- The Gallo Roman Museum in Lyon, France, is located at 17 Rue Cleberg, Lyon, France and is built beside a rare set of Roman Paired Theatres that overlook the city.
- The Museum holds a collection of artefacts from the Roman period.
Monuments and Artefacts
- The Roman Paired Theatres
- The Roman Theatre of Fourviere had 10,000 seats.
- Also discovered here was a rare pulley mechanism for raising the curtain from below.
- The Roman Odeon had 3,000 seats, for Music and Poetry readings.
- It was very unusual to have Paired Theatres. The only other Paired Theatres in Gaul were at Vienne, of which only one now remains in existence.
- Lyon Tablet
- A bronze tablet recording the Emperor Claudius‘ speech recommending Noble Gauls be permitted to enter the Roman Senate.
- Coligny Calendar
- The Coligny Calendar is a Lunisolar Calendar engraved in the Gaulish language on a Bronze Tablet, dating to the end of the second century CE.
One of the Lyon paired theatres, Lugdunum Museum
One of the Lyon paired theatres, Lugdunum Museum
One of the Lyon paired theatres, Lugdunum Museum
Lugdunum Museum