Live Morning in a Museum: Le Musée national de la préhistoire

For the first time and in exclusivity with the Alliance Française Silicon Valley, the National Museum of Prehistory in Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France opens its permanent collections.  Éléonore de Castro, lecturer specialized in paleontology will be our guide for this journey conducted in English.This visit will take you back to the prehistoric ice age when the first men occupied the Dordogne. It is a landscape of steppes made of forests frozen lands, reindeers, mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses. We hope this experience will give you a better understanding of the history of this particular period of humanity. 

• We will follow the evolution of the first hominids in the world and more particularly in the Dordogne, cradle of prehistory in Europe.
• We will discover the environment of these first men through their habitat and their way of life with the help of artifacts.
• We will end this visit with an exclusive feature of this museum - the cliff.

Indeed, this museum was built in a cliff in which we can observe the successive archaeological layers of this period.

This virtual visit will be followed by a Q&A led by Véronique Vassout.
Doors open at 8:30am to give you time to enjoy a coffee, croissant and taste the Petit Pot.

Eléonore de Castro studied prehistoric and protohistoric archeology in Toulouse and completed a research master's degree in archeology in 2017. Throughout her studies, she participated in excavation sites and offered voluntary cultural mediation activities with various associations. Passionate about the world of museums and cultural mediation in archaeology, she then obtained the national lecturer's guide card and notably worked for the Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palais, at the national archeology museum (78), at the National Museum of the Middle Ages, ancient thermal baths of Cluny (75). Since April 2022, Eléonore has held the position of titular RMN-GP lecturer guide at the National Museum of Prehistory, rich in more than 7 million objects, from the Paleolithic to the Metal Ages, in Eyzies de Tayac, the international capital of Prehistory which welcomes visitors and scientists from all over the world.

Only online registration, no admission at the door. Limited seating.

This event is generously sponsored by 

Cette visite vous permettra de plonger à l’époque glaciaire de la préhistoire où les premiers hommes ont occupé les territoires de l'actuelle Dordogne. C’est un paysage de steppes, constitué non pas de forêts, mais de terres gelées, peuplées de rennes, de mammouths, et de rhinocéros laineux. Ce rendez-vous immersif vous permettra de mieux comprendre l’histoire de cette période particulière de l’humanité.

• Nous suivrons l’évolution des premiers hominidés dans le monde et plus particulièrement en Dordogne, berceau de la préhistoire en Europe.
• Nous découvrirons l’environnement de ces premiers hommes à travers leur habitat et leur mode de vie à l’aide d’artefacts.
• Nous terminerons cette visite par une exclusivité de ce musée, construit directement dans la falaise.

En effet, fait unique au monde, ce musée a été construit dans une falaise, dans laquelle on peut observer les couches archéologiques successives de cette période.