The Musée d'Anthropologie préhistorique was founded in 1902 by Prince Albert I to keep the prehistoric human remains found in Monaco and the surrounding region. Prince Rainier III moved it in 1959 to the Jardin Exotique, into a building by the architect Louis Rué, and it remains a research institute with its own excavations and publications, entered between the garden and the Villa Paloma.
The building
56Bis Boulevard du Jardin Exotique, Jardin Exotique, Monaco – facts from the open sources, each with its source.
Facts
- Address
- 56Bis Boulevard du Jardin Exotique
- Built
- 1959 (museum founded 1902)Metro Mode
- Architect
- Louis RuéOpenStreetMap / Wikidata
- Footprint
- 1,229 m²OpenStreetMap
- Built as
- Museum of prehistoric anthropologyMetro Mode
- Commissioned by
- Prince Rainier IIIMetro Mode
- Quartier
- Jardin Exotique
Getting there
- Nearest bus stop
- Observatoireline 3, line 5 · 1 min on foot
- Beach
- Plage du Solarium20 min on foot
- Port
- port de Fontvieille11 min on foot
- From the Casino
- 24 min on footestimate, with the stairs and lifts
- From the Palais
- 8 min on footestimate, with the stairs and lifts
On the map
Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology, its outline lit, on Boulevard du Jardin Exotique.
Building outlines and heights © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
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Sources
Building outline, height, floors, use and address: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0.
Wikidata (CC0) and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); the photograph from Wikimedia Commons under its own licence.
Buses: Compagnie des Autobus de Monaco GTFS (Licence Ouverte 2.0).
Mon Service Public (gouv.mc): Museums
Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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