{"id":12675,"date":"2026-09-15T11:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/?p=12675"},"modified":"2026-09-15T15:56:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:56:43","slug":"une-histoire-du-museum-dhistoire-naturelle-daix-en-provence-et-de-ses-collections-entomologiques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/une-histoire-du-museum-dhistoire-naturelle-daix-en-provence-et-de-ses-collections-entomologiques\/","title":{"rendered":"A history of the Natural History Museum of Aix-en-Provence and its entomological collections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cr\u00e9\u00e9 en 1838, le Mus\u00e9um d\u2019histoire naturelle d\u2019Aix-en-Provence poss\u00e8de une histoire riche, marqu\u00e9e par plusieurs d\u00e9m\u00e9nagements, des dons exceptionnels et aussi des pertes importantes de collections. In an article published in the Bulletin de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 linn\u00e9enne de Provence<\/em><\/a>, Jean-Yves Meunier,<\/strong> IRD-IMBE, et Yves Dutour<\/strong>, conservateur du Mus\u00e9um, retracent cette histoire et s\u2019int\u00e9ressent plus particuli\u00e8rement aux collections entomologiques.<\/p>

Aujourd\u2019hui, ces collections repr\u00e9sentent environ 40 000 sp\u00e9cimens r\u00e9partis dans 412 cartons<\/strong>, auxquels s\u2019ajoutent les dons re\u00e7us plus r\u00e9cemment. Elles comprennent notamment des ensembles historiques datant du XIXe si\u00e8cle, comme les collections de Jean-Hubert Chabrier<\/strong> and Victor Achard<\/strong>, t\u00e9moins de l\u2019importance de l\u2019entomologie dans l\u2019histoire scientifique locale.<\/p>

L\u2019histoire du Mus\u00e9um est aussi celle d\u2019un patrimoine fragile : une partie des collections a disparu au fil des d\u00e9m\u00e9nagements et des \u00e9v\u00e9nements historiques, notamment lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Apr\u00e8s avoir connu plusieurs lieux d\u2019exposition, le Mus\u00e9um a finalement ferm\u00e9 ses portes au public en 2014. Ses collections sont aujourd\u2019hui conserv\u00e9es dans les r\u00e9serves de Barida, \u00e0 Aix-les-Milles, sans espace permettant leur pr\u00e9sentation au public.<\/p>

\u00c0 travers ce travail, les auteurs mettent en lumi\u00e8re la richesse de ces collections et leur int\u00e9r\u00eat \u00e0 la fois historique, scientifique et patrimonial, ainsi que l\u2019importance de leur conservation et de leur connaissance. <\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Cr\u00e9\u00e9 en 1838, le Mus\u00e9um d\u2019histoire naturelle d\u2019Aix-en-Provence poss\u00e8de une histoire riche, marqu\u00e9e par plusieurs d\u00e9m\u00e9nagements, des dons exceptionnels et aussi des pertes importantes de collections. Dans un article publi\u00e9 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":12687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publication"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12675"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12683,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions\/12683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}