000 B.C. until the present day. And it is thanks, among other things, to its impressive collection on pre-history that the Musée de l'Homme manages to succeed in this delicate mission. But the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle is also a major Research centre, which is endeavouring to lift some of the mysteries covering themes such as world prehistory, the adaptation of the human race to its environments, the history of population movements or parietal art... It is therefore at the Palais de Chaillot that we can discover the History of Mankind, Place du Trocadéro, at the Metro station of the same. http://www.mnhn.fr
