LASCAUX IV International Center for Parietal Art Caves and chasms, Prehistoric Sites in Montignac

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  5 sur 5 Reviews posted by Richard Holcroft on 17/08/2024

  Great replica of the original Lascaux caves. Our guide was great and very knowledgeable. A word of warning that in peak season the car parks aren't big enough and it was hard to find a place which can then leave you tight for time if you have booked tickets in advance and have a timed entry!

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  5 sur 5 Reviews posted by Harry Sharpe on 03/09/2024

  Highly recommended, they have english speaking tours, really interesting to hear what they found and work going on to u derstand why these painting was done and what they mean, but you can't beat 20k year old cave paints for a day out in sunny south of France. Only down side but expected was the price restaurant.

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  5 sur 5 Reviews posted by Travis Cheramie on 23/07/2024

  I have wanted to visit these paintings since I heard about them as a teenager. I can absolutely recommend a visit to Lascaux as one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. Book online and book early because the best time slots fill up fast (particularly if you don’t speak French, I recommend a guided tour over the audio guided tour) Do not be deterred by the fact that it is a reconstruction of the original, it is highly faithful and the experience is like entering a true cavern, plus it is for the good of the original that they continue to do what they can to stop any further degradation of the art. As our tour guide said: the reconstruction is accurate to the millimeter compared to the original and is, in fact, closer to the cave as it was found in it’s original condition than the real cave is to it’s former self- due to the continuing fight against years of damage. My primary concern was that I was bringing along 2 small children (aged 6 and 9) and I thought they might become bored but I couldn’t have been more wrong. They were very engaged and interested and I didn’t once hear that they were bored! If there’s anything to critique it’s the AV portion of the tour with the tablets, while being very informative and rich, it suffers due to the fact that the tablets don’t always function as intended and that made my experience suffer because I had two children and an older adult with me who were constantly brining me their tablets because the audio wouldn’t play, or would play the incorrect information for their location, or they accidentally exited their screen and didn’t know how to get back to the correct one. I appreciate that I could experience the museum in my native language but I think the system needs some work. Overall in the scheme of things it was a minor annoyance at worst. A recommendation: it would be very interesting to have a portion of the museum dedicated to how the Lascaux IV reproduction was constructed. I found that I had as many questions about the museum as I had about the original cave! Maybe a little documentary shown in the cinema in rotation with the short film that currently plays in there?