Situated to Turin, on the hill where there is the Convent of the Cappuccini, in a paronamica position that concurs to observe, from the called turret Lookout-post, very 240 km. of the chain of the Alps: from the Monviso to the Mount Rose!

The Museum has been founded in 1874 between the first associates of the Italian Alpine Club, founded from Quintino Saddleback. There are objects donates to you from the Duca di Savoia after the shipment of the polar Star.

It knows are dedicated them to various aspects of the mountain: the Guides, the nature, the atmosphere mount. The cliffs and the minerals. The birds of the atmosphere mount and alpine, the mammals, the alpine flora, the natural parks, the rupestri recordings. Manufatti in wood and the handicraft products. A plan is dedicated to the alpine activity and its development in the time, with the deepening of the history of the Italian Alpine Club; there are also relative objects and history to European explorations, in particular to the Himalaiana chain. In it knows it XVII are of the porthole through which it is possible to observe photographies executed from Vittorio Saddleback on alpine tops, himalaiane and caucasiche.

To finally one knows it you with the collection of models of alpine shelters and with the description of techniques of gone back alpine, with relati technical tools to you. To notice the model that represents the old Hut Observatory Daisy realized on the Gnifetti Tip (to quota 4,551 meters), of the past century.