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    Museums

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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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Maison des anciens remèdes

"La Maison des Anciens Remèdes" - the use of traditional herbal remedies

Jovençan

La Maison des Anciens Remèdes has been set up in an old rural house built in the late 17th Century and used as a hay barn in the parish of Jovençan until the early 1950s. This building represents a place where nature meets popular culture made up of …

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La Magdeleine in miniature

La Magdeleine

La Magdeleine in miniature, the embossed plastic in 1:87 scale illustrating faithfully every little detail of the village of the Matterhorn Valley can be admired at the Town Hall. Its creator, Mario Castelli, “ a retired-artist, has chosen to live in La …

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''L'Homme et la Pente'' ethnographic museum

''L'Homme et la Pente'' ethnographic museum

La Salle

The “L’Homme et la Pente” ethnographic museum is the heart of the valorisation project of the rural heritage of La Salle. The museum holds equipment used in agriculture and family life, particularly from the 18th and 19th centuries.

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"Maison Plassier'' house-museum

La Salle

On January 23rd, 2012 Carlo Plassier left through a testamentary legacy his house, including furniture and works of art, at the La Salle Municipality, on condition that it would have been open to the public in the future.The collection is the result of a …

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The seat

House-Museum of the Berton Brothers

La Thuile

Scholars, collectors, lovers of art and the local territory, the brothers Robert and Louis Berton, convinced that culture is a common good, donated their house, where the family used to spend their holidays, to the town of La Thuile, to make a museum of …

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The belltower of the church which hosts the museum

Parish museum

La Thuile

Located in the parish church of San Nicola, the museum holds statues and items of gold from sacred art dating back to the period from the 13th to the 19th century and coming from the church and the chapels in the parish of La Thuile.

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Chestnut Museum

Lillianes

Collection of tools and objects and different zonal species of chestnut.

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Biblioteca del fumetto - Morgex

Biblio-Museo del fumetto

Morgex

The Biblio-Museum was born thanks to the donation, in 2005, of a precious collection of comic books (over 30,000) and volumes, collected by Demetrio Mafrica, which allows to follow the birth and evolution of comics, especially Italian, and which is …

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museum of sacred art - Morgex

Parish museum

Morgex

It is situated beneath the left aisle of the parish church of Santa Maria Assunta and has interesting works of sacred art, including a silver relic chest from the 15th century, various astylar crosses and a chalice and paten found in the sepulchre of the …

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Astronomical observatory of Aosta Valley

Astronomical observatory of Aosta Valley

Nus

A journey among the stars in the Aosta ValleyPerched at over 1,600 m above sea level in Lignan, in the heart of the Saint‑Barthélemy valley, awaits an experience that will take you beyond the sky.Here stand the Planetarium and the Astronomical …

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