Natural History Museum of Geneva



The Natural History Museum of Geneva (in French: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève) is a natural history museum in Geneva, Switzerland.

Louis Jurine’s collections of Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hemiptera are held by the museum.

Other displays include a collection of intricate glass models of invertebrates by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka and a living specimen of a two headed tortoise named Janus. The tortoise is considered the mascot of the museum and is one of their main attractions.

Notable people who worked for the museum

 * Aloïs Humbert, naturalist and paleontologist, curator since 1852
 * Auguste Louis Brot, malacologist, curator and researcher (1855-1896)
 * Emil Frey-Gessner, entomologist, conservator of the entomological collections from 1872
 * Émile Dottrens, scientific assistant for zoology
 * François Jules Pictet de la Rive, curator of paleontological collections
 * Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, member of the managing committee
 * Jules Favre, curator (1915-1952)
 * Perceval de Loriol, paleontologist and stratigraphist, associated with the museum for over 40 years
 * Peter J. Schwendinger, curator
 * Pierre Revilliod, curator and researcher

Collections of a number of prominent scientists are held in the museum.