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.

[1] Completed in 1980, the raw concrete and glass building is the work of architect and urban planner Roland Simounet.

[2] 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.)

The tour ends with the presentation of a large dugout canoe from the Carolingian period, discovered in an old channel of the Seine at Noyen-sur-Seine (Seine-et-Marne).

The Musée de Préhistoire d'Île-de-France offers a flexible programme that caters to the interests and needs of school groups, adults, children and people with disabilities.