Lascaux International Exhibition

Whoa !

You can visit alone the Lascaux cave and admire all the rooms as mobody has done till today !!!
Indeed thank to the Virtual Reality, the Lascaux Experience touring exhibition, offer a discovery of the paintings even those totally unaccessible !

– OLIVIER RETOUT : o.retout@dordogne.fr

Designed and built in France (Périgord) with the collaboration of the best prehistorians and the painstaking work of artists, painters and engravers, Lascaux - International Exhibition, offers an exclusive 3D VR immersion in the decorated walls of the most spectacular sanctuary of Paleolithic art.

Visitors can discover alone, by themself, all the masterpiece of Lascaux in a 20 mn virtual journey with autonomous headset and interact and play with the light/shadows with their torches. Aside the films and the 15 interactive stations full of colors and emotions, there is also on display the objects from Lascaux (arrow heads, spears, the famous pink lamp in red sandstone…), as well as four amazing anatomical models of a Cro-Magnon family.

This unique exhibition is the fruit of a marriage between cutting-edge technology and the art of excellence. The 3DVR programme reproduce the topography of the rock walls based on the exclusive detailed laser scan of Lascaux. The views are identical to the originals in their characteristics: micro-relief, appearance, texture and final rendering. You are really « IN » the Lascaux cave… closed from 1963 !

The 300-500m² exhibition layout will allow the public to explore the history of the famous cave which for over 80 years has been the focus of the efforts and interest of scientists and artists. Each visitor will be able to form his own personal interpretation of Humanity’s first works.

A successeful
World Tour

#1 Chicago (USA)
19/03/2013 - 08/09/2013
The Field Museum of Chicago

#2 Houston (USA)
18/10/2013 - 23/03/2014
Houston Museum of Nature & Science

#3 Montreal (Canada)
16/04/2014 - 14/09/2014
Montreal Science Centre

#4 Brussels (Belgium)
13/11/2014 - 12/04/2014
Royal Museum of Art & History

#5 Paris (France)
19/05/2015 - 30/08/2015
Exhibition Park, Porte de Versailles

#6 Geneva (Switzerland)
2/10/2015 – 17/01/2016
Palexpo

#7 Gwangmyeong (South Korea)
16 /o4/2016 – 04/09/2016
Lascaux Exhibition Hall

#8 Tokyo (Japan)
1/11/ 2016 – 19/02/2017
National Museum of Nature & Sciences, Ueno Park

#9 Sandei (Japan)
25/03/2017 – 28/05/2017
Museum of History of Tohoku

#10 Fukuoka (Japan)
10/07/2017 – 03/09/2017
National Museum of Kyushu

#11 Shanghai (China)
01/11/2017-28/02/2018
Shanghai Science & Technology Museum

#12 Johannesburg (South Africa)
17/05/2018-30/09/2018
Sci Bono Discovery Centre

# 13 Munich (Germany)
03/02/2019-09/09/2019
Olympic Park

#14 Napoli (Italy)
01/02/2020-05/07/2020
Museum National of Archaeology

# 15 Flemalle (Belgium)
04/12/2021-04/06/2022
Prehistomuseum

In 2022 Lascaux Experience tour in EU…book now for 2023 and 2024 !

A unique archaeological and geological site

Located in Dordogne, in the commune of Montignac, the Lascaux cave is a timeless and universal work, a World Heritage site dubbed the “Sistine chapel of Prehistory”, a veritable masterpiece of prehistoric parietal art. Also known as the Lascaux bestiary, its frescos represent many animals, including horses, bulls, stags,ibex as well as felines,a rhinoceros and even an imaginary figure commonly called the unicorn.