Musée Saint-Raymond

Musée Saint-Raymond

Saint-Raymond Museum
Location within Toulouse
Coordinates 43°36′28″N 1°26′28″E / 43.607867°N 1.441125°E / 43.607867; 1.441125
Type Art museum, Archeological museum, Historic site
Curator Evelyne Ugaglia
Website saintRaymond.toulouse.fr

The Musée Saint-Raymond (in English, Saint-Raymond museum) established in 1891, is a museum located in Toulouse, France, specializing in antiquities.

Visitor figures

Source: www.data.gouv.fr[1]

Collections

Early Christian necropolis

The early Christian necropolis was discovered in the excavation under the museum between 1994 and 1996 and contains a lime-kiln, about a hundred sepulchres and severals inscriptions.[2]

Chiragan villa

The first floor of the museum contains finds from the Chiragan villa in Martres-Tolosane, 60 km south-west of Toulouse. The villa was populated from the first to the fourth century.[3]

Labours of Hercules

Copies of Greek sculptures

Emperors

The collection of Roman emperors busts in the second largest in France, after the one of the Louvre.[3] These sculptures were discovered as early as 1826 and represent Roman emperors, two of their wives and nowadays unknown people of power.[3]

References

  1. "Fréquentation 2006-2010 des Musées de France - Midi-Pyrénées". data.gouv.fr (in French). 3 November 2011.
  2. "Nécropoles" [Necropolis] (in French). Musée Saint-Raymond.
  3. 1 2 3 "La villa romaine de Chiragan" [Roman villa of Chiragan]. saintraymond.toulouse.fr (in French). Musée Saint-Raymond.

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