Paléopolis,

Paléopolis,

Departmental museum

A theme park dedicated to paleontology, Paléopolis, the dinosaur hill in Gannat (03), tells the most fascinating story of all: the evolution of life. In 2025, the park will present 5 new large animated sculptures of prehistoric animals!

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

  • Bank/credit card
  • Check
  • Travellers Cheque
  • Cash
  • 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

  • Play area
  • Picnic area
  • Lift
  • Bar
  • Toilets
  • Public WC
  • Air conditioning
  • Exhibition space
  • Car park
  • Orientation board
  • Defibrillator
  • Restaurant
  • Film room
  • Meeting room
  • Coach parking
  • Private parking
  • Free car park
  • Pets welcome
  • Educational visits
  • Shop
  • Restaurant
  • Fast food

Equipment

  • Sound engineering
  • Video projector
  • Paper board
  • Visio/video conferencing
  • Screen
  • Microphone
  • Wifi in room
  • Table
  • Chair
  • Speaker pulpit
  • Air conditioning
  • Rectangular table
  • High bar
  • Amphitheater
  • Office supplies
  • IT equipment
  • Photocopier

Area & capacity

  • Customer base Children, Groups, Home school groups, Welcome for business/incentive groups
  • Maximum possible tourist capacity: 100

    Rooms

  • Number of meeting rooms: 3
  • Number of modular rooms: 2
  • Equipped for Convention, Family Reception/drinks reception, Seminar/meeting

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

  • Activity
  • Children's entertainment
  • Temporary exhibition
  • Entertainment evenings
  • Permanent exhibition
  • Archeological digs
  • Arts
  • Discovery

Documentation

Situation

  • Environment: in the country

Associated structures

Escape Game, la face cachée de Lucy

Escape Game, la face cachée de Lucy

Paléopolis,