Natural History + Science Museums

This muse­um has over 133 years of expe­ri­ence shar­ing a sci­en­tif­ic under­stand­ing of human evo­lu­tion with the pub­lic. It start­ed off as the Tro­cadéro Muse­um of Ethnog­ra­phy in 1882. Its goal was to pre­serve objects from a “van­ish­ing cul­ture.” Even its design was made to reflect the evolutionist/ethnocentric con­cepts of that time. In 1928, the muse­um had an evo­lu­tion of its own, shift­ing its focus to anthro­pol­o­gy rather than, uh,  ethnog­ra­phy. That change cul­mi­nat­ed in the 1937 open­ing of the muse­um as it’s known today: an orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cat­ed to show every­thing that con­cerns human beings, regard­less of race or creed, and believes that every­thing has a place and deserves recog­ni­tion. Over the years, they’ve added more archae­o­log­i­cal col­lec­tions to reflect this mis­sion. Its per­ma­nent exhibits aim to ques­tion the ori­gins of humankind and what it means to under­stand the human race in a bio­log­i­cal, cul­tur­al, and soci­etal sense.