Musée des Merveilles
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Musée des Merveilles in Tende
in France
is a museum that documents stone age and other historic artefacts from the Mercantour National Park
. It opened in 1996. There is notably a large collection of real and reproduced petroglyph
s from the surroundings of the nearby Bégo Mountain
.
The museum's name comes from the nearby Vallée des Merveilles
.
Tende
Tende is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.-Geography:Tende is located within Mercantour National Park in the French Alps. The mountainous commune is bordered by Italy to the north, with the boundary determined by the watershed line between the two countries...
in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
is a museum that documents stone age and other historic artefacts from the Mercantour National Park
Mercantour National Park
Mercantour National Park is one of the nine national parks of France. Since it was created in 1979, the Mercantour Park has proven popular, with 800,000 visitors every year enjoying the 600 km of marked footpaths and visiting its villages.-Extent:...
. It opened in 1996. There is notably a large collection of real and reproduced petroglyph
Petroglyph
Petroglyphs are pictogram and logogram images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, and abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images...
s from the surroundings of the nearby Bégo Mountain
Mont Bégo
Mont Bégo is a mountain in the Mercantour massif of the Maritime Alps, in southern France, with an altitude of . It is included in the Vallée des Merveilles ....
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The museum's name comes from the nearby Vallée des Merveilles
Vallée des Merveilles
The Vallée des Merveilles, also known in Italian as the Valle delle Meraviglie , is a part of the Mercantour National Park in southern France...
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