Musée d'histoire naturelle - Guimet, Natural history museum in 6th district, Lyon, France

The Musée d'histoire naturelle - Guimet is a former natural history museum at 28 boulevard des Belges in Lyon. Its curved pale stone corner has a dark double door under a carved surround with a plaque reading "MUSEUM D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE". Above, two tall arched windows sit between pilasters carved with square panels, and a stone balustrade supports an open colonnade of round columns beneath a shallow domed roof.

The industrialist Émile Guimet founded the museum in 1879 to display his personal collection that he had gathered over the years. Later, he relocated the exhibits to Paris because local interest proved limited.

The museum served as a place where visitors could observe fossils and rocks from different regions displayed together. The collections told stories of the natural world through their assembled specimens.

The building is located near Parc de la Tête d'Or at 28 Boulevard des Belges. The structure has been closed to the public since 2007 and is not currently open for visits.

The Choulans mammoth, a skeleton found in Lyon in 1859, was moved into the building in March 1914 under the glass roof of the main hall. It stayed there until the museum closed in 2007, when the collections went to the Musée des Confluences.