Gallo-Roman Museum

The Gallo-Roman Museum is an archeological museum in Tongeren. It is devoted to the prehistorical instances and Roman age of the vicinity in South East Flanders. The museum changed into established in 1954 and received its current building in 1994. In 2011, it was offered as the European Museum of the Year. In the 19th century the Royal History and Antiquarian Society of Tongeren had accumulated a group of archaeological discoveries from the area. Some of this series become then displayed within the city from 1854. In 1937 the Provincial Museum opened in Hasselt in which the most vital pieces of the Tongeren collection had been exhibited.

In 1954 the Provincial Gallo-Roman Museum turned into opened in Tongeren. The collection changed into increased through donations and digs accomplished by the museum itself and the Nationale Dienst voor Opgravingen National Department for Excavations. After public pressure for a new home for the gathering, a new building by using architect Alfredo de Gregorio become opened in 1994. This new building with new and accelerated exhibition regions led to an increase in the number of visitors. The website was in addition improved in 2006.