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Birth: Metz (Moselle), 16-02- 1856 Death: Jaulny (Meurthe-et-Moselle), 27-03- 1932 Note : Anthropologist. - Staff Physician at the School of war <br /><br />museum René Collignon Liais <br />For the occasion, the museum wanted by the scientist Emmanuel Liais propose a temporary exhibition entitled René Collignon (1856-1932). Medicine and archeology, anthropology in the nineteenth century, made ​​with Inrap "René Collignon was the first Curator of the museum, from 1910 to 1914, and he is one of the emblematic figures, "says Eliane Paysant current conservative. Human remains found in or aurochs Nacqueville, photographs of Tunisians taken during his travels in Africa, a skull mapped to serve the very questionable science but then in vogue of phrenology, pseudoscience that showed the relationship between morphology of a skull and cognitive abilities ... <br />"The exhibition shows all the aspects of the work of a scientist at the time": archeology, ethnography, medicine etc. "René Collignon studied ancient populations through excavations and observing the Africans then" it was in contact with three ethnic groups when he was stationed in Tunisia, during the three years preceding his arrival in Cherbourg. Important detail: the exhibition will be on view until 13 October. <br />