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National Museum of Roman Art

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Sculptures on display in the National Museum of Roman Art © Turespaña
Mosaic. National Museum of Roman Art ©Turespaña

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A Roman city in the westernmost corner of the Empire.

The museum offers a synthesis of life in one of the main colonies in Roman Hispania, Augusta Emerita, promoted after the supremacy of Lusitania, and which subsequently became the first effective capital of Hispania.

It houses numerous articles found at the archaeological site in Mérida, which has been awarded the World Heritage designation by the UNESCO. The National Museum of Roman Art is located in a building by Rafael Moneo that is a reference in contemporary museum architecture. With a display of emblematic items including Roman mosaics, sculptures, epigraphs and documents, it shows all aspects of the everyday life in a colony, Augusta Emerita, founded by Augustus after one of the episodes in the Cantabrian Wars, and which represents one of the great examples of the Romanisation process of Hispania.

Essential works

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Aion-Chronos

This is part of a series of sculptures of gods who probably formed a sacred group in a shrine or temple.
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Veiled Augustus

This unique piece was found in what was known as the Aula Sacra, in the peristyle of the Roman Theatre in Mérida.
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Galloping horse

This is thought to have been used as a votive offering or decoration on a large building.
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Bell

This object is made of clay and represents a male figure with a grotesque head, a pronounced aquiline nose and wearing a pointed hat.
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Column from the Temple of Diana

Its stuccoed surface (a covering of white plaster and stickwater) is in exceptionally well conserved.
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Bowl

This is a magnificent piece from the museum’s spectacular glass collection.
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Genius of the Senate

This statuette is considered to be a representation of the Genius of the Roman Senate, due to its similarity with other images stamped on coins and reliefs. It was found in the temple of Diana in Mérida.
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Gypsy

Depiction in marble of a young Roman girl with a fringe of ringlets and two longer locks at each side, nicknamed 'the little gypsy girl'.
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Jupiter Ammon

This decoration served to praise and exalt the figure of the emperor.
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Tombstone

This type of large tombstone was in the past found attached to funerary monuments in which one or more people were buried.
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Temporary exhibitions

Exhibition: The Reefs of Time. Archaeology, photography, and literature in Mérida

Showing visitors how the passage of time affects the monuments and town of Mérida. This is what the exhibition 'The Reefs of Time', at the National Museum of Roman Art, sets out to do.
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Exhibition: Games and Toys in Augusta Emerita

The National Museum of Roman Art in Mérida has an exhibition in its temporary gallery of the games of ancient Rome. As well as reproductions of toys from the period, the show explores their meaning and the archaeological context in which they were found.
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Collections

The museum's collection is part of the collective catalogue of the Digital Network of Spanish Museum Collections (CERES), conceived as a space for dissemination which enables visitors to browse the various museum collections using the identifying features of each item (author, type of object, iconography, etc.).

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