Free visit of the exhibition "Piolet and rifle. 90 years of military mountain in Chamonix"

Name: Free visit of the exhibition "Piolet and rifle. 90 years of military mountain in Chamonix"
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Maison de la Mémoire et du Patrimoine

In this exhibition, discover the history of the Military School of High Mountain established in Chamonix since 1932.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

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In this exhibition, discover the history of the Military School of High Mountain established in Chamonix since 1932. In charge of training soldiers capable of fighting in the mountains, it is also home to the French Military Ski Team and the High Mountain Military Group, an elite troop of military mountaineering.

About the location

Maison de la Mémoire et du Patrimoine

90, rue des Moulins, 74400 Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

Haute-Savoie
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

In 2002, the town of Chamonix acquired the Maison Baud (name of the former owner). This building, built in the second half of the 19th century, has a very simple characteristic regional architecture with a three-sided cover referring to the ancestral farms of Haute-Savoie. City Council decided to renovate this building at the meeting of June 23, 2006\. In 2010, the Culture Committee responsible for choosing the assignment of this house decided on the creation of a House of Memory and Heritage. The Maison de la Mémoire et du Patrimoine is a lively and open welcome centre designed to allow everyone to familiarize themselves with the heritage of the Chamonix Valley and make it their own. This house is a place of:
* Preservation of audio, oral and photographic archives collected by the City Memoirs service
* exploitation of these archives through interpretive exhibitions and cultural actions - consultation and research: these archives, once classified and digitized, are accessible to a