Narbonne Archaeological Museum

The archaeological museum occupies a couple floors in one section of the palais of archives. To our pleasant surprise, it included much more than the Roman bits we expected. Everything was from local sites.

The Empire at Hadrian's death, Hadrian being one of the Five
Good Emperors and therefore a personal favorite; also the
maximum extent of the Empire; click to enlarge and see how
current place names evolved from Roman ones 

Some nice reconstructed mosaics

Among the best parts, I thought, were displays on Roman
construction methods...here a predecessor to dry wall

Roofing

The hard work of reconstructing paintings from
the thousands of bits uncovered

Among the better ones

Most are shards or less

The best: Victory and Genius, and upper right, a bust of Apollo

Landscape, sort of

Among the Greek pieces found in Narbonne: preparing to do
a triple back-flip/cannonball off the 40m tower...

 

Thousands of years before the discovery of Melmac

Oil lamps

Nice glass

And quicker than you can say "Ad Majorem
Gloriam Dei" we are in the Medieval section

You can tell because of their great sense of humor

And mastery of biology

And now, shazam!, we are in the paleolithic section with
some seriously nice cave and bone carvings 

Trepanation, a cultural universal; not covered by Medicare,
however

I want one of these

Next slide, please

And back into the Medieval/Roman era

And ending with a seriously nice, geometrically interesting floor
mosaic