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Arles:
Archaeological Museum

The Arles Antique museum in the heart of Provence: a place for centuries of history.

The Arles Antique museum, which opened in March 1995, presents all the richness
of the Arles collections, conspicuously displayed in a contemporary building (conceived by the architect Henri Ciriani)
in the middle of a park on the banks on the river Rhône.

A visit through the museum is a reminder of the history of Arles, of the prehistory until the early Christian period.
The collections are particularly rich in Augustan sculpture art works, in mosaic and especially sarcophagus
carved from the IV^th and V^th centuries AD. The models make it possible to understand the aspect of the big monuments
in Arles at the time of their construction: Amphitheatre, Theatre, Circus, Forum, etc.

The visitor will discover more than 1,300 objects and works.

This museum was a long history to us. We were first contacted in 1984, and we were chosen as the only model maker
for the contest of building architecture, and we built all the 12 models of the contest.
In 1992, after the tender offer, we were chosen to build the four big monuments of Arles in antiquity:
the Amphitheatre, the Theatre, the Circus, the Forum and the hypogeum of Montagne des Cordes.
The delivery of these models took place in 1995.

amphitheatre

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