To mark the 40th anniversary of the original archaeological research programme on the summit of Mont Beuvray, on the site of the Gallic oppidum, the Bibracte team is offering a pictorial retrospective of this incredible human and scientific adventure, which is still going strong.

It's an adventure that has mobilised researchers from 14 European countries over the past 40 years, providing them with a formidable arena for methodological experimentation, scientific emulation and training in the various methods of archaeology for several generations of students.

This adventure has been immortalised by Antoine Maillier, Bibracte's photographer, who has been covering the digs since they were first resumed, active both in the field and behind the scenes of the research and events that have marked the establishment.

On the archaeological site and in the museum, the exhibition highlights the main stages in this adventure.

On the site (in the Pâture du couvent picnic shelter, next to the excavation simulators), it illustrates the evolution of the main sectors of the oppidum, as excavations were carried out and the remains developed; it also sheds light on the methods used to locate, excavate, record and protect the remains.

At the museum, the spotlight is on the European Archaeological Centre, which is an operational base for the teams of researchers, a place where the excavation archives are produced and used, a place where the tonnes of archaeological objects discovered year after year are studied and conserved, and a meeting place and training centre for the community of researchers in European Protohistory.

The Centre des monuments nationaux, in partnership with the Archaeological Museum of Ibiza and Formentera, the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia-Empúries and the University of Barcelona, is presenting the exhibition "3D Archaeology, Technology & Archaeology", from 14 June 2024 to 18 May 2025 at the Ensérune Archaeological Museum.

New digital technologies have been revolutionising modern archaeology for the last twenty years! Today, they offer a capacity for analysis and processing that opens up new prospects for research and understanding. In particular, they are opening up new opportunities for cross-border cooperation and the sharing of knowledge.

The exhibition, divided into two sections, presents the innovative research carried out on the Ensérune oppidum and the work resulting from scientific and cultural cooperation between the three neighbouring Mediterranean regions of the Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Occitania.

The collections of the three partner archaeological museums bear witness to the communication network linking a melting pot of peoples and cultures over the course of time, and particularly during Antiquity.

The tour features a number of digital reconstructions: 10 immersive films, an interactive table and tactile 3D-printed objects.

It's a real plunge into archaeology 2.0!

Slovenian archaeology through sounds, symbols and first written words

Exhibition at the Frankfurt Archaeological Museum from 13 October 2023 to 17 March 2024.

Discover the art of Mongolian nomads at the Musée archéologique d'Ensérune!

From 17 June to 17 September 2023

Exhibition at the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt from 25 November 2022 to 10 April 2023

For the first time after their creation almost 2000 years ago, outstanding stone monuments of the Mithras cult from sanctuaries in the Roman city of NIDA (Frankfurt am Main-Heddernheim) left the area of Frankfurt city in October 2021. They were presented as a central component of the special exhibition "The Mystery of Mithras. Exploring the heart of a Roman cult" created in an international cooperation in the museums of Mariemont (Belgium) and Toulouse (France).

After this long journey, the internationally important cult images returned to Frankfurt and will be on display in the Archaeological Museum as part of the special exhibition " MITHRAS. Annäherungen an einen römischen Kult", which forms the conclusion of the project funded by the European Commission (mithra-project.eu).

In combination with finds from Mithras sanctuaries in Italy, France, Croatia, Hungary and Romania as well as from the Limes area in the Rhine-Main region, they open up a new perspective on this ancient deity and its fascinating cult, which to this day has puzzled science in many areas.

On 10 January, the Laténium, the archaeological museum of the canton of Neuchatel, inaugurated the museum's new permanent exhibition room devoted to the Iron Age, the highlight of which is obviously the spectacular collection resulting from the excavations at the La Tène site, located on the lakeshore within rifle range of the museum.

It should be remembered that fortuitous discoveries, more or less wild excavations, and then more systematic excavations carried out there between the 1860s and 1910 uncovered a unique collection of objects, which gave the Second Iron Age its other name. An examination of these objects shows, however, that the vast majority of them relate to a very small period, around 200 BC, whereas the so-called La Tène period conventionally covers half a millennium, from the 5th to the 1st century BC.

Until 30 October 2022;

How does archaeology perceive Celtic identity or rather Celtic identities?

The museums of Lausanne and Bibracte have joined forces to reveal the extraordinary site of Mormont (Switzerland), which contains assemblages of exceptional objects from the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C.