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The archaeological museum of Aleria is a site museum that preserves and promotes the collections uncovered during the excavations carried out in the Aleria area. This "Musée de France" institution presents the evolution of human occupation of a particular area, the eastern plain of Corsica, during Antiquity. It is housed in a Genoese fort classified as a Historic Monument.

The excavations carried out from the 1920s on the site of the Roman city, then on the Etruscan-influenced necropolis of Casabianda, have enabled the constitution of a collection of classical archaeology numbering around 10,000 objects. Its Greco-Etruscan section, composed of ceramics with rich red-figure decoration, weapons and jewellery, is one of the most beautiful and richest currently known internationally. Recent archaeological diagnoses show that the necropolis areas are much larger than those known, and in the coming years the Aleria collection will be put into context in the light of recent discoveries, recreating the link, particularly in the Etruscan period, between the necropolises and the areas dedicated to housing and production. While the site of the Roman city is currently the subject of extensive research that will lead to a high quality valorization, the related collection is in most cases the result of chance finds. Certain parts of this collection, epigraphy on marble or coins for example, nevertheless illustrate the political and administrative reality, daily life, production and exchange processes. The prospect of supplementing it with recent discoveries from the more than 180 tombs excavated in the Roman necropolis of Lamaghjone (illustrating more particularly the ritual and burial aspects) makes it possible to envisage the constitution in the years to come of a complete and documented collection for this period. In the 1960s, the importance of this collection led to the creation of an archaeological excavation depot. This is located less than 200 metres from the centre of the ancient city, in the small Genoese fort of Matra, whose first elevations date from the 15th century. It is within this listed building that the Aleria Archaeology Museum offers a museography that tells the story of the territories of Aleria, the gateway to and understanding of ancient Corsica at the heart of Mediterranean exchanges. A first exhibition trail entitled "Aldilà. Ancient necropolises of Aleria in the light" questions the rituals of burial and the accompaniment of the deceased to their final resting place. This space is designed to evolve, as it is also the receptacle of current archaeological research: since August 2021 it has been home to the objects unearthed in 2019 during the preventive excavation of the Roman necropolis of Lamaghjone. The second part of the visit, entitled "Aleria a Rumana", is devoted to the Roman period, through a presentation of the daily life of the inhabitants of the Roman city of Aleria, prior to the visit to the site. This overall archaeological complex welcomes around 40,000 visitors each year.

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