Nyon Roman Museum home

	the Nyon Roman Museum
Visit the Museum's own web site at http://www.mrn.ch
for information about the history of the museum, its site and the collection

	rue Maupertuis, Nyon, Switzerland
Local and Canton government agencies concerned with archaeology are involved when building permits are issued, and a representative of the Archaeological Service is always nearby when digging begins.	The people of Nyon have always had a close relationship with the past, because each generation has enlarged, remodeled, reconstructed, or otherwise built upon the first urbanization: the Roman Colonia Iulia Equestris (Noviodunum).	Whenever a hole is dug in the ground, to remodel an older building or to begin a new construction, to repair or replace sewers or streets, there is a chance that Roman or medieval remains will be found.
The Nyon Roman Museum is financed and run by the city of Nyon, and is responsible for preserving archaeological finds in the district of Nyon


Click here to find out more about archaeology in Nyon today	Click here to find out about one of the agencies working with the Canton of Vaud, Archeodunum	Click here to see other pictures of the outside of the Museum


Inside the Museum
The crane model	The basilica construction model	Special Exhibit: La Pierre en Images (4.2000 - 4.2001)	Special Exhibit: LVMIERE! L'éclairage dans l'antiquité (5.2003-4.2004)


Visit the museum with Class 5P	Experimental Archaeologists from ACTA at the Journées du Patriomoine September 2004	Follow this link to the MRN's page about the Special Exhibit "Mothers and young children in Roman times" http://www.mrn.ch/English/activites.htm	Temporary Exhibit: Nouveaux venus Newcomers in the Roman Museum (June through October 2004)
		7 October 2004 to 24 April 2005 "Giving and receiving life – a path of pitfalls but also of emotions and happiness…whether 2000 years ago or today!" This page is a good resource for information about family life, mothering,and childhood.

*Read (in French) accounts in the local newspaper, La Côte, of recent finds, and the work of the Museum.*
"Volunteers clean a mountain of pot shards" 27 August 2003	"Roman drains and colors" 17 September 2002	"Cremation burials and a wooden tub are discovered" 4 November 03	"Has the wall of a Roman palace been discovered?" 4 July 2002
"Romans playing hide and seek" 8 April 2003	"Recent discoveries featured in a new exhibition" 27 June 2004		Use Babelfish.com to translate a web page from French to English. http://babelfish.altavista.com/

This page was updated on 2 December, 2004 by K. Epps

Unless otherwise mentioned, all photos are by Katharine Epps.
Sauf mention contraire les photos sont de Katharine Epps

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