10.15 Créa'Magnon workshop
Re-live Prehistory and try out our ancestors' techniques : pottery, flint knapping, cave painting... and leave with your creation!
Bring your tribe along
Is your tribe ready to travel through the time and space to explore our prehistoric and geological past? The Aven d'Orgnac proposes a fun packed day for all the family !
A day of activities with your tribe
- 10.15 Créa'Magnon* workshop
- 11.15 Visit the Cité de la Préhistoire museum
- and Prehistoric activities**
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12.15 Picnic on-site, with products from the farm shop or from the café-snack
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13.30 Treasure hunt in the Maubois woods
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15.30 Guided tour of the cave
- 16.45 Snack on the site
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18.00 Papuan tales show***
*everyday during summer holidays at 10.15am.
**everyday during holidays (except Christmas and winter holidays).
***every wednesday during summer holidays.
Please note, the Treasure hunt, the prehistoric activities, the Créa'Magnon workshop and the criminal investigation are only in french.
This is a suggested program for a day at the Aven d’Orgnac, Grand Site de France. Certain activities are free, others can be reserved and paid online or on site, subject to availability. Please check our agenda for more information.
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11.15 Visit of the Cité de la Préhistoire
Discover the daily life of our ancestors from the Middle Palaeolithic through to the Early Iron Age at The Cité de la préhistoire ! Travel back in time 350 000 years , dig like a real-life archaeologist on our interactive touchscreen tables and come face to face with a cave hyena.
and Prehistoric activities
How did people light a fire during Prehistory ? How did prehistoric people hunt ? Immerse yourself in Prehistory by experimenting our ancestors' techniques.
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12.15 Shaded Picnic
Enjoy lunch during a well-deserved break in our shaded woodland picnic area. Zip line, slides and an outside play area are also waiting for you!
13.30 Treasure hunt in the Maubois
Let's hunt the Maubois's treasure into Orgnac's forest ! Enigmas, rapidity challenges, mimes, map reading... you need to pass the challenges to find the treasure !
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15.30 Guided tour of the cave
A grandiose tour, in the depths of the Aven d’Orgnac a “Grand Site de France”. Explore three immense chambers and admire the beauty of the subterranean landscapes: shapes that suggest giant palm trees, stacked plates, columns, ochred draperies... under 55 meter high ceilings.
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16.45 Snack time
Time for a snack? Take a look at the farm shop or the café-snack where you will find something for a sweet or refreshing bite.
18.00 Papuan tales show
We invite you to enter into the colorful Papuan universe ! A storyteller will enthral you with a show of stories from the Papuan tribes of West Papua, New Guinea.
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