The Musée archéologique of

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is the largest of the numerous Alsacian museums displaying regional archeological findings from Prehistory to the

Merovingian dynasty The Merovingian dynasty () was the ruling family of the Franks from around the middle of the 5th century until Pepin the Short in 751. They first appear as "Kings of the Franks" in the Roman army of northern Gaul. By 509 they had united all the ...

. It is located in the basement of the Palais Rohan. The museum goes back to the legacy of the historian Johann Daniel Schöpflin (1694–1771), who bequeathed his collection to the city of Strasbourg. The ''Société pour la conservation des monuments historiques d’Alsace'' (Society for the Conservation of the Historical Monuments of Alsace), founded in 1855, expanded and publicly displayed the municipal collections, of which a large number was however destroyed in 1870, during the

Franco-Prussian War The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. Lasting from 19 July 1870 to 28 Janua ...

. The museum has been located in the basement of the

Rohan Castle Rohan Castle (, ), also known as ''Château Neuf'' (New Castle) or the ''Château de Saverne'' (), is an eighteenth-century Neoclassicism, neoclassical palace in the city of Saverne in Alsace, France. It was one of the residences of Archbishops o ...

in Strasbourg since 1889.Zur Geschichte des Museums: Bernadette Schnitzler, Malou Schneider: ''Le Musée archéologique de Strasbourg''. Musées de Strasbourg, Straßburg 1985, S. 9 ff. During the reconstruction of the city and its museums, the ''musée archéologique'' moved to the premises that are still currently its own. In the 20th century, longtime directors Robert Forrer and Jean-Jacques Hatt worked on the systematic study of the Alsatian ground and the substantial enlargement of the collection. Between 1988 and 1992, the ''musée'' was thoroughly renovated. Its collections continue to grow steadily due to the numerous excavations made in and around Strasbourg since the beginning of the construction of the new Tramway network. The museum presents an overview of the human habitat in the region beginning with the earliest traces of Human dwelling and settling. A special focus is put on Argentoratum and its outposts along the

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like Seltz (Saliso). One of the museums most famous objects is the much studied stele of the legionary Caius Largennius. The museum also displays findings from the Gallo-Roman sanctuaries on the Mont Donon and in Mackwiller, as well as Merovingian findings made around Erstein.

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