Roman museum

The Roman Museum, located in the German city of Augsburg, opened its doors to visitors in 1966. The museum occupies the building of the Church of St. Magdalena, built in 1515 in the Baroque style.

The expositions of the museum testify to the era when the Roman settlement Augusta Windelicum was born on the site of the city, so named in honor of the Roman emperor Augustus in the first century AD. The museum features sarcophagi of Roman legionaries and tombstones from the graves of local merchants. Visitors to the museum will see what the Romans, who previously lived in the city, dressed and ate, practice Roman accounts, learn more about the Roman world.

The oldest exhibits in the collection of the Roman Museum are considered dated 340 AD glass ball with the motif of Adam and Eve, as well as tools of the Stone and Bronze Ages. Also in the collection of the museum are gold and silver coins, household utensils from Roman ceramics, glass vessels, jewelry and weapons of the VI and VII centuries.