Muséum départemental du Var, Natural history museum in Toulon, France

Muséum départemental du Var is housed in Villa Burnett within the Departmental Garden of Las and displays permanent exhibitions focused on the region's natural heritage. The collections include insects, birds, minerals, fossils, and historical agricultural objects from the area.

The natural history section opened in April 1888 within Toulon's municipal museum, sharing the building with the art section and the central library; mayor Henri Dutasta attended the inauguration. Its first keeper was Léon Pourcel, from 1906 to 1936. In 2003 the city transferred the museum to the Var departmental council, which moved it in 2010 to the former Burnett villa in the Las valley; it reopened there in 2011.

The museum's name honours the Var department, which took over the collection from the city of Toulon in 2003. Its displays shifted from exotic colonial species to the geology, wildlife and anthropology of Provence and the Var, presented in permanent rooms and about two temporary exhibitions a year.

The museum occupies a 650 m² timber-framed former Burnett family residence at 737 chemin du Jonquet, in the Jardin des Plantes du Las, a 15,000 m² estate classed as a sensitive natural area and remarkable garden. The three sections can be visited freely or with a guide, the latter by appointment for groups of seven or more; educational workshops also require booking.

The fossil collection includes an imagined reconstruction of a Variraptor, a small theropod dinosaur whose remains were found in the Var. The same displays hold ammonites, dinosaur eggs and bones, mammoth teeth and fossil shark teeth.