点评:According to press reports, the decision by the mayor of Nȋmes to build this museum was taken following the discovery, during the construction of an underground car park, of a large and well-preserved mosaic (35 m2) depicting the myth of Pentheus, king of Thebes, in the act of being killed by his mother Agave (the mother had been driven mad by the god Dionysus in revenge). The mosaic was part of an immense villa (900 m2) , dated the 2nd century AD, and today it's one of the highlights of the museum: it's placed in a position that allows the best possible view, and equipped with effective interpretative tools.
But the mastery of the mosaic display is only the particular case of a general commitment, which was made to make all the museum's exhibits captivating and easily understandable, using the most modern museographic devices. Here we recall only a few highlights:
Another mosaic, depicting Bellerophon who, riding the horse Pegasus, kills the Chimera; a life-size marble statue of a woman; a reclining Silenus; a bronze head of Apollo; a very large series of Roman epigraphs, which would be rather tedious finds, but on which attention is kept alive and understanding is permitted by wonderful animated virtual figures; a large, perfectly preserved portable barbecue (never seen anything similar in all the museums I have visited); the 1:1 scale reconstruction of the room of a Celtic house from the 5th century BC; and so on...
The Museum - inaugurated in 2018 - has therefore taken the place of the old archaeological museum of the city in assuming the role of the greatest vehicle for understanding the past of Nȋmes, from its Celtic origins to the Middle Ages. And it has become a pearl of the city, absolutely not to be missed, also thanks to the cumulative ticket for all the main Roman antiquities of the city.
翻译:据新闻报道,尼姆斯市长决定建造这座博物馆是因为在建造地下停车场期间发现了一幅保存完好的大型马赛克(35 平方米),描绘了底比斯国王彭透斯被其母亲龙舌兰杀死的神话(其母亲被神狄俄尼索斯报复而发疯)。这幅马赛克是一座巨大别墅(900 平方米)的一部分,建于公元 2 世纪,如今它是博物馆的亮点之一:它被放置在可以看到最佳视野的位置,并配备了有效的解说工具。
但马赛克展示的精湛只是总体承诺的一个特例,这一承诺旨在使用最现代的博物馆设备,使博物馆的所有展品都引人入胜且易于理解。这里我们只回顾几个亮点:
另一幅马赛克描绘了柏勒洛丰骑着飞马珀伽索斯杀死了奇美拉;一座真人大小的女性大理石雕像;斜倚的西勒诺斯;阿波罗的青铜头像;一系列非常大的罗马铭文,这些铭文可能相当乏味,但精彩的动画虚拟人物吸引了人们的注意力,并让人们理解;一个保存完好的大型便携式烧烤架(在我参观过的所有博物馆中从未见过类似的东西);公元前 5 世纪凯尔特人房屋房间的 1:1 比例重建;等等……
该博物馆于 2018 年落成,因此取代了该市的旧考古博物馆,成为了解尼姆斯过去(从凯尔特人起源到中世纪)的最大载体。它已成为这座城市的一颗明珠,绝对不容错过,这也要归功于该市所有主要罗马古迹的累积门票。