Museums and visits

  • ​The museum of Tautavel

    More than 1500 m2 of exhibition galleries ... Through 22 rooms, the Museum of Prehistory invites you to meet the Man of Tautavel, the oldest man found on French soil (-450 000 years). The Museum of Prehistory presents its exceptional archaeological collections with modern museographic means so that this distant past becomes comprehensible to all audiences.

  • ​The man of Tautavel

    Further on, the Prehistoric Museum of Tautavel offers a great educational interest. Inaugurated in 1992, the new Tautavel Museum, European Center for Prehistory, is a great tool for the popularization of sciences related to archeology and especially prehistory on the Mediterranean quaternary periods.

  • Skull of the Man of Tautavel

    The Tautavel man is an early Prene- derertalian, European representative of Homo heidelbergensis, who lived 300,000 to 450,000 years ago (Middle Pleistocene). It is known by fossils uncovered from 1971 by Henry de Lumley's team in the Caune de l'Arago in Tautavel (French commune of Pyrénées-Orientales) in the Corbières. The associated lithic industry is typical of the Lower Paleolithic Europe.

  • ​The Museum of Dinosaurs in Espéraza

    Dinosauria in Espéraza is the first French museum dedicated entirely to dinosaurs and their contemporaries. Unique collections, presented in a didactic way, offer a true journey through time that goes back to the origins of life on Earth almost 3.5 billion years ago.

  • The Museum of Dinosaurs

    For children from 6 to 12 years old, a pedagogical and entertaining workshop is proposed: under the guidance of a facilitator, the children discover the secrets of the paleontological excavation and the reconstruction of a dinosaur skeleton.

  • ​Esperaza Dinosaur Museum

    It presents the public with a permanent exhibition dedicated to dinosaurs, including bones, eggs and footprints of these animals, as well as life-size reconstructions, and a video on the latest dinosaurs.