National Museum of Prehistory

National Museum of Prehistory Musée National de Préhistoire November 2025: Even just the view from the top was worth the €6 entry fee! 😍👍🏽

Extremely organized detailed and we'll thought out. I would recommend.

Great place to see many many flint heads arrow heads and some cave wall drawings along with a life size giant stag and wild bear and a woolly mammoth very life like, the building is beautiful and cut into the mountain. If you have young children there is not much for them to do. It’s more of an adult research museum.

Good place to visit when nearby. But I lack the English explanation of it there is a lot in Fench but since this is a museum it should be two languages. Like i don't know most museums? So I did'nt follow most things that's a bummer..

Comprehensive museum in a very pretty space. However, like a man who wakes up as a cockroach, I lacked explanations. The museum could do with clearer descriptions, some items are not identified, some are not dated.. There is a wall on objects from the bronze age but the description fails to explain when the bronze age started and ended, what the items were, where they were found.... Would put 5 stars if this was changed. However a bargain for the price. Highly recommend a visit. Please look at this picture of a mammoth I took (don't worry! It's not alive! It's a reproduction!) Special highlight was the animal called the spermophile. Highly interesting, I knew a few of those in my day.

It offers many, beautiful and well organized artifacts from prehistorical times. Objects are organized chronologically. There are short films available in various sections explaining the objects. The only downside was the fact that very limited information was available in English. Otherwise a great museum to visit.

Two problems. First, the lighting of the displays is bright from the outside, into dim vitrines, which creates significant glare and reduced visibility, especially for the very many small objects placed at some distance from the viewer. Secondly, despite receiving verbal confirmation that the museum closes at 6 pm, I was promptly ushered out by 5.15. When I asked about this, the rationale was that the STAFF leave at 6; everyone must be out of the building by 5.30 pm. So the museum effectively closes by 5.30, and the staff cannot be inconvenienced with your presence. You won't see much here beyond stone flints and obsolete scenes.

Impressive museum. Great displays and interesting if that's what you're into. As it was the low season while we were there, the staff seemed surprised we were there. None of them proved very helpful. Very slow service. Lots of small jobs any of them could be doing but at least six of them just standing/sitting around playing on their phones. Outside stairs coming down from the roof were very slippery and covered in mould. The signs to the old museum still exists and sound be taken down as it's very confusing as a visitor.