Latenium
                 New Archaeological Museum in Neuchâtel

This park and archaeological museum in Neuchâtel, le Latenium, is built on the territory of Hauterive,
the place where archaeological excavations, following road works (carried out by Route Nationale),
revealed remains in three fundamental stages of Prehistory: late Bronze Age (around the millennium before our era)
illustrated by a village which left housing structures, twelve tonnes of ceramics and six thousand bronze objects;
the Neolithic Age, represented by a village founded in 3810 BC and the Magdalenian civilisation uncovered
by the discovery of a hunting camp from thirteen thousand years before our era.

The name of the new museum was naturally chosen because it is the reminiscent of the archaeological Neuchâtel site which gave its name to the Celtic civilisation of the second Iron Age (Vth to Ist century BC) which constitutes a first kind of European unification, because the Celtic language was spoken from Ireland to Romania.

For this museum, we have built two models, the Gallo-Roman Villa of Colombier
and the Wavre mausoleum.

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