Short circuit for the Archaeological Museum Emile CHENON
At a time when we are trying to privilege the "short circuit", and local artisanal products, we can say, with a smile, that the Emile CHENON Archaeological Museum answers perfectly to these two tendencies!
Short circuit ? Obviously, since there was a 24-hectare Gallic city on the spot, whose excavations directly fed the rooms of the museum.
Local handicrafts? Obviously, since the art objects, as well as the domestic objects, exposed in the museum, were produced by the craftsmen who worked in this Gallic city, and who thus left us direct testimonies of the Gallic and Gallo-Roman civilization of the region.
Your visit to the Emile CHENON Archaeological Museum
During your visit, you will go through different thematic rooms.
First of all, and this is logical, you will start with a room which will tell you the history of the excavations on this Gallic city, Mediolanum, with a reconstruction of a building site.
Then, a small tour through the cellar, with a reconstituted "amphora cellar", with its collection of more than 350 amphorae. This reminds us that this Gallic city practiced a very important trade with Italy in the field, among others, of the importation of amphoras.
Then, a small shock between the periods, since you will pass in a video room, just before finding yourself in the room of the Gallic oppidum!
Then comes the niche with the statuettes, and a reconstitution of the Gallic habitat, and the craft industry of the time, with the weaving loom, the monetary workshop, and the products of the millstone quarry of Saint-Christophe le Chaudry.
And finally you will arrive in the superb Gallo-Roman room, with, among other things, a showcase of bronze treasures.
These treasures had been deposited as offerings at the bottom of a water well. The one in which they were found, along with nearly 6000 objects, was excavated in 2012.
Emile CHENON Archaeological Museum
10-12, Rue de la Victoire
18 370 Châteaumeillant
Tel : 02 48 61 49 24
musee@chateaumeillant.fr
http://museechenon.e-monsite.com/
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