Alpine Museum of the Duke of Abruzzi (Museo Alpino Duca degli Abruzzi) description and photos - Italy: Courmayeur (Topic)

Alpine Museum of the Duke of Abruzzi (Museo Alpino Duca degli Abruzzi) description and photos - Italy: Courmayeur. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Museo Alpino Duca degli Abruzzi.

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Alpine Museum of the Duke of Abruzzi, located in one of the houses of the town of Courmayeur in the Italian region of Val d'Aosta, was opened in 1929 at the initiative of Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Abruzzi. At the same time, a commemorative plaque was inaugurated in honor of Alessio Fenoye, the guide.

Opened at the beginning of the 20th century and dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Courmayeur Mountain Guides Society, the museum is housed in the recently renovated historic House of the Guides. Its rooms have been furnished according to the tastes of that era. Today in the museum you can see interesting photographs and exhibitions dedicated to the history of the development of the mountains.

The Alpine Museum of the Duke of Abruzzi occupies two floors. The ground floor houses the offices of the Alpine guides and a 3D map of the majestic Mont Blanc massif, some historical photographs and old ice axes. In the "glass office" one can see a collection of books about mountain shelters and conquered peaks, with notes made by climbers and their guides. Some of these books are of particular interest, since the notes in them were made during the first ascents of the Alpine four-thousanders. Equally noteworthy are the poles with which the Courmayeur mountain guides (Grievel, Pennar, Ottoz) stormed the southern slopes of Ayzhui Noir in Petri in the 1930s. The Glass Study was designed by the architect Aldo Cosmacini and its vaults were painted by the Valdostan artist Franco Balan.

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