Préhistorama aims to take visitors on a journey through time, from the appearance of life on earth to the end of prehistory.
The journey is organized along a gallery of 78 showcases featuring almost 40 dioramas, reconstructed scenes of prehistoric life with life-size humans and animals.
Between 10,000 and 12,000 visitors pass through the Préhistorama every year. On display are real fossils and extremely rare fossil casts. In all, over 1,500 pieces from the personal collection of Bruno Guy, President of the association Les Amis du Préhistorama.
On the menu is a permanent collection: the Galerie des Temps Géologiques, a collection of over 500 fossils, tracing evolution from the beginning of life on earth to the appearance of man.
Reconstructed scenes from the life of prehistoric man and the Animal Room, an ethnographic collection with contemporary objects from tribal manufacture, sometimes unchanged since the Palaeolithic period.
The museum is the work of internationally renowned Finnish scientist Eirik Granqvist.
His skills range from taxidermy to sculpture and paleontology.
He created the Préhistorama in 1986 near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, then moved to Rousson in 1996.
Since 2001, the museum has been managed by the municipality of Rousson and the Communauté de Communes "Vivre en Cévennes".
Just 500m from the Préhistorama, you can visit the Jardins de la Gardie to discover the region's plants, a medieval garden, a medicinal plant garden and... the charcoal-making trade.
Préhistorama
75, chemin de Panissière
30340 Rousson
Tel.: 04 66 85 86 96
www.prehistorama.com
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