Youth exhibition
Let Gabriel and Mia guide you as you discover the world of the gods and goddesses of antiquity...
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In Gallo-Roman times, the populations that inhabited Gaul added to their habits those of the Romans who conquered the territory. To find out how these populations lived, archaeologists study the traces left by them in the ground: objects, but also remains of buildings or roads, and even seeds or animal bones. The meal was an important part of the life of the Gallo-Romans, as today.
Thanks to archaeology, we can answer many questions about it:
How was the food produced? How was the food cooked?
How was the food eaten?

When was the Gallo-Roman period?

Thematic exhibitions
It's now possible to play like it used to be. Locus Ludi is a European multidisciplinary research group that studies and reconstructs ancient games that can be tested online. It is also possible today to listen to the sound of an Aurignacian flute thanks to experimental archaeology.

These extraordinary examples of archaeological reconstructions show that play, whether musical or ludic, is a particularly rich object of study. Interpretation of the remains allows us to guess at the rules, but only to imagine the many ways in which games were played in different eras.

This exhibition aims to introduce the diversity of game-related artifacts from Inrap excavations, and how they renew our understanding of ludic and musical cultures through time.  
For more than thirty years, preventive archaeology has allowed, by the number of excavations and their extent, to open many windows on the past of Clermont-Ferrand and the Clermont basin. A selection of objects testifies to the metamorphoses and continuities of this territory: tools of Paleolithic aurochs hunters, everyday objects from the Neolithic period, elegant Arvernian ceramics, merchandise labels from Augustonemetum (Clermont-Ferrand)...
Marseille is the only city in France that can claim twenty-six centuries of continuous urban history. Each period of occupation has partly covered the one that preceded it. The history of Marseille is therefore to be unearthed in the subsoil with archaeological discoveries of prehistoric occupation, site excavations of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Modern Era.

You can also discover the archaeological atlas

ARCHITEOLOGICAL ATLAS OF THE CITY OF MARSEILLE
Far from being fixed in time and space, architecture combines several goals which go, as Vitruvius reminded us in his "De architectura" in the first century BC, from the search for solidity to convenience and beauty. Today, we could probably add to this the will to establish constructions capable of ensuring the conservation and transmission of past productions. This exhibition proposes to approach this vast subject through four sections:
The materials and tools of construction:
The techniques of decoration
The functionalities of the building
The funerary architecture and memory
What is a face ? A nose, a mouth, two eyes: these are the elements that make it up, as taught to young children. During archaeological excavations, many faces have been unearthed. They reveal the fascination of societies throughout the ages for this part of the body, to which different meanings have been given.

Realistic portrait, simple sketch or even mask, the reality of the face is sometimes reproduced, sometimes questioned, according to religious beliefs and social practices.
Digging, clearing, building roads, bridges, cities: from time immemorial, men have never ceased to explore the possibilities of developing their territory. Through a selection of 30 objects from preventive excavations conducted by the Inrap in Brittany around Corseul (Côtes d'Armor) and ancient collections, this exhibition offers you a focus on the Roman road, an essential vector of the economic life of the territories during antiquity.

At that time, a vast road network was set up on the scale of the Roman Empire. Connected to river and sea routes, it favored exchanges and trade and allowed the diffusion of cultural modes and practices.
Is archaeology only about rocks? Don't be fooled by appearances. Objects unearthed during excavations that appear as simple stones often reveal a more complex reality. The mineral material, worked or transformed, is exploited in different forms and for a variety of uses. It bears witness to the life of past societies, to the exploitation of natural resources, to technological developments, to trade, to religious beliefs or even to the aesthetic concerns of populations. Sometimes tools, building materials, sometimes supports of artistic expression or elements of adornment, we invite you to discover the multiple facets of the pebbles discovered by archaeologists and which are as many objects to be studied, from Prehistory to contemporary times.
From the beginning, man has been in contact with the animal with which he shares the same living space. It is essential to his survival by providing him with food and means to cover his daily needs, such as the manufacture of bone tools. At the beginning of the Neolithic (from 6,000 to 2,200 BC in France), the domestication of certain species modifies the relationship between man and animal : it becomes a larger and controlled resource and their relationship is then more intimate. The relationship with the animal is also deeper: man contemplates it in the wild, admires its rarity, its qualities and fantasizes its virtues. The animal is sometimes observed, sometimes imagined and even divinized.
This exhibition offers you a panorama of the most diverse links that man and animals of all kinds (but also feathers and scales) have maintained and sometimes still maintain. Close relations which testify of an important debt of the man towards the fauna which it côtoie.
This exhibition devoted to the practices and representations of violence through the centuries, presents a selection of twenty-three objects from preventive archaeological excavations conducted by Inrap in recent years. Coming from different deposits, these objects testify to the richness, diversity and complexity of our relationship to violence.

We invite you to discover them!

Places of exhibition
With more than 30,000 objects, the Saint-Dizier museum presents a journey centered around archaeological, cast iron, ornithology and painting collections. Each of them illustrates the main archaeological discoveries made in the area, in particular three Frankish aristocratic tombs discovered in 2002, the rich metallurgical past of the Haute-Marne, the cast iron works of Hector Guimard and the personality of Jean-François Lescuyer, an amateur ornithologist from Saint-Dizier who assembled a unique collection of naturalized birds.
LUGDUNUM-Museum & Roman theaters is the perfect symbiosis between an archaeological site integrated into the Unesco classified perimeter, a unique architecture and exceptional collections.
It was in the 18th century that the archaeological site of Lezoux revealed the amazing history of a prodigious past. The ceramics museum tells the story of the work of potters from antiquity to the present day.
Installed in an old factory superbly rehabilitated, Lezoux has equipped itself with a place of memory equal to its archaeological heritage.
Located in a neoclassical building inaugurated in 1903 in the heart of the city of Clermont-Ferrand, the musée Bargoin offers particularly rich and original collections. It houses two departments: one devoted to archaeology and the other to textiles.

Address : 45 Rue Ballainvilliers, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand
he Sens Museum is located in the city of Sens in the French department of Yonne, in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Created in the mid-19th century, it now houses a vast collection of objects and works from all eras and brings together the collections of the Archaeological Society of Sens, donations and the treasure of the Cathedral of Saint-Etienne de Sens.

The museum has been installed since 1985 in the former palace of the archbishops of Sens, which adjoins the cathedral and the synodal palace.

Musées de Sens
Passage Moses and 135 rue des Déportés et de la Résistance
89100 Sens
The museum of the archaeological site of Mariana - Prince Rainier III of Monaco, designed by the architect Pierre-Louis Faloci, opens the view on the Romanesque church of the Canonica. Its vocation is to promote research, conserve and enhance its collections and its archaeological heritage in order to disseminate the history of the territory of Mariana, from the ancient port city to the medieval bishopric, to the public at large.
In an audacious architecture by Jean Nouvel, the Vesunna site-museum presents the Roman origins of Périgueux on the remains of a large Gallo-Roman residence, the domus of Vesone. Exceptional archaeological collections tell the story of the ancient city and the way of life of its inhabitants, the Petrucores.
What strikes you first upon entering the museum is the singular architecture, an amalgam of a grain hall built in the 19th century and a raw concrete structure in the style of a "museum of unlimited growth," a concept invented by Le Corbusier. The two architectures interact, as do the archaeology and fine arts collections.

As part of the French and international cultural landscape, France's oldest public collection, born in 1694, boasts a wealth of collections. In addition to the international reputation of its graphic art collection (more than 6000 drawings), it has an important local, Mediterranean and Egyptian archaeological heritage, numerous sculptures, ceramics, pieces of silverware and an exceptional collection of paintings representative of the main currents in the history of Western art from the end of the 15th to the 20th century.

Let yourself be surprised by the Besançon Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology, one of the most atypical museums in France.
1 place de Lagarde 88000 Epinal
On the occasion of the "Celtic?" exhibition at the Musée de Bretagne-les Champs libres [Rennes], four sculpted busts and a worked wooden bucket from the Iron Age, discovered in Trémuson in September 2019, are presented to the public for the first time. Five researchers from the institute tell the story of the itinerary of these exceptional objects from the excavation to the museum via the laboratory.

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Musée de Bretagne, les Champs libres 10 cours des Alliés, 35000 Rennes
Located in old Lyon, Gadagne houses two museums: the Museum of the History of Lyon (MHL) and the Museum of Puppetry Arts (MAM).

The MHL - Gadagne invites you to discover the history of Lyon through 4 exhibitions. "Portraits of Lyon" gives essential landmarks to understand the contemporary city. Accessible to all audiences from 5 years old, "Les Pieds dans l'eau" tells the story of the inhabitants and their waterways, in the light of environmental issues. November 17, 2022: discover the new exhibition of the museum around the industry and the worker's memory.

Unique museum of France with an international collection, the MAM - Gadagne gathers more than 300 puppets, costumes, sets of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. Many works come from contemporary companies in activity, which gives the museum a very modern and playful side. You can adopt the artists' point of view and try your hand at manipulation at the end of the tour. In the city of Punch, an essential visit not to be missed!
Located on the Avenue de Champagne, a prestigious thoroughfare in Epernay, the Champagne Wine and Regional Archaeology Museum tells the story of the Champagne region, from the formation of its soil several million years ago to the present day. It brings together collections of international scope in the heart of a modern and interactive scenography adapted to all audiences. The visit begins with the geological and paleontological history of the region. It continues with the history of human settlement in Champagne, illustrated by a rich selection of regional archaeological pieces leading the visitor from Neolithic burials to the goldsmiths of the Merovingian society, through the exceptional Celtic ornaments and Gallo-Roman pottery. The tour then turns to the wine of Champagne, a regional heritage and the jewel in the crown of the French economy. Through ten rooms, the visitor discovers an important wine collection composed of tools, machines, glassware, paintings, lithographs, posters and advertising plates tracing the evolution of the production and consumption of this iconic drink. The visit ends with a tribute to local personalities, collectors of the 19th century and the Belle Epoque who bequeathed to the museum paintings, sculptures, decorative art objects and ethnographic curiosities from around the world. The Château Perrier, a historic monument and former residence of champagne merchants, provides an exceptional architectural and landscape setting for the 2000 objects on display.
Founded in 1839, the Cour d'Or-Metz Métropole Museum is located near Saint-Etienne's Cathedral, in the heart of Metz, in a complex consisting of the former Roman baths dating from the 2nd century, the Chèvremont granary from 1457 and the former 17th century abbey of the Petits-Carmes. Until the end of the 1980s, it was the natural repository for the furniture from the excavations carried out in Metz and the surrounding area by 19th century scholars, German scientists from the two Annexations, as well as archaeologists from the Afan, and then the Inrap.

Thus, more than 20,000 archaeological objects are now preserved in the Cour d'Or museum, making it one of the richest collections in northern France. Through 16 rooms - of the 46 that the museum has - is evoked the evolution and history of the Moselle territory during antiquity.

2, rue du Haut-Poirier 57000 METZ
0387201320
http://musee.metzmetropole.fr/fr/
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In the heart of the city of Le Mans, at the junction between the Plantagenet City and the new town, is the Museum of Archaeology and History. The museum is an open and welcoming space, reconciling a resolutely contemporary architecture with the preservation of the old buildings of the Monnoyer printing house, now renovated. Through the permanent collections, the visitor discovers the history of the Sarthe region from prehistory to the end of the Middle Ages in five chapters. With a wealth of archaeological objects, some of which have been preserved since the 19th century or following excavations carried out in the area since the 1970s, the visitor discovers the way of life of our ancestors.
https://www.louvre.fr