Museo Alpino Duca degli Abruzzi

Located in the Guides' House in Courmayeur, it was opened in 1929 by Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, the Duke of Abruzzi, during an exhibition which unveiled a plaque in memory of the guide Alessio Fenoillet.

The museum is divided over two floors: the room on the ground floor hosts the offices of the Alpine Guides with a 3D, plastic map of the Mount Blanc massif, some period photographs and historic ice-axes; a glass cabinet hosts a collection of books on the shelters and summits with notes taken by the mountaineers and guide records. Some of these are of particular historic importance

because they contain notes recorded by customers during their first ascents. Relics worth noting include the poles used by the Courmayeur Guides (L. Grivel., A. Pennard, A. Ottoz, O. Ottoz) in their attempts to conquer the Southern Slope of the Aiguille Noire in Peuterey during the Thirties. The room was designed by the architect Aldo Cosmacini and was decorated with ceiling panels painted by the Valdostane artist Franco Balan.

The rooms on the next floor include displays of itinerary photographs (exhibited in collaboration with the Region of Valle d’Aosta) and areas dedicated to polar expeditions undertaken by the Duke of Abruzzi (TipliZ Bay 1900) and the Alpine materials illustrating the evolution of mountaineering methods.