page_title: Rock of Oëtre
section_title: Museum
hierarchical_section_title: Rock of Oëtre / Museum
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Panorama pris depuis la Roche d'Oëtre
context_page_description: The Rock of Oëtre is situated in the middle of Norman Switzerland, in the commune of Saint-Philbert-sur-Orne, not far from the border between the départements of Calvados and Orne, and almost equidistant from Thury-Harcourt and Écouché. It is one of the most prestigious lookouts in the west of France.
context_section_description: At the site's summit, around 35 metres (115 ft) from the edge, a new wooden pavilion was opened in May 2006. It offers visitors regional tourist information, a museum, library and shop, and a bar-restaurant. The museum space will be used to let visitors discover the Mountains of Normandy with an interactive landscape, legends and items about the long geological history of the oldest mountains in Europe, the Armorican Massif, from how, two thousand million years ago, they were more than 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) above sea level, to their present 417 metres (1,368 ft).
caption: Panorama taken from the Rock of Oëtre
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