Visit: the Gallic treasure of Tayac

Name: Visita: el tesoro galo de Tayac
Start: 2023-09-16T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée d'Aquitaine

It was in the course of December 1893 that a labourer unearthed two terracotta vases containing a set of gold objects: a massive gold torque weighing 762 g, a kind of big rigid collar or...

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

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©L. Gauthier, mairie de Bordeaux

It was in the course of December 1893 that a ploughman unearthed two terracotta vases containing a set of gold objects: a torque of solid gold weighing 762 g, a kind of large open rigid necklace, 73 small gold ingots weighing each 7.30 g, a gold wire coiled in spiral, an oval and flat ingot, a square ingot, and about 325 Gallic gold coins. Unfortunately, as soon as it was discovered, the treasure was scattered and part of it was rebuilt...

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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.