Jardin des Plants & Natural history Museum
Metro Austerlitz or Jussieu
http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/foffice/transverse/transverse/accueil.xsp

A rainy holiday Monday. What to do? We first headed to the air and space museum, but it was closed, (Oh, yeah, it said perfectly clearly “sauf lundi” but, as Steve Martin would say, III Forgot!). Take 2 was to the natural history museum in the Jardin des Plantes. A wonderful museum with lots of models of sea life, animals and 2 full scale whale skeletons, one with real baleen. A nice cafeteria overlooking the main exhibit space too. We didn’t make it to the hall of evolution, that will have to be for the next trip, as will the minerology museum right next door. The jardin itself was also lovely and there is a topiary maze as well as a zoo and a carousel with models of extinct animals.