The Archaeological Museum

The Archaeological Museum of Seville has its origins in the late nineteenth century, when a public collection of antiquities, most of it taken from the Roman city of Italica, was created. It was not until the middle of the next century when it was consolidated and expanded with the move from the old Convent of La Merced to its current home: the pavilion of Fine Arts created by Anibal Gonzalez for the Ibero-American Exhibition of 1929, on loan from the City of Seville.

The Museum shares with the public the material testimonies of the different societies that succeeded each other in the territory of the current province of Seville, throughout Prehistory and Protohistory, the Roman Period (with collections coming mostly from Italica), Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages until concluding with the Modern Age.

The main collections.

The main collections: Prehistory, Protohistory, highlighting the Late Bronze Age period, with testimonies of the Phoenician and Tartessian cultures. Roman collections coming mostly from Italica, with an important sample of statuary from the Hadrianic period. It has medieval, Visigothic and Islamic pieces.