Monaco - Libraries and museums



The palace archives include the private collections of the princes of Monaco, as well as a collection of money minted since 1640. The Louis Notari Library in Monaco (1909) has a collection of over 285,000 volumes. There is a Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco featuring 1,500 pieces of Irish folk music and personal papers of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier.

The Oceanographic Museum in Monaco-Ville, founded in 1910 by Prince Albert I and previously directed by the noted Jacques-Yves Cousteau, contains a library of 50,000 volumes, an aquarium, and displays of rare marine specimens. In addition to the museum, the Oceanographic Institute conducts research in various marine areas, including the effects of radiation on the sea and its life forms.

The Exotic Gardens include thousands of varieties of cacti and tropical plants. The National Museum in Monte Carlo was established 1972. There is a Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology in Monte Carlo and a wax museum. There is a Napoleonic Museum in Monaco-Ville.

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User Contributions:

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Bill Farquhar
Does your Library at the Oceanographic Museum hold books about Prince Albert I and his

trips to the Azores? Can I look at these books while visiting the Museum?

Thank you. waf25@hotmail.com
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Tony Freer
I am trying to locate details of a group that appeared at the Monte Carlo Centenary in 1966. The Band is called the ARTWOODS. They appeared at the Casino, I believe and know that Princess Grace was in attendance for the show on May 29, 1966.
I an looking for any photographs, information, reviews, film - in fact anything at all related to this show and specifically the ARTWOODS.
Anything at all that you are able to provide, or who may have this information will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you, Tony

Tony Freer
Woodstock, Ontario
CANADA

antfreer@yahoo.ca

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