This beautiful museum is located in the old Chamonix Palace, which was among the first 3 to be built in Chamonix at the beginning of the 20th century. Through this museum, you can learn about many important stations that the city passed through. The museum also shows an important group of great changes that occurred in the valley between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, since the beginning of mountain climbing to the conquest of Mont Blanc and others, and you can also enjoy watching pictures, drawings and maps. And many ancient things, as the museum contains 13,000 pieces that combine the history of the city from the eighteenth century until the mid-twentieth century.