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Geologic Nature reserve of High Provence
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A room of the museum


To discover the Reserves Geologic of High Provence consists of a real journey through time.


Its territory, fitted out to learn to read the earth(ground) visits as a museum with sky opened freely or driven(guided) by accomgnateurs in mountain of the Association Empreinte during the exits(releases) summer.

In the program :
- The Walk museum :... Walk in the wooded park filled with waterfalls, along road being given rhythm by artistic creations
- Ten aquariums tropical and Mediterranean sailors where seventy alive sorts (limules, scorpion fishes, nautiles...) are next(go alongside) to their fossilized ancestors,
- Memory(report) of the landscapes :mutimédia, images and objects allow to understand(include) the evolution of the regional landscapes since 300 million years,
- Fossils of the region : hundreds of fossils punctuate the various legible stages of the history of the earth(ground) on the territory of the Reserve,

- geologic Imagination : privileged meeting, full of forms and colours enters an unique(only) collection of unwound ammonites and the painter Georges Autard,
- Memory(report) of plants : short wink in the history of the vegetation,
- Showroom of contemporary art :permanent or short-lived, the exposed(explained) objects of art are the fruit of meetings between the territory of the Reserve and the big contemporary artists (Andy Goldsworthy, Jean - Luc Parant...).

The museum - walk
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Réserve Naturelle Géologique de Haute Provence
Parc Saint-Benoît
BP 156
04000 - Digne les Bains Cedex
Pho. : +33 (0)4 92 36 70 70 — Fax : +33 (0)4 92 36 70 71
E-mail : resgeol@free.fr

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