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The National Museum of Prehistory presents an exceptionally rich prehistoric past in situ, and conserves some 6 million objects. [1] A site museum avant la lettre, at the heart of the Vézère Valley "museum site", which declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979 for the importance of the Paleolithic remains, [2] and a reflection of rapidly expanding archaeological research, it now ...
The Musée de Préhistoire d'Île-de-France (Ile-de-France Prehistory Museum), located in Nemours, in Seine-et-Marne, is a departmental museum with a regional vocation.It presents the Prehistory of the Paris Basin, from the first vestiges attesting to the presence of Man, more than 500,000 years ago, to the end of the Gallic period, in the last quarter of the 1st century BC.
Felix Regnault, the president of the French Prehistoric Society, visited Glozel on 24 February 1928. After briefly visiting the site's small museum, he filed a complaint of fraud. On 25 February, the police, under the direction of Regnault, searched the museum, destroyed glass display cases and confiscated three cases of artifacts.
The National Archaeological Museum (French: Musée d'Archéologie nationale) is a major French archaeology museum, covering pre-historic times to the Merovingian period (450–750). It is housed in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye in the département of Yvelines , about 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Paris .
The Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in France since 1979. [1] It specifically lists 15 prehistoric sites in the Vézère valley in the Dordogne department, mostly in and around Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil , which has been called the "Capital of Prehistory". [ 2 ]
Abri Pataud Prehistoric Museum L’Harmas de Fabre The French National Museum of Natural History , known in French as the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle ( French pronunciation: [myzeɔm nasjɔnal distwaʁ natyʁɛl] ; abbreviation MNHN ), is the national natural history museum of France and a grand établissement of higher education part ...
The Muséum de Toulouse (Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de la ville de Toulouse, MHNT) is a museum of natural history in Toulouse, France. It is located in the Busca-Montplaisir neighborhood of the city, houses a collection of more than 2.5 million items, and has some 3,000 square metres (32,000 sq ft) of exhibition space. [ 1 ]
A debate opened at the French Prehistoric Society, and one of its members, André Vayson de Pradenne, visited the Landes in 1927, inspected the collections of the Dubalen Museum and several excavation sites, and noted that, despite morphological resemblance, the flints did not have the same technological aspect.