Musée des Cristaux - Espace Tairraz

We visited this place to fill a gap between two activities and ended up discovering an amazing spot! The staff at the counter were super friendly, and we even got a small discount by showing the guest card provided by our hotel in Chamonix. The exhibits are fascinating and beautifully presented, showcasing unique stones and minerals from all around the world. It’s an incredible demonstration of the amazing creations our planet can produce. This is the perfect activity for a rainy day or bad weather while in Chamonix — highly recommended!

I’m a bit of a rock geek, so this was up my alley. Very cool selection of gems and crystals. Only downside is there was no other language description of anything. I know, I know… it’s in France, but as a main tourist town where most things have translations that was a little disappointing. However it was good value, and I got the gist of it, the displays were very good.

The most beautiful, unbelievable museum ever! The photos don’t do it justice. Hundreds of specimens from around the world.

If you love stones, this place is for you. It boasts with some of the most incredible specimen, tells the history of this place and also has crystals and stones from all over the world. It’s very interesting, beautiful and worth the visit.

This museum rocks. The initial introduction video was Gneiss to whet your Apatite, but where this museum really shines is the collection of unique and ore-inspiring crystals from around the world. The whole Flourite is full of gems. Natrolite informational panels are in French (OKénite if you are fluent). Overall I Halite a great experience for the whole family. Don't Baryte on your itinerary in Chamonix, con-Sidérite a must!

With a huge collection of rocks along with a cheap ticket, the Crystal museum is a must visit for anyone in Chamonix. Though all the explanations are in French, you can decipher most of it and you honestly don’t need to be able to read it to have a good visit. There are a few large pieces of quartz that are open to being touched. With a hotel discount, adults are €5 and kids are free. Without a discount, adult tickets are still only €7. They offer a large French and international collection of beautiful and unique minerals, including a little exhibit for rare treasures. Overall an amazing place for any type of person, and it will broaden their interest in minerals and geology.

Beautiful collection! Lovely and helpful ladies at the desk too. Highly recommend a visit of you love your crystals

We visited the museum on a rainy day and weren’t disappointed. Unquie stones and crystals from all over the world. It made us proud to see a vast collection of stones from Pakistan. Kids enjoyed it too; it would have been great if the activity leaflets were in English, but it was in French only, and many kids like our kids couldn’t do the activity. But they still enjoyed it.