Free visit of the exhibition "Sacré Mormont! An archaeological survey among the Helvetians"

Name: Free visit of the exhibition "Sacré Mormont! An archaeological survey among the Helvetians"
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée de Bibracte

What happened on the Swiss hill of Mormont, more than 2,000 years ago, and what are the hundreds of pits that were discovered there? The mystery remains (almost) complete.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free entry

Bibracte

In 2006, at Mormont, a Swiss hill at the foot of the Jura, archaeologists made a completely unexpected discovery: hundreds of pits dug into the ground, containing exceptional deposits of furniture.
This discovery indicates a large-scale occupation of the late Second Iron Age, around 100 B.C. whose remains bear witness to multiple and often enigmatic activities, very different from those traditionally encountered at the sites of this period.
For 15 years, archaeologists have been using multiple investigative techniques to try and unravel the mystery of the Mormont. Yet, even today, many grey areas remain. How to interpret the traces of human activities of this site, without comparison in the Celtic world? Who were the men and women who frequented him, and why did they sometimes engage in acts that would be considered unthinkable today? What really happened at the Mormont, more than 2100 years ago?
This exhibition takes stock of this ongoing archaeological investigation, revealing how archaeologists analyze and tell stories about their discoveries.

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.