Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature

[1] The museum has been characterized by the Smithsonian magazine as “one of the most rewarding and inventive in Paris",[2] and is described in tourist guidebooks and other media as "quirky, astonishing, strange and eclectic".

[3][4][5][6] The museum was founded in 1964 by wealthy French industrialist rugmaker François Sommer (1904-1973) and his wife Jacqueline, who were avid hunters and conservationists.

[7] The museum is housed within the Hôtel de Guénégaud (1651-1655), the only private mansion designed by architect François Mansart that still exists.

[10] The ceiling of one room has been covered in owl feathers in a work called The Night of Diana[11] by contemporary Belgian artist Jan Fabre.

These include a polar bear, lion, tiger, cheetah, fox, rhinoceros, bison, water buffalo and many birds.