Archaeology France

Found in the Jesuit chapel, the Lapidaire Museum has some collections of Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Gallo-Roman and Egyptian arts from the Calvet museum. It has recently been refurbished to permit the public to see some articles that have been preserved for more than fifty years, while waiting for the creation of a room dedicated to Antiquity. You can discover several chapels dedicated to the Greek collections, including monumental vases and an exceptional collection of funerary steles and votive reliefs, from the excavations undertaken by the Fondation Calvet in Vaison-la-Romaine 1838-1852. The baroque chapel and its stone decor are also worth a visit. A Greek chapel was opened in 2013 with the presentation of Corinthian and Attic vases, classic and Hellenistic terra-cottas from Asia Minor, Egypt, Greece and Magna Graecia. Among the latter, figures a beautiful male head that was part of a statue that dates from the first half of the third century BC.

The son of a shipowner living in Nantes, Thomas Dobrée (1810-1895) devoted his life to building up an eclectic collection. In the heart of Nantes, the Dobrée Museum brings together two remarkable buildings: the Dobrée Palace, in the neo-medieval style, with its 30-meter high tower, former episcopal residence, and the Touche Manor, former episcopal residence. Its archaeological collections, rich in 135 000 works, are exceptional. Closed for renovation, it will reopen its doors in 2024. The Dobrée Museum will reinvent itself and present permanent and temporary exhibitions. The auditorium of the new Dobrée will be able to be a conference room, a performance hall or an exhibition hall. To learn more and follow the museum's news, visit the website. The gardens remain open every day.

In a rampart house, you will find the museum of Arts and Crafts and traditional museum of Prehistory, retrospective of 38,000 years of prehistory tourrettane exposing the heritage found in the caves of Merle and Baume Périgaud dating from the Upper Palaeolithic human remains, ornaments, tools, animal remains....