Maison de la Dame de Brassempouy

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The PrehistoSite of Brassempouy is the cultural site of the village of Brassempouy, high place of the prehisto of South-West France. Composed of several spaces, a museum, an archaeological animation park, an archaeological site and an educational and scientific pole. It gathers objects found on the site of the Pope's cave, made famous by the discovery in 1894 of the Lady at the Hood.

Presentation: The museum was inaugurated in 2002 as Maison de la Dame. The architecture is signed Pierre and Eric Raffy. The building is surmounted by human-sized reproductions of three of the nine statuettes discovered on the site: The Lady of Brassempouy, the Belt Figurine and the Torse. These reproductions are the work of Roselyne Conil. The Lady with the Hood, also known as the Lady of Brassempouy, is a 3.65 cm figurine carved about 30,000 years ago in mammoth ivory. It is not preserved in the Brassempouy Museum, but in the National Antiquities Museum in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The Brassemouy Museum presents casts of all statuettes discovered on the archaeological site of the Pope's caves and other prehistoric statuettes...