Museum sights in St Denis
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Musée Léon Dierx
St-Denis' strong point is its buildings, rather than its museums, but it's worth popping your head into the rewarding Musée Léon Dierx. Housed in the former bishop's palace, built in 1845, it hosts Réunion's most important collection of modern art. The more high-profile works include paintings, sculptures and ceramics by Picasso, Renoir, Gauguin and Vlaminck, but the majority are by local artists such as the poet and painter Léon Dierx (1838-1912).
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Musée d'Histoire Naturelle
Very little of Réunion's natural history survived long enough to make it into the museum, but there are a few displays of extinct and nearly extinct native species, including the Réunion owl, kestrel, parrot and ibis.
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