Paléopolis,
Departmental museum
Opening
From 05/04 to 04/05/2025
Opening hours daily between 10 am and 6 pm.
From 05/05 to 04/07/2025
Opening hours on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday between 10 am and 6 pm.
From 05/07 to 31/08/2025
Opening hours daily between 10 am and 6 pm.
From 01/09 to 17/10/2025
Opening hours on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday between 10 am and 6 pm.
From 18/10 to 02/11/2025
Opening hours daily between 10 am and 6 pm.
Prices
From 05/04 to 04/05/2025
Adult: 14 to 18 €
Child : 5 to 16 €.
From 05/05 to 04/07/2025
Adult: 14 to 18 €
Child : 5 to 16 €.
From 05/07 to 31/08/2025
Adult: 14 to 18 €
Child : 5 to 16 €.
From 01/09 to 17/10/2025
Adult: 14 to 18 €
Child : 5 to 16 €.
From 18/10 to 02/11/2025
Adult: 14 to 18 €
Child : 5 to 16 €.
Free entry for children < 3 years.
Child entry valid for 4 - 15 years.
Means of payment
- Check
- Cash
- Bank/credit card
- Travellers Cheque
- Credit transfer
Description
Located in a preserved natural environment, Paléopolis is a theme park dedicated to palaeontology. A trip of 4 billion years is waiting for you with exhibitions, workshops, animations… Through exhibitions, you will discover the whole evolution of life with more than 300 fossils of species which inhabited the Earth with the famous T-Rex as a star. Varied workshops are offered to children to wear the shoes of a palaeontologist. Exhibitions with an important scientific content, a cinema, life-size dinosaurs, virtual reality and an optical theatre will provide you a unique experience. Novelties: the movie "Le monde perdu de la Limagne" offers a trip 23 million years ago, when the Limagne was a tropical land, and "Retour vers le passé", a 3D movie offering you a trip between past and present, sea and land, T-rex and Mosasaurus...
Accommodation in the close vicinity
Visit conditions
- Group visits Guided group tours on request
- Individual visits unguided individual tours available permanently, guided individual tours on request
Comfort & services
- Restaurant
- Film room
- Free car park
- Private parking
- Coach parking
- Meeting room
- Car park
- Public WC
- Bar
- Defibrillator
- Play area
- Picnic area
- Exhibition space
- Orientation board
- Air conditioning
- Lift
- Toilets
- Pets welcome
- Educational visits
- Shop
- Restaurant
- Fast food
Equipment
- Amphitheater
- Air conditioning
- Microphone
- Paper board
- Speaker pulpit
- Rectangular table
- Table
- High bar
- Video projector
- Visio/video conferencing
- Wifi in room
- Screen
- Office supplies
- IT equipment
- Photocopier
- Sound engineering
- Chair
Area & capacity
- Customer base Home school groups, Children, Groups, Welcome for business/incentive groups
- Maximum possible tourist capacity: 100
- Number of meeting rooms: 3
- Number of modular rooms: 2
- Equipped for Convention, Family Reception/drinks reception, Seminar/meeting
Rooms
Labels
- Sciences and technology
- Archeological
- Natural history
- Geology
Adapted tourism
hearing disability, accessible for wheelchairs with assistance, accessible for self-propelled wheelchairs, reserved space 330 cm wide < 100 m from the site, minimum aisle width of 90 cm, lift (80 x 130 cm) and door >= 77 cm, reception desk between 70-80 cm high, wc + grab handle + adequate space to move, site, building totally accessible, possibility of drop-off in front of the site, presence of pictograms and / or simplified visuals, documentation available in braille, relief map, tactile model or audio device description available at the reception
Categories
- Departmental museum
Spoken languages
Activities on site
- Permanent exhibition
- Temporary exhibition
- Entertainment evenings
- Activity
- Children's entertainment
- Discovery
- Arts
- Archeological digs
Situation
- Environment: in the country