manuel cohen

Jardin des Plantes, Paris, France

The herbarium building, dated 1935, seen at twilight, Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Designed to hold a maximum of 6 million specimens, this number was quickly reached and was exceeded more than 20 years ago. About a third of the collections could not be accommodated in the 48,000 cabinets comprising the three 70-meter long galleries. The renovation plans impact the current building, without any new construction, creating the installation of a mobile system ("compactors"), preventive storage measures (air conditioning) and a redesign of the space allocated to management and research. The plans also call for adding a botanical library housing all of the documents from the former Cryptogamie and Phanerogamie laboratories. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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The herbarium building, dated 1935, seen at twilight, Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 5th arrondissement, France. Designed to hold a maximum of 6 million specimens, this number was quickly reached and was exceeded more than 20 years ago. About a third of the collections could not be accommodated in the 48,000 cabinets comprising the three 70-meter long galleries. The renovation plans impact the current building, without any new construction, creating the installation of a mobile system ("compactors"), preventive storage measures (air conditioning) and a redesign of the space allocated to management and research. The plans also call for adding a botanical library housing all of the documents from the former Cryptogamie and Phanerogamie laboratories. Founded in 1626 by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, the Jardin des Plantes, originally known as the Jardin du Roi, opened to the public in 1640. It became the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 during the French Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen