Deserts
From 2 April to 30 November 2025
Exhibition-Event
Deserts
From 2 April to 30 November 2025
The exhibition Deserts takes you on a journey through the most extreme environments on our planet. From vast desert expanses to the icy landscapes of the poles, venture into the heart of these inhospitable territories and discover the amazing adaptations that allow life to survive here.
For its new, major spring exhibition, the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle invites you on an unprecedented journey to the heart of our planet's desert environments, from the iconic Sahara to the polar deserts, by way of the Sonoran, Atacama and Gobi deserts...
Whether scorching or polar, made of rock, sand, salt or ice, deserts all have in common the fact that they are open, arid environments subject to extreme temperatures.
Through almost 200 specimens and objects of various kinds, most of them from the Muséum's extensive collections, as well as multimedia interatives and large-screen projections, the exhibition offers a scientific, fun and aesthetic approach to these fascinating environments.
Silvère Jarrosson: painter of deserts
Anatomie comparée du paysage (Comparative anatomy of the landscape)
© Silvère JarrossonExtend your journey across the world's deserts with the art exhibition Silvère Jarrosson: painter of deserts.
Through eight monumental canvases, specially created for the exhibition Deserts, the painter Silvère Jarrosson explores three themes: how are landscapes formed? What role do chance and constraints play in this formation? And how do humans experience deserts?
Straddling art and science, these abstract works open the door to a poetic and mysterious universe that invites introspection and contemplation.
> From 2 April to 24 November 2025 – Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, Halle des Baleines, on exiting the exhibition Deserts
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