Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nîmes, Natural history museum in Nîmes, France.

The Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nîmes occupies a pale stone building whose round-arched entrance, flanked by two sculpted figures in niches, carries the gold inscription "MUSEUM D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE" beneath a balustrade topped with small stone urns. Inside, the museum is arranged around a 17th-century cloister and a listed chapel, with rooms devoted to prehistory, geology, ethnology and zoology.

The museum was founded in 1895 and grew from collections gathered by the Natural Sciences Study Society of Nîmes and Gard beginning in 1871. This establishment reflects the growing interest during the 1800s in documenting and preserving objects from nature and culture.

The museum displays ethnographic objects from Africa, Asia, and Oceania that show how people in different regions lived and worked. These collections give visitors insight into the crafts and daily items that were important to these cultures.

The museum is installed around a 17th-century cloister and a listed chapel, so the visit combines exhibition rooms with these older spaces. Temporary exhibitions are held separately in the Galerie Jules-Salles on Boulevard Amiral-Courbet, a short walk from the main building. The prehistory room on the ground floor was renovated in 2016, and the zoology room is arranged by phylogeny.

The collection includes material from prehistoric sites in the region, showing how people lived in this area thousands of years ago. These local pieces make the museum an important place to understand the prehistory of southern France.