1Grande Galerie de l'Évolution

Three levels of biodiversity and evolution under a restored glass roof, with marine life at the bottom, the African caravan on the first level, and the human impact and endangered species galleries above.

In This Area

The African Caravan

Installed 1994

Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, Level 1

Southern Right Whale Skeleton

Nineteenth century specimen

Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, Level 0

The Rhinoceros of Louis the Fifteenth

Arrived at Versailles in 1770, died 1793

Skeleton in the Galerie de Paléontologie et d'Anatomie comparée, ground floor; mounted skin in the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, Level 2

The Quagga

Nineteenth century specimen

Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, Level 2, room of endangered and extinct species

Siam the Asian Elephant

Died 1997, mounted afterwards

Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, Level 1