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17 and 18 September 2022Passed
September 2022
Saturday 17
10:00 - 18:00
Sunday 18
10:00 - 18:00

Musée de Bibracte

2 route Jacques-Gabriel Bulliot, 71990 Saint-Léger-sous-Beuvray
  • Saône-et-Loire
  • Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Self-guided tour of the Bibracte Museum

We invite you to visit the museum on a journey back two millennia
17 and 18 September 2022Passed
Bibracte, Antoine Maillier

We invite you to a journey back in time of two millennia, to immerse yourself in a pivotal period that sees the appearance of large agglomerations in a vast space of temperate Europe, the structuring of territories and the intensification of craft production and trade.
Bibracte is the perfect example of what is called an oppidum, that is to say a vast fortified city which suddenly appeared in the second century BC, at the same time as two hundred others, It is impossible to say that the inhabitants of this vast area recognized each other as a common identity.
Who were the inhabitants of these oppida? How was their society organized? How have archaeologists contributed to resurrecting this key phase of Europe’s urbanization? And above all, how can we explain the numerous similarities between these sites, which are hundreds of kilometres apart? The museum answers all these questions.
All the exhibits are contemporary with Bibracte. Some have been borrowed from European museums, or copied from some of their most iconic pieces. Many are the result of excavations on Mount Beuvray. They all portray Bibracte and his time, characterized by the proliferation of agricultural, industrial, commercial, political and religious activities.

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Visite libre
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About the location

Musée de Bibracte
2 route Jacques-Gabriel Bulliot, 71990 Saint-Léger-sous-Beuvray
  • Saône-et-Loire
  • Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Bibracte is the name of the capital of Eduens, one of the most powerful people at the time of the Gallic Wars. This fortified city built at the top of one of the climaxes of Morvan, the mount Beuvray, is searched every summer since 1984\. Protection and emphasising of the vestiges of the oppidum establish(constitute) a major stake in which contemporary architecture supplies answers innovative and adapted. On the site, an audacious(adventurous) shelter protects the vestiges of the monumental centre which includes one of the most old(former) Roman basilicas identified north of the Alps: conceived(designed) by the architect Paul Andreu, structure alloys reversibility, modularity, adaptation to climatic and environmental constraints and respect for vestiges. At the foot of the site, the museum presents the results(profits) of archaeological researches(searches), in a resolutely contemporary architectural case, created by Pierre-Louis Faloci: this realisation which reconciles modernity and environmental integration and that spins the metaphor of archaeology cost to the architect to be prize-winner of the Carpenter's square of money(silver) in 1996\. The narrow association of the cabinet Faloci in the renovation of the permanent muséographie finished(ended) in 2013 assures(insures) the aesthetic coherence of the set(group) while showing the relevance of choices(selections) operated 20 years earlier at the time of the construction of the building(ship): those of an adjustable building, capable of evolving to the rhythm of the archaeological heritage which it contributes to reveal. Bibracte is also a natural site of exception, labelled "Big(Great) Site of France" since 2008.
Tags
Espace naturel, parc, jardin, Musée, salle d'exposition, Tourisme et handicap, Monument historique, Site archéologique
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