Sciences and Biodiversity Garden - Museum

Estimated at around 250,000 pieces, the collections of the Herbarium of the Sciences Garden-Museum of Dijon cover both the regional and national flora, as well as a few international sets. Collected since the end of the 18th century to the present days, many of these herbaria are now considered as references for the history of the regional botany.

The Sciences Garden-Museum Herbarium contains:

  • a large general collection, including collects from numerous botanists, mostly carried out in France in the last centuries;
  • some international herbaria, the main one being the Syrian-Lebanese Herbarium of Joseph Thiébaut (1871-1961);
  • several herbaria (composing the main collection) kept separately, and often classified according to the collector’s systematic preferences. The composition of these herbaria often leads to flora publication. Many of those, as well as collects’ logbooks, are kept at the institution’s library.

In 2002, the Sciences Garden-Museum started a preservation, restoration, inventory, digitization, and valorization program for its herbaria, especially the Henri Poinsot Herbarium, the restoration of which is still ongoing.

Global view of the collection: the compactus © Jardin des Sciences de Dijon

H. Poinsot Herbarium, Burgundy Flora Cephalenthera pallens Rich. Collector: P. Genty © Jardin des Sciences de Dijon

The Syria-Lebanon Herbarium of J. Thiébaut, Urtica Fragilis Thiébaut Bult. French Botanical Society 1935. © Jardin des Sciences de Dijon