The museum reopens to the public on 17 October 2025.

Imagine stepping into a place where science meets emotion, where the mountains of the Aosta Valley tell in their own voice their millennial history and their fragility in the face of change.

The Museum The Alps for Kids, housed within the Opera Vittorio at the Forte di Bard, is an immersive journey into the heart of the Alps, designed for schools, families and nature enthusiasts. It is a path that invites reflection on climate change and its effects on alpine ecosystems: glacier retreat, diminished snow cover, rising temperatures and the transformations these bring.

From the moment you enter, a large geodesic tent welcomes visitors in an immersive atmosphere of sounds, images and lights: here one receives the first “coordinates” to begin exploration. The path then unfolds through different halls, each dedicated to one of the four symbolic peaks of the Aosta Valley - Monte Rosa, Matterhorn, Gran Paradiso and Mont Blanc - and their glacial zones.

In the Monte Rosa Hall, space seems made of ice and light: transparent stelae evoke the fragility of the alpine cryosphere, guiding visitors to discover the water cycle and glacier formation. A large ice core reveals how researchers read climate history within the ice.

The Matterhorn Hall delves into permafrost and alpine orogenesis, intertwined with the strength of rocks and their constant transformation. Then, unexpectedly, a snowstorm envelops visitors in a sensory experience marking the passage from the mountain of ice to life.

The Gran Paradiso Hall is an immersion in nature: sounds, objects and projections narrate the rhythm of the seasons, while an interactive table leads to the discovery of the animals and plants that inhabit Italy’s oldest national park. Finally, in the Mont Blanc Hall, visitors face the major changes the Alps are undergoing: rising temperatures and glacier melt.

Two special spaces enrich the visit: a game room for schools, where youngsters compete in a role-playing game about mountain resources, surrounded by the warming stripes of climatologist Ed Hawkins - a visual representation of global warming - and an immersive room to relax and enjoy Alpine panoramas.

Outside, the journey continues in the open air: a playground for children, a climbing wall shaped to resemble the profile of Monte Rosa, and a picnic area round out this experience of discovery and wonder, combining nature, science and emotion.