Musée des Cristaux - Espace Tairraz

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

Fantastic collection of crystals and minerals. Perfect for children and adults. We were nicely surprised that it was included in our 3 days Ski pass, so we didn't have to pay for an admission.

Good collection of Crystals and knowledge about them. My daughter loved to play a small quiz game related to the museum provided at the front desk. Must visit if the beauty of crystals amaze you or want to learn what gems alps hold in them. Good option for a rainy day in Chamonix.