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
- 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
- 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
- Activity
- Children's entertainment
- Temporary exhibition
- Entertainment evenings
- Permanent exhibition
- Archeological digs
- Arts
- Discovery
Situation
- Environment: in the country
Associated structures
Escape Game, la face cachée de Lucy
Escape Game, la face cachée de Lucy