Musée archéologique départemental de Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges

About

The departmental archaeological museum of Saint-Bertrand-de-Cominges has been established since 1985, by the Departmental Council of Haute-Garonne, in the former Gendarmerie of Saint-Bertrand-de-Cominges, classified as a historical monument in 1946. The departmental archaeological museum obtained the label "Musée de France". The museum naturally benefits from the archaeological discoveries that were made from the first excavations of 1920 until 1969 on the very extensive site of Saint-Bertrand-de-Cominges, the Lugdunum des Convènes.

The museum gave a new box to the collection, until then only preserved in the Olivetins, and encouraged a revival of the excavation campaigns from 1985 until 2005. The collection covers about four centuries of the life of this important city, Prefecture of Convenes, located in Pyrenean piedmont. Temple, theatre, market, thermal baths made it a real provincial capital.

And today a much more extensive archaeological site but with a wealth at least comparable to that of the Roman villas of Montmaurin or Chiragan, not only for the Haute-Garonne, but also at the national level.