Henri Jean François Joseph Verne (21 September 1880, Cannes – 11 February 1949, Paris) was a French museum director and curator.
The modernization program began by replacing the museum's oil lamps with electric lighting.
In 1927, he ordered the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers to make an analysis of the paints.
In 1937, he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, where he took Seat #8 in the "Unattached" section.
The following year, anticipating the war, he helped to devise a plan for transferring some of the museum's most vulnerable and valuable pieces to the relative safety of the Château de Chambord.