Exposition - Voyage botanique dans les Pyrénées

This exhibition, combining art and science, is an invitation to explore a beautiful Pyrenean valley, rich in unsuspected biodiversity. It's also a journey through time, with the discovery of great botanists who have left their mark on history.

The Eyne valley, nestled in the heart of the eastern Pyrenees, boasts exceptional biodiversity and owes its fame to the work of illustrious naturalists such as Gouan and De Candolle. The exhibition presents a historical, scientific and artistic journey of discovery of remarkable species. It tells the story of the first botanists to study Pyrenean flora, from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 19th.
It also shows in concrete terms how these naturalists practiced botany in libraries, in the field or in natural history cabinets, with a few pointers on plant classification.
A selection of paintings by Christophe Eckes, devoted to emblematic species of this valley, are used to illustrate the exhibition, alongside herbarium plates and works from the Stanislas and Jardin Botanique libraries.
An exhibition conceived by the Archives Henri-Poincaré - Philosophie et Recherches sur les Sciences et les Technologies laboratory (Université de Lorraine), in collaboration with the botanical garden teams.

Paintings: Christophe Eckes.
Texts by Romain Bissot, phytosociologist (Conservatoire botanique national Sud-Atlantique), Pierre-Edouard Bour, scientific and cultural mediation manager, Christophe Eckes, lecturer and Stéphane Schmitt, research director (Archives Henri Poincaré).
Layout: Benjamin Didiot.

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