Lugdunum (museum)
Lugdunum, formerly known as the Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon-Fourvière or Museum of Roman Civilisation, is a museum of Gallo-Roman civilisation in Lyon. Previously presented at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon and the Antiquarium, the municipal Gallo-Roman collection was transferred to a new building designed by Bernard Zehrfuss and opened in 1975, near the city's Roman theatre and odeon, on a hill known as Fourvière, located in the heart of the Roman city.
Internally, it is formed of a concrete spiral ramp descending and branching out into the display rooms. It is managed and operated by the Metropolis of Lyon jointly with the archaeological museum of Saint-Romain-en-Gal. As well as displaying its own permanent collections of Roman, Celtic and pre-Roman material, a plan-relief of the ancient town and scale models of its major monuments such as the [Antique Antique theatre of Fourvière|theatre of Fourvière|theatre] and the Odeon, it also regularly hosts temporary exhibitions. On November 8, 2017, the museum was renamed Lugdunum.
Circus Mosaic
Discovered in the Ainay district in 1806, this mosaic shows a circus during a chariot race, making it one of the few ancient representations of such a race.Other objects
- the Gallic Coligny calendar
- the silver Lyon cup, decorated with images of Gallic gods
- fragments of the decoration of the Altar of Rome and Augustus, from the federal sanctuary of the three Gauls
- the Lyon Tablet, with a speech by Claudius
- large mosaics such as the
- the Taurobolic Altar, dedicated in 160 to restore the health of Antoninus Pius
- many large Dionysiac sarcophagi, including the Sarcophagus of the Triumph of Bacchus and
- the Lyon-Vaise Hoard of dishes, jewellery and silver statuettes buried during a 3rd-century Germanic invasion