The Hautes-Alpes department is a popular tourist destination renowned for its alpine valleys, peaks and villages. The department also has several remarkable museums, whose collections will enlighten you on the arts, local heritage and natural treasures to be discovered and preserved in the region. During your stay in the Southern French Alps, visit some of the most beautiful museums in the Hautes-Alpes department.
Museums of the Hautes-Alpes
Departmental Museum of the Hautes-Alpes
Free and open to all, the departmental museum of the Hautes-Alpes department awaits you in Gap. On a 2,600 m² exhibition space, the museum’s collections deal with various themes: archeology, contemporary arts, graphic and visual arts, living arts, ceramics, photography, ethnology, local history, natural history, numismatics, painting, sculpture, rare books, etc. Exhibitions and workshops regularly contribute to renewing visitors’ interest.
The Ecomuseum of Veynes
The arrival of the railway at the end of the 19th century opened up the Hautes-Alpes department. The Ecomuseum of Veynes preserves an epic of more than a hundred years old and offers visitors a presentation of rail-related trades, reconstructions of a station ticket office from 1900 and many other rooms (engineering office, lamp room, driver’s cab…). Numerous models, at different scales, delight children and their parents.
Muséoscope of Serre-Ponçon Lake
Lovers of swimming and water activities know the Serre-Ponçon lake very well. But the construction of the dam has led to major upheavals and several villages have disappeared as a result of the rising waters. The Muséoscope of Serre-Ponçon lake, through a journey that is both visual and sound, recounts the construction of the village and evokes the engulfed villages.
