Journées du Patrimoine 2024: guided tours at Archéa - musée archéologique de Louvres (95)

For the Journées du Patrimoine, Archéa, the museum of archaeology in the Pays de France located in Louvres, Val-d'Oise, awaits you for guided tours on Saturday September 21 and Sunday September 22, 2024. We reveal the program for this 40th edition!

How about a bit of archaeology forthe Journées du Patrimoine? Head for Archéa, musée d'Archéologie en Pays de France, located in Louvres in the Val-d'Oise, to discover a special program on Saturday September 21 and Sunday September 22, 2024. Opened in September 2010, Archéa is a little more than a museum: it's a regional project developed back in the 80s, with the aim of conserving, studying and promoting the archaeological heritage of Pays de France, the name of the natural region north of Paris, nearRoissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport.

A museum that welcomes you in a contemporary building, and invites you to discover its temporary and permanent collections based on the region's archaeological remains, from prehistory to the 18th century. Videos, models, tactile tours and other archaeological remains and objects are on display to help you better understand the rich history of this geographical area, and shed light on the history of France.

The museum takes over from the Tour Saint-Rieul, then the town's archaeological museum. The latter housed objects and remains unearthed during excavations carried out between 1976 and 1987 by the Groupe de recherches historiques et archéologiques de Louvres-en-Parisis (GRHALP). These excavations, which took place in Louvres town center, brought to light bronze basins, glassware, gold fibulae and bracelets, all bearing witness to the presence of a large Merovingian necropolis between 500 and 515 AD.

And if you'd like to learn more about the region's archaeology during the Journées du Patrimoine, you can also go here (program being updated):

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