LAPIDARY MUSEUM
Read moreFound 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.