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Treasures of the Alpine Club Exhibition, Chamonix Main Town
An exhibition of the best objects in the collection of the British Alpine Club
The Alpine Club was founded in London in 1857 by a group of mountaineering friends. It contributed enormously to the discipline, club members described their climbs and immortalised Alpine landscapes. This exhibition shows some of these documents.
It features the Alpine Club's collection of paintings, engravings, books, photographs, archive documents and artifacts, many showing the Chamonix valley in the Golden Era of mountaineering. Over 50 works by 36 19th-century artists are on show at the Alpine Museum, as well as a display explaining the genesis of the sport.
Here you can find out more about the role of the British in the development of Alpine literature, art and exploration. They are closely linked to the discipline and to the Chamonix valley, where it was born 200 years ago. It was a Brit, Wyndham, who named the Mer de Glace, a Scot, Forbes, who drew the first map of the glacier and an Irishman, Adams-Reilly, who first mapped the entire Mont Blanc massif.
Venue
Alpine Museum
