The official application of the National Museum of Prehistory of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac (Dordogne).
This application offers a guided tour of exhibits and information about the museum.
It can be used before, during or after your visit.
Downloadable free. Available in French.
About...
A prestigious museum in the heart of the Valley Man
With the application "National Museum of Prehistory", discover exceptional collections retracing over 400 millennia of human presence.
Located in the Vézère valley, not far from the famous Lascaux caves, the National Prehistoric Museum offers a complete approach to the Paleolithic, the first hunter-gatherer occupations in Aquitaine until the end of the Ice Age. Stone tools, bone art objects or ivory, life-size reconstructions of prehistoric men and extinct animals make visible the great cultural and environmental changes primarily related to Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.
Exhibitions to browse time
The "National Museum of Prehistory" invites you to discover the wealth Signs exposure. Inequalities in the Neolithic.
During their expansion in Western Europe, the Neolithic communities have developed agriculture and animal husbandry, as well as new techniques for making tools and ornaments. Necklaces, daggers, axes, bracelets, manufactured in rare materials and sometimes broadcast on more than 1000 kilometers, reflect class differences that existed there more than 5000 years.
Exhibition organized with the RMN - Grand Palais, presented from June 27 to November 15, 2015 at the National Museum of Prehistory of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac and 1ᵉʳ December 2015 to 17 April 2016 at the Confluence Museum in Lyon.
What's the application?
This application "National Museum of Prehistory" is a first step in a cultural offer for widening.
Temporary exhibitions benefit from 2015 accompanied by a trail of written comments and illustrations.
It will also be proposed this year a version of the enhanced implementation of the full itinerary of the permanent collections:
- An adult visit
- A child visit
- Three languages available for tours: French, English, Spanish.
It is currently organized as follows:
1- TERM VISITS: presentation of the exhibition Signs of wealth. Inequalities in the Neolithic
2- PROGRAM CULTURAL OFFER: all museum activities and proposals around the exhibition
3 PRACTICAL INFORMATION
4. Link to the site of the National Museum of Prehistory
5- Link to the FACEBOOK page of the National Museum of Prehistory
