Saturday 23 May, 20:00

Passed

Conditions

Free entry, booking recommended

May 2026

Saturday 23
- 20:00 - 23:59

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Intellectual impairment

Visual impairment

Psychic impairment

Motor impairment

Musée de l'Aurignacien

Avenue Benabarre, 31420 Aurignac

Haute-Garonne

Occitanie

Musical Echoes of Prehistory

Name: Musical Echoes of Prehistory
Start: 2026-05-23T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-23T23:59:00+02:00
Location: Musée de l'Aurignacien

The Saint-Gaudens Conservatory of Music is taking up residence in the museum for this major European event.

Saturday 23 May, 20:00

Passed

Conditions

Free entry, booking recommended

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Intellectual impairment

Visual impairment

Psychic impairment

Motor impairment

Musée de l'Aurignacien

European Night of Museums in Aurignac

The Saint-Gaudens Conservatory of Music is taking up residence in the museum for this major European event. During the evening, discover the museum’s prehistoric collections set to the rhythm of clarinets and saxophones.

Programme:

8:30 pm: Concert by the clarinet and saxophone teacher
9:00 pm: Concert by the clarinet and saxophone teacher
9:30 pm: Concert by the clarinet and saxophone teacher
During the evening: Flash guided tours of the museum’s collections.

May 2026

Saturday 23
- 20:00 - 23:59

Additionnal information

Types of events

Show / concert

Specificities

No selection

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Conditions for participation

Free entrance

Type of audience

All audiences

About the location

Musée de l'Aurignacien

Avenue Benabarre, 31420 Aurignac

Haute-Garonne

Occitanie

The story begins in 1852, not far from Aurignac. Jean-Baptiste Bonnemaison retrieves bones from a rabbit burrow. As he digs further, he uncovers the entrance to a rock shelter containing a collective burial and remains of extinct animals.

In 1860, renowned paleontologist Édouard Lartet discovers, scattered in the ashes of a hearth, flint tools and reindeer antler implements — meal remnants left by a group gathered around the fire — along with fragments of cave bear, mammoth, cave hyena, and woolly rhinoceros. Lartet believed a ritual meal was held with each burial.

This major discovery definitively proved the existence of prehistoric humans, far beyond the few millennia described in the Bible. After intense scientific debate, in 1906, Aurignac gave its name to the Aurignacian culture.

Conditions

May 2026

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Musikalische Klänge über der Vorgeschichte

Conditions

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Europäische Nacht der Museen in Aurignac

Programm:

Musical Echoes of Prehistory

Conditions

This event includes accessibility accommodations

European Night of Museums in Aurignac

Programme:

Soffi musicali sulla preistoria

Conditions

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Notte europea dei musei ad Aurignac

Programma:

Souffles musicaux sur la Préhistoire

Conditions

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Nuit européenne des musées à Aurignac

Au programme :

Soplos musicales sobre la prehistoria

Conditions

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Noche Europea de los Museos en Aurignac

Programa:

May 2026