Vesunna Gallo-Roman Museum

The Vesunna Gallo-Roman Museum is a museum of Gallo-Roman art and archaeology within the metropolis of Perigueux, located in the French branch of the Dordogne. The Gallo-Roman ruins covered with the aid of a tumbler museum became constructed to guard a historic monument of France. N 1959, some metres from the Vesunna Tower, the remains of a domus had been located.

During a undertaking for the development of apartment housing on the web page of municipal nurseries, archaeologists done surveys which delivered to light Gallo-Roman partitions adorned with painted plaster, preserved to a height of 1 meter excessive. What accompanied became a chain of excavations. From 1960 to 1968, under the path of Claude Barriere, assisted by means of Max Sarradet: the plan of the domus is updated.

Archaeologists distinguished degrees in the profession of the web page: the domus become constructed in the first century AD, and then backfilled by way of over one meter inside the middle of the second one century. It has a kitchen, a triclinium personal thermal bathtub with the house focused on a lawn with a pool. The stays are categorized as a French Historical Monument on 25 October 1963. They introduced to mild a peristyle colonnade to the North and a large reception room inside the South.