Mérida's National Museum of Roman Art is now working on major projects which will facilitate better access to collections both for the general public and for other, more specialised personnel, as well as the construction of a new home for the important collections dating from the Christian and Visigothic periods.
The need to restructure rooms and services was initially felt after years of experience and the many suggestions kindly offered by our public. It will involve the updating of the generally held vision of the old colony of August Emerita and its territory in order to incorporate new finds. It will draw on the most recent, appropriate and clear data from our archaeological discourse.
Furthermore, the Museum services will be reinforced by the acquisition of the adjacent plot of land, which will allow us to improve the organisation of the documentation, research, education and cultural initiatives areas.
Finally, the project, to which such importance has been attached, of finding a new home for Mérida's considerable Christian and Visigothic collections could well become a reality. The project has been set in motion with a preliminary survey of the plot resulting from the demolition of the old Civil Guard barracks, where archaeologists from the Mérida Archaeological Consortium have been excavating. The Museum project is being assessed in parallel with the drafting of the expository scheme.
Mérida's National Museum of Roman Art aims, as an institution, to explain the process of the Romanisation of Hispania to all its visitors through its important collections, whilst propitiating the study of Roman Hispania in general and of the province of Lusitania in particular. We are supported in our pursuit of this goal by many institutions, which make it possible for us to carry out a wealth of projects to that end.