Musée Saint-Raymond
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Entrance to Saint-Raymond Museum |
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Location within France
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| Type | Art museum, Archeological museum, Historic site |
| Curator | Evelyne Ugaglia |
| Website | saintRaymond.toulouse.fr |
The Musée Saint-Raymond (in English, Saint-Raymond museum) is a museum located in Toulouse, France, specializing in antiquities.
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History
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, 60km south-west of Toulouse. The villa was populated from the first to the fourth century.[3]
Labours of Hercules
Busts of Gods
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
- ^ "Fréquentation 2006-2010 des Musées de France - Midi-Pyrénées". 3 November 2011. http://www.data.gouv.fr/donnees/view/Fr%C3%A9quentation-2006-2010-des-Mus%C3%A9es-de-France---Midi-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es-30382359?xtmc=mus%C3%A9e+midi-pyr%C3%A9nn%C3%A9es&xtcr=1. (French)
- ^ "Nécropoles [Necropolis]". Musée Saint-Raymond. http://saintraymond.toulouse.fr/Necropoles_a48.html. (French)
- ^ a b c "La villa romaine de Chiragan [Roman villa of Chiragan]". Musée Saint-Raymond. http://saintraymond.toulouse.fr/La-villa-romaine-de-Chiragan_a49.html. (French)