Galerie de Botanique
At the Galerie de Botanique, the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle preserves a scientific collection of dried plant specimens—an herbarium where each sample is treated as usable evidence. Specimens are often whole plants or plant parts pressed flat and mounted on paper as an exsiccatum, with the associated labels and data that let researchers describe and compare plant taxa over time. This way of working connects you to a shift in plant study that took place as botany moved away from classical texts and toward direct observation of living specimens. The long-running technique itself traces back centuries: in Italy, the physician-botanist Luca Ghini (1490–1556) helped reintroduce the study of actual plants, using a “dry garden” approach to collect material even in winter. …
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