Courmayeur Museums: Info about Museums in Courmayeur

If you are interested in exploring the Haute-Savoie and Aosta Valley identity, you should visit the Museo Transfrontaliero, in the heart of Courmayeur, a 'cross-border museum of Mont Blanc' .

You can also visit the MAV | Museo dell'Artigianato Valdostano (Valdôtain Handicraft Museum) twhich hosts a collection over 700 works, typical of the alpine pastoral economy, to show the evolution of the traditional Aosta Valley handicrafts.  The museum is the meeting point between the Valdôtain handicrafts history and the artisans of nowadays.

 

Observatory & Panetarium in Saint-Barthélemy

The Astronomical Observatory of the Aosta Valley opened in 2003 and in 2008 a Planetarium was added to the project.  There is also a weather station. State-of-the-art equipment and the variety of instruments at the observatory means that scientific research, teaching activities for schools and information activities for the general public can be carried out, even simultaneously.  The Sun Observatory ensures that these activities are possible both by day and by night.  Situated at Saint-Barthélemy in the Aosta Valley for the reason that this area has at least 250 cloudless nights a year. The minimal light pollution and low atmospheric turbulence make it an ideal site for astronomy.  Saint-Barthélemy in the Aosta Valley's mountains is 1.600 metres above sea level and roughly 15 kms from the town of Nus. The village lies on a naturally formed "balcony" and has some of Europe's highest mountains: Mont Blanc, Monte Rosa, and the Matterrhorn all within a 40 km radius.