Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy

As you approach the Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, you are looking at a structure that was intended to be four times its current size. Architect Ferdinand Dutert designed an ambitious, three hundred and twenty meter long building, but only the initial eighty meters were ever constructed. Inaugurated in eighteen ninety-eight, this remaining portion stands as a striking example of naturalism, blending exposed iron and glass with stone to create a space that feels like a nineteenth-century industrial cathedral dedicated to the study of life.