Last updated on 21 February 2025
The Chauvet Cave Pont d’Arc has benefited over the past few months froma new website that beautifully pays tribute to this unique place a UNESCO World Heritage Site since last year.
The Ministry of Culture, the prime contractor for this multimedia project, did the right thing. and offers an ideal resource to dive into this incredible place where men left their mark more than 36,000 years ago. Ideal, because the site is aimed at all audiences and especially at the world of education, which will find material to propose discoveries and activities on prehistory.
This Chauvet Cave was not discovered until 18 December 1994. A recent discovery for a cavity that is one of the oldest Paleolithic caves in the world, with parietal works dating back some 36,000 years.
The new site was inaugurated on the occasion of the opening of the the Cave Bridge d“Arc, replica of the original cave which is of course inaccessible to the public.
This multimedia site is a great success. Realization, navigation and ergonomics are impeccable. We let ourselves be guided through the chapters and we are surprised to explore this or that corner of the site as a real speleologist of the net. The user experience was well thought out to put form at the service of the substance. Congratulations.
The site of Chauvet Cave consists of four large parts All illustrated by many high-definition images, videos as well as 360° navigations. We see here all that multimedia can bring to this type of pedagogical project.
The four parts are as follows:
Discover the cave offers a virtual tour of the various rooms and spaces, as well as numerous documents on the discovery itself and on the geographical and historical environment. The site succeeds in particular through videos and interviews to report on the immense emotion felt by the three speleologists Éliette Brunel, Jean - Marie Chauvet and Christian Hillaire who discovered the site.
The replica of the cave unveils the project of this cave bis that combines scientific and artistic restitution.
Other looks is a good idea that gives voice to artists and writers who tell "their" cave.
Resources finally brings together an imposing Media Library, useful links, a bibliography and a glossary.
A great achievement for a dive into the history of art and humanity. When multimedia illuminates an artistic representation that has been buried for more than 35,000 years, until a very short time ago, at the bottom of a rocky cavity.
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