The Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nantes is a natural history museum in Nantes. The first place dedicated to natural history in Nantes was a cabinet particulier created in 1799 by FR Dubuisson, a pharmacist (grocer, if you use the term of the time), a lover of natural history. In 1806, the municipality of Nantes bought the collection to make it a museum, inaugurated in 1810. In the following years, it was decided to build a building specifically for the museum: it is one of the first museums in France where this happened. The museum has a large collection, divided into various sections: geology, mineralogy, botany and natural sciences. On the first floor of the museum there is a zoology gallery, with a phylogenetic classification of the vertebrae. Particularly noteworthy is the skeleton of a whale, more than 18 meters long. The museum also organizes various exhibitions related to scientific and natural history themes.