The Park offers a network of tourist welcome structures formed by Museums, Visitor Centers and Information Points.
A complex museum network offers the synthesis of the environmental and cultural heritage of the Park through thematic routes inspired to the naturalistic and cultural features of its territory. An itinerary that will give the opportunity to discover the fascinating events of the protected area witnessing a thousand-year old history and preserving an extraordinary community heritage the Park Authority wants to enhance and safeguard.
The Park Museums present themselves through pictures, finds, effective descriptive panels, involving multimedia equipment, often interactive: authentic "virtual journeys" giving the opportunity to grasp the reality of the various ecosystems of the protected area, discovering the extraordinary biodiversity of a territory situated in one of the most interesting naturalistic areas in Europe and in the Mediterranean. Of particular interest the Museums dedicated to the Park wildlife, offering involving emotional experiences and promoting communication exchange activities with often unexpected and surprising results. As a matter of fact, the documental aim combines with the aim to draw children, and visitors in general, closer to a new vision of wildlife implying an active safeguard, considering in other words the issue of the presence of the animals in places characterized by a strong human pressure.
The visit to the museum becomes in this way funny and exciting, and can also be completed and integrated with sensorial experiences that from the Museum reach the mountains, wildlife areas, and naturalistic trails.
All the Museums also work as tourist information points.
In the Park Visitor Centers and in the Information Points (seasonal) it is possible to find the best approach to get in touch with the great heritage of waters, forests, plants, and animals - in other words, of biodiversity - that is also the heritage of the local communities shaping themselves in this area and conveying culture, knowledge, tales, material instruments, unique foodstuffs and handicrafts.
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Assergi Antiquarium A fascinating journey in the prehistoric world |
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Ceppo Visitor Center |
Ceppo di Rocca S. Maria | ![]() |
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Didactic Museum One Day as a Botanist |
Accumoli (RI) | ![]() |
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Information point of Capitignano |
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Mountaineering Museum Permanent exhibit on mountaineering in the Major Road District |
Prati di Tivo di Pietracamela (TE) | ![]() |
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Museum of the Chamois The structure houses an interactive museum on the Abruzzi Chamois |
Farindola (PE) | ![]() |
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Museum-Center for the Waters of Gran Sasso The cycle of water, with the formation of the mountains, the history of man, explorers, and users of the precious resource |
San Pietro di Isola del Gran Sasso (TE) | ![]() |
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Paladini Tourist Information Point Information and selling point of the Park |
Locality Paladini di Crognaleto (TE) | ![]() |
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Terre del Castellano Ecomuseum A door open on the places of traditional life |
Valle Castellana (TE) | ![]() |
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The Barony Lands Visitor Center |
Santo Stefano di Sessanio (AQ) | ![]() |
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The Museum of the Flower A journey among the vegetable diversity of the Park |
Barisciano (AQ) | ![]() |
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The Museum of the Fortifications |
Calascio (AQ) | ![]() |
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The Museum of Wood A virtual journey from the Woodland to the ancient professions |
Arischia (AQ) | ![]() |
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The Two Parks Center |
Arquata del Tronto (AP) | ![]() |
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The Wolf Museum An involving emotional experience with unexpected and surprising results |
Arsita (TE) | ![]() |
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Tirino River Visitor Center The extraordinary richness of the river and its wonderful valley |
Bussi sul Tirino (PE) | ![]() |
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Tourist information point in Castelvecchio Calvisio Information point and Park's point of sale with tourist reception service |
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Visitor Center and Show Room of Local Products in Fonte Cerreto di Assergi (AQ) |
Fonte Cerreto di Assergi (AQ) | ![]() |