Burdigala and the Gallian Palace: from the Aquitaine Museum to the remains

Name: Burdigala and the Gallian Palace: from the Aquitaine Museum to the remains
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée d'Aquitaine

From the museum’s ancient collections to the remains of this ancient amphitheatre, David Hourcade, a site archaeologist, takes you back to the days of gladiators and Burdigala.

Saturday 17 September 2022, 14:00Passed

Conditions

Free. Registration required. 2h tour.

Registration

©Palais Gallien

The urban archaeology of recent years has made it possible to better know this great urban center that was Bordeaux during antiquity, and in particular one of its emblematic monuments still visible: the Gallian Palace. Of ancient collections
from the museum to the remains of this ancient amphitheatre, David Hourcade, an archaeologist who specializes in the site, takes you back to the days of gladiators and Burdigala.

About the location

Musée d'Aquitaine

20 cours Pasteur, 33000 Bordeaux

Gironde
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Because of prestigious character of its collections, the museum of Aquitaine installed(settled) in the premises(places) of the old(former) Faculty(Power) of the Letter of Bordeaux, became a patrimonial reference in France. Kissing(Embracing) so diverse domains as archaeology or regional ethnology but also extra-European civilisations, it is also an encyclopaedic museum as shown by the big(great) wealth of its temporary exhibitions(exposures). The museum defines itself today at once as «museum of heritage »which presents collections of a big(great) interest and as «museum of civilisation» which questions the past to answer contemporary questions.