Roman museum, Archaeological museum in Augst, Switzerland.
The Roman Museum in Augst holds objects from an ancient city that once stood here during Roman times. The rooms contain pottery, coins, jewelry, weapons, and everyday items that archaeologists have excavated from the ground.
The settlement was founded about 2000 years ago and served as an important trading point in Roman Switzerland. After Roman times ended, the site lay forgotten until archaeologists in the 1800s began uncovering the ruins.
The 1954/1955 reconstruction beside the museum reproduces one house of an insula at 1:1 scale, furnished with Roman originals and copies. Its street front holds a smithy, a butcher's shop and a thermopolium, a fast-food counter; behind lie a planted U-shaped peristyle with a lararium shrine, a kitchen with oven and Roman toilet, and a bath suite of apodyterium, frigidarium, tepidarium and caldarium with hypocaust heating.
The entrance leads you through several exhibition rooms arranged in a logical way that is easy to follow. The building is wheelchair accessible, and on nice days a walk over the archaeological outdoor site is worthwhile.
The museum sits directly above the remains of the old city, so when you visit you literally stand in archaeological layers. The outdoor site shows visible foundations of houses and temples that you can explore yourself.
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