?? The Henri Dupuis Museum has been closed to the public since 2004.
Henri Dupuis (1819 - 1889) was a major collector in the Auvergne region in the 19th century. A natural scientist with a curiosity for the world and a love of art, he spent his life accumulating all manner of natural specimens from the four corners of the globe. On his death in 1889, he bequeathed his home and his entire collection to the town "to be of use to all, especially young people".
The Musée Henri Dupuis is a collectors' museum, devoted entirely to natural history, with the notable exception of Flemish cuisine. The museum has a rich collection of shells, minerals, fossils and naturalised birds. It is an educational museum, with dioramas installed on the ground floor in the 1970s to present the collections of naturalised birds in a more realistic and lively way. The Flemish kitchen, the mineral room and the impressive shell room remain in their original 19th-century presentation. The preserved collections have belonged to a number of collectors, including Henri Dupuis and Charles Van Kempen.
The Musée Henri Dupuis has been closed to the public since 2004, as the building no longer complied with reception standards. However, the team at Saint-Omer's Museums and Heritage Department is continuing to work on the collections and the building.
On the ground floor of the building, you can take part all year round in two different escape games, run by the Pays de Saint-Omer Tourist and Convention Bureau.
At the Musée Sandelin, one exhibition in three is devoted to the natural history collections (for example, in 2023: the "A plume!" exhibition on bird reproduction).
Henri Dupuis (1819 - 1889) was a major collector in the Auvergne region in the 19th century. A natural scientist with a curiosity for the world and a love of art, he spent his life accumulating all manner of natural specimens from the four corners of the globe. On his death in 1889, he bequeathed his home and his entire collection to the town "to be of use to all, especially young people".
The Musée Henri Dupuis is a collectors' museum, devoted entirely to natural history, with the notable exception of Flemish cuisine. The museum has a rich collection of shells, minerals, fossils and naturalised birds. It is an educational museum, with dioramas installed on the ground floor in the 1970s to present the collections of naturalised birds in a more realistic and lively way. The Flemish kitchen, the mineral room and the impressive shell room remain in their original 19th-century presentation. The preserved collections have belonged to a number of collectors, including Henri Dupuis and Charles Van Kempen.
The Musée Henri Dupuis has been closed to the public since 2004, as the building no longer complied with reception standards. However, the team at Saint-Omer's Museums and Heritage Department is continuing to work on the collections and the building.
On the ground floor of the building, you can take part all year round in two different escape games, run by the Pays de Saint-Omer Tourist and Convention Bureau.
At the Musée Sandelin, one exhibition in three is devoted to the natural history collections (for example, in 2023: the "A plume!" exhibition on bird reproduction).
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