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The museums of the Aosta Valley acquire, study and preserve material and immaterial evidence of the territory, its history and its people: art and archeology, science and natural history, popular traditions.

NOT TO BE MISSED

Maison des anciens remèdes

Along stage 18, an interactive museum illustrates the natural remedies and the ancient traditions of healing with medicinal herbs.

Aosta Valley CRAFTS MUSEUM

The crafts museum of Fénis (stages 19 and 20) shows objects, materials and techniques of the handmade tradition of Aosta Valley.

Maison Musée Jean-Paul II

Along stage 15, objects, documents and photographs of Pope John Paul II, guest of excellence for years at Introd during his summer period of rest.

ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY

From Nus (stages 9 and 10) the Saint-Barthélemy astronomical observatory, at an altitude of 1600 meters, is worth a detour.

MUSEUM OF THE MEGALITHIC AREA

From the Neolithic Age to the Bronze Age, the Saint-Martin-de-Corléans museum in Aosta shows the evolution of this important prehistoric archaeological site.

REGIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM

At the regional archaelogical musem of Aosta there are numerous bits of evidence of the presence of man in Aosta, from prehistory to the Middle Ages.

Museums along the way

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The façade of the palace hosting the MAR

MAR - Regional Archaeological Museum

Aosta

The MAR-Regional Archaeological Museum, until the new rearrangement, becomes META/MAR Cantiere Museale PartecipatoSite included in the Aosta archeologica cumulative ticketThe Regional Archaeological Museum has a thematic and chronological itinerary.In …

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The church which hosts the museum

Parish museum

Arnad

The parish museum preserves some interesting sacred objects, including a crucifix from the second half of the thirteenth century and two German bas-reliefs representing St. Rocco and St. Sebastian, attributed to the school of the sculptor Michael Parth ( …

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Maison de Mosse

Maison de Mosse

Avise

This fortified house was built by the D’Avise family close to the Gaul roman road in the village of Runaz. At the end of the 15th century Jean le Jeune, lord of Runaz, transformed the building into a residence, whose beautiful widows in late-gothic …

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the church which hosts the museum

Parish museum

Avise

The museum, situated in the first side chapel on the right of the Saint Brice parish church, hosts different sacred works coming both from the same church and from the chapels of the villages Vedun, Charbonnière, Cerellaz and Runaz. The statues and …

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Chestnut Ecomuseum

Chestnut Ecomuseum

Bard

In the ancient times the chestnut was a base component of the peasant diet, especially in mid mountain villages.In the village of Albard di Bard, to demonstrate the processing of this product a ‘‘grehe’‘ has been set up, a characteristic small two-storey …

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Museo delle fortificazioni e delle frontiere

Il Ferdinando. Fortresses and Frontiers Museum

Bard

Located in the Opera Ferdinando on the first level of the Fortress, this museum offers an exciting journey into the evolution of defence techniques, blockade systems and the ‘border’ concept. The need to provide further historical information and …

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Museum of the Alps

Museum of the Alps

Bard

Located on the first floor of the Opera Carlo Alberto , the most important building of the spectacular Bard Fortress compound, the Museum of the Alps is an interactive, multimedia and multidisciplinary journey, an avant-garde museum space telling the …

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Le Alpi dei Ragazzi

The Children's Alps

Bard

Imagine stepping into a place where science meets emotion, where the mountains of the Aosta Valley tell in their own voice their millennial history and their fragility in the face of change.The Museum The Alps for Kids, housed within the Opera Vittorio …

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The Prisons – permanent exhibition on the Bard Fortress history

The Prisons – permanent exhibition on the Bard Fortress history

Bard

Located within the Carlo Alberto Building , the cramped cells of the Bard fortress in which prisoners were held, house today a history tour that leads visitors on the search for the story behind this military site, a centuries-old strategic transition …

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Capanna Luigi Amedeo di Savoia

Mountain hut Luigi Amedeo di Savoia

Breuil-Cervinia

Built in Turin by order of Club Alpino Italiano, disassembled and transported on foot to Mount Cervino in 1893 and then reassembled at 3840m above sea level along Cresta del Leone, the Capanna was named after Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the …

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