Regional Archaeological Museum (Museu Regional de Arqueologia D. Diogo de Sousa) description and photos - Portugal: Braga (Topic)

Regional Archaeological Museum (Museu Regional de Arqueologia D. Diogo de Sousa) description and photos - Portugal: Braga. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Museu Regional de Arqueologia D. Diogo de Sousa.

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The Regional Archaeological Museum was founded in 1918. In June 2007, the museum moved to a new, purpose-built building in the center of Braga. The museum's collection includes artifacts from archaeological sites dating from the Paleolithic era to the Middle Ages. The Regional Archaeological Museum is also called the Diego de Sousa Museum.

Diego de Sousa was the archbishop and prominent politician of Braga in the 16th century. He did a lot for the city, turning the medieval town into an ideal city of the Renaissance: he expanded the streets, built squares and new churches, founded hospitals, and reconstructed the city's Cathedral. The archbishop was also fond of antiques. Diego de Sousa initiated the creation of a museum in order to to protect the archaeological heritage of Braga, but the museum was created only at the beginning of the twentieth century and was named the Museum of Art History and Archeology.

The museum worked irregularly, and only in 1980 the museum began to work permanently and was renamed the Regional Archaeological Museum. Since that time, the museum has focused on the protection of local and regional archaeological heritage, as well as on holding exhibitions.

The museum exhibits are located in four halls. In the first room, visitors can see a collection of objects from the Paleolithic era to the Bronze Age. In the second and third halls of the exposition, they tell about the development of Brakar Augusta, a Roman settlement that later became the city of Braga. In the fourth room, you can examine in more detail objects of early medieval religious art,

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