Horaires/Période
From 22/12/2025 to 30/04/2026 from Monday to Friday between 2 pm and 6 pm.
Closed exceptionally on January 1st and Easter Monday.
From 18/05 to 03/07/2026 on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday between 2 pm and 6 pm.
Closed exceptionally on bank holidays.
From 04/07 to 28/08/2026 from Monday to Friday between 2 pm and 6 pm.
From 29/08 to 18/09/2026 on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday between 2 pm and 6 pm.
From 05/10 to 18/12/2026 on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday between 2 pm and 6 pm.
Closed exceptionally on November 1st and November 11th.
Tarifs
Free entry for children under 6, press, mountain guides, accompanying guides, the drivers, mountain guides.
Group rate available for 10 people or more.
Adults: €4.8, children: €3.3.
PRM, students, unemployed: €3.8.
Family pass (1 adult + 2 children): €11.
Additional adult: €4.3 - Additional child: €2.8.
Pass Maurienne adult: €3.8 - Child: €2.8.
Advantage Pass Activités: -2€ on free adult admission.
Bon à savoir
On reservation for groups from the museum
The museum presents the discoveries made in the Balmes cave and the visitor becomes a witness to the culture and cultural influences of these mountain people who had a relationship with their environment that went far beyond mere subsistence.
The first farmers and stockbreeders of the Neolithic period settled about 5,600 years ago in the Balmes cave overlooking Val Cenis-Sollières. The museum presents all the objects of the daily life of these first mountain dwellers of Haute Maurienne.
The objects and handicrafts on display in the museum plunge the visitor into the daily life of these mountain people, who had a relationship with their environment that went far beyond mere subsistence.
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