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GRM Gallo-Romeins Museum Tongeren
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The Gallo-Roman Museum (http://galloromeinsmuseum.be/en/homepage) is the largest archaeological museum in Flanders with around 150,000 visitors annually. The museum doesn’t only present treasures from the Gallo-Roman period, the permanent collection also tells the universal story of man in the Limburg region: from prehistory to the end of the Roman period. More than 2,000 objects from the museum’s own collection has been beautifully presented in a highly-original set. In 2011 the Gallo-Roman Museum of Tongeren won the European Museum of the Year Award.
The Gallo-Roman Museum is situated in the former capital of the Civitas Tungrorum: Atuatuca Tungrorum or later on named Municipium Tungrorum. With it’s 150 ha it was the largest civitas of North-western Europe. Tongeren was the only city of it’s kind within the civitas.
The civitas Tungrorum was established during the reign of Augustus as part of the Roman province of Gallia Belgica; the oldest evidence of Roman presence dates to 12/9 BC. After the establishment of the Germanic provinces during Domitian’s reign, the civitas was transferred to Germania Inferior. In the second century AD, a prestigious town wall 4,500m long, encircled the urban centre characterized by a regular street grid. In the fourth century AD, a new town wall 2,600m long, was built to defend the most elevated part of the civitas capital. Archaeological excavations over the last 50 years have revealed monumental architectural structures and many splendid objects. - Homepage
- https://galloromeinsmuseum.be/en/
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Etruscanning in 3D
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