A area to discover on the Museum’s permanent tour

On the 1st floor of its permanent exhibition, the Museum has opened an area of almost 300 m² devoted to biodiversity and the major issues involved in preserving it.

Here you can wander through a teeming, colourful universe and come across a strange planet that is none other than our human body.

We take a virtual walk through the Bouconne forest, discovering the magic of the soil, one of the most fascinating living constructions, home to a significant fraction of the Earth’s total biodiversity.

We then move on to the scale of the planet, and realise that our health is directly dependent on that of the animals and plants around us, and on that of the ecosystems in which we live. In other words, without biodiversity, the planet would be unliveable, neither for the human race nor for a large part of the living world. If nothing is done to halt the decline in biodiversity, our planet will become almost uninhabitable for humans.

Open to the general public, access to the space included in the admission ticket for the permanent exhibition.