Museum of mineralogy and palaeontology
Resorts: Saint-Vincent
The Museum is open in the afternoons from 3.00pm to 6.00pm (last entry 5.30pm):
- from 2 March 2024 to 28 July 2024: Saturdays and holidays
- from 3 to 18 August 2024: every day
- from 26 August 2024 to 22 December 2024: Saturdays and holidays
- from 26 December 2024 to 6 January 2025: every day
- Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Year: closed
At other times by reservation only for at least 5 people by calling at least the day before arrival.
Free entry with offer.
The site is accessible to people with disabilities.
The Museum aims to collect, classify and make known the minerals of the Aosta Valley and a number of crystals and semi-precious stones from around the world.
It currently has about 750 pieces on display, most of which come from the mountains near Saint-Vincent, in particular from Mount Barbeston, from Emarèse, from Brusson and Champorcher, all sites known to be rich in minerals.
The rarest and most beautiful pieces come from gold, iron and magnetite mines, now abandoned.
The museum also has a collection of about 170 fossils.