Musée De Préhistoire D'Île-de-France
The Musée de Préhistoire d'Île-de-France (Ile-de-France Prehistory Museum), located in Nemours, in Seine-et-Marne, is a departmental museum with a regional vocation. It presents the Prehistory of the Paris Basin, from the first vestiges attesting to the presence of Man, more than 500,000 years ago, to the end of the Gallic period, in the last quarter of the 1st century BC. AD. Completed in 1980, the raw concrete and glass building is the work of architect and urban planner Roland Simounet. General presentation Leaning against the natural slope of the land, the museum is surrounded by a forest of regional tree species (pines, oaks, birches, hornbeams, hazelnuts, acacias, etc.) and by sandstone boulders. The picturesque natural site is part of the forest of Nemours- Poligny, which is itself a southern extension of the forest of Fontainebleau. The path inside the museum that guides visitors through the exhibition is chronological. The rooms, distributed around patio-gardens ...
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Museum
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers and specialists. Museums host a much wider range of objects than a library, and they usually focus on a specific theme, such as the art museums, arts, science museums, science, natural history museums, natural history or Local museum, local history. Public museums that host exhibitions and interactive demonstrations are often tourist attractions, and many draw large numbers of visitors from outside of their host country, with the List of most-visited museums, most visited museums in the world attracting millions of visitors annually. Since the establishment of Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, the earliest known museum in ancient history, ancient times, museums have been associated with academia and the preserva ...
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Poligny, Seine-et-Marne
Poligny () is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. See also *Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department The following is a list of the 507 communes of the Seine-et-Marne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):

National Museums Of France
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Prehistoric Rock Engravings Of The Fontainebleau Forest
The prehistoric rock engravings of the Fontainebleau Forest are an abundant collection of rock art discovered among the sandstone boulders of the Forest of Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau Forest in France. Several thousand petroglyphs have been discovered in the forest, with earliest dating to the Paleolithic (very few examples), roughly 2000 to the early Mesolithic and almost 300 to the late Bronze Age. The cave engravings can be divided into two broad groups. The most readily visible to the casual observer are largely non-figurative collections of repetitive geometric patterns, usually found in larger rock shelters, some of which were inhabited by Mesolithic peoples. The second, much smaller, group is a series of several hundred figurative engravings that were only recently discovered (2014) in a much more circumscribed area of the Fontainebleau Forest. Many of these engravings are found in small cavities in the sandstone boulders and are not readily visible to passersby. Non-figu ...
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