A thousand faces culture: museums

Visiting museums and expositions...

Expositions by the Centres of Gran Paradiso National Park

The lammergeyer museum in Rhêmes-Notre-Dame

The lammergeyer and Gran Paradiso National Park birds of prey. The history of a disappearance, an ambitious project, the return and, perhaps, a happy outcome for the largest bird of Europe. Around this central theme, are present information, images, sounds, multimedia games, to know lammergeyer and the ornithological fauna of Gran Paradiso National Park.

The lynx museum in Valsavarenche

The lynx and Gran Paradiso National Park predators. Today, we can find only five predators in the Gran Paradiso National Park.

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La Maison Musée Jean-Paul II - Introd - Loc. Les Combes

The museum of Les Combes, true sanctuary of the memory with relative images, documents and objects of John Paul II. The Maison Musée Jean-Paul II is dedicated to the exhibition of a series of pope’s objects, documents and photographies who gives a total vision of this pontificate. This collection introduces the apostolic aspect of the Holy Father in the world and Its presence in Aosta Valley through the personal objects used during the Aosta Valley’s vacations.

Regional Museum of Natural Science

The museum has nine rooms which present visitors with various aspects of the natural environment of Aosta Valley: mineralogy and geology, climate and glaciology of Aosta Valley, bone collection from the Gran Paradiso National Park (ibexes), Aosta Valley’s flora and vegetation (woods, bushes, meadows, etc.), four typical environments of Aosta Valley, birds, large and small mammals, insects and various examples of all orders. 

The Museum will be closed for renovation works in 2008.

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