Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature

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The Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature is a private museum of hunting and nature located in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, France. The museum can be accessed with the Rambuteau Metro station. Going past the handsome building that houses the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, named after Museum of Hunting and Nature, we imagined a place filled with stuffed animals and insects pinned under glass. Well, be prepared to be surprised!

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The ceiling of one room has been covered in owl feathers in a work called The Night of Diana by contemporary Belgian artist Jan Fabre, previously known for decorating the ceiling of the Royal Palace in Brussels with more than a million and a half beetle wing cases. The museum's rooms have names such as Room of the Boar, Salon of the Dogs and Cabinet of the Wolf.

The museum is housed within the Hôtel de Guénégaud (1651-1655), the only private mansion designed by architect François Mansart. Made up of multiple rooms paneled in wood and outfitted with bronze decorative fixtures designed by Brazilian sculptor Saint Clair Cemin, and made to look like vines, antlers and tree branches.

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The museum displays ancient and contemporary works together: in the Salon of the Dogs, a collection of gold dog collars throughout the ages is displayed alongside 17th-century portraits of Louis XIV's pets and a small white version of the Scottie dog sculpture Puppy by contemporary American ceramic artist Jeff Koons.

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The museum is organized around three themes: weapons and array of weaponry from the 16th through to the 19th century, including spears, crossbows, hunting horns, powder flasks and guns and other instruments of hunting such as guns and horns. Followed by hunting products such as trophies and taxidermied animals.

Last but not least, representations of hunting and nature scenes by historically significant artists such as Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens, German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder, 17th-century Flemish painter Frans Snyders, official 'painter of the hunt and animals' Alexandre-François Desportes and naturalistic French Rococo painter Jean-Baptiste Oudry, as well as contemporary artists such as Belgian multidisciplinary artist and sculptor Jan Fabre, French glass sculptor Jean-Michel Othoniel and contemporary French watercolour painter Francoise Petrovitch.

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