Archaeological Museum Nîmes, Archaeological museum in Nîmes, France
The Archaeological Museum of Nîmes holds over five thousand artifacts across a spacious area, with multimedia installations that tell the city's story through archaeological discoveries. The collection spans different periods and shows how the region developed from its earliest settlement through the Middle Ages.
The museum was founded in 1896 to preserve archaeological finds discovered during early excavations in the city. Over the decades, the collection has grown steadily and now displays objects spanning more than two thousand years.
The museum's library and meeting rooms belong to the École antique de Nîmes, a learned society founded in 1920 on the initiative of Gustave Domjean, deputy for public education. It holds monthly winter lectures and a week of summer sessions, and publishes an annual bulletin, often reproducing the lecture texts.
The museum occupies part of the former Jesuit college south of the old town, not the glass building facing the amphitheatre. Its collections moved to the Musée de la Romanité in 2018. The École antique de Nîmes holds its winter lectures here monthly and a summer session in July.
The museum's collections moved in 2018 to the Musée de la Romanité, opposite the Roman arenas; the archaeological museum itself occupies part of the former Jesuit college south of the old town. Its learned society, the École antique de Nîmes, founded in 1920, still holds monthly winter lectures and a week of summer visits, and publishes an annual bulletin.
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