Musee Archeologique de Nice-Cimiez

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This site museum is located on the hill of Cimiez, ancient city of Cemenelum, capital of the roman territory of the Alpes Maritimae. This major archaeological site shows the remains of three complete thermal complexes (1st to 3rd century), streets, a residential area with its shops, as well as an amphitheater. There is also a paleo-Christian group consisting of a cathedral and a baptistery corresponding to a last manifestation of urban life in Cemenelum (from the fifth century). The museum, inaugurated in January 1989, succeeds the first site museum created in 1960 in the villa of Arènes, current museum Matisse. The collections concern the ages of the metals, the Antiquity and develop until the high Middle Ages. They evoke the life of Cemenelum and the province of the Alps Maritimae, through the many objects discovered during archaeological excavations from 1950 to 1969 in the site acquired by the municipality of Nice, but also beyond.