National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg

The museum is located in the Grund quarter on the eastern bank of the Alzette river, next to the Neumünster Abbey cultural centre.

The Society of the Natural Sciences was established in 1850, under the patronage of Prince Henry, the newly appointed Governor of Luxembourg representing Grand Duke William III.

The renovations had almost been completed by the outbreak of the Second World War, but the German occupation caused the museum to move again temporarily to protect its collections.

After a decade-long search for a suitable new site,[1] on 11 January 1990, the Chamber of Deputies agreed to restore Saint Jean's Hospice, in Grund.

[2] The new site was opened in June 1996, spread across three buildings, each dedicated to a different aspect of the museum's functions: collection displays, teaching classrooms, and research laboratories.

View from the Corniche (upper city): the museum consists of the white buildings in the center of the image. The left L-shaped white building hosts the research facilities.
Backside of the museum along the river Alzette.