Official Review: Roman Museum (Vienna)
LOCATION. Nearest station: Stephansplatz.
A six-minute walk from St. Stephen’s Cathedral, exit the cathedral, go north and take your second left. If you see a bunch of tourists shooting their phones to the sky, don’t panic – it’s probably the Anker Clock, a bizarre Art Nouveau copper piece featuring twelve historical figures moving through the hours. Fitted with a “clock face” that could riddle you till the next.
Walk past the clock for another twenty seconds.
HERITAGE. The museum is built on top of a legionary fortress, first to fifth century. Much of the establishment spreads over the streets around the area; what is shown here is only one of the houses within the fortress. Discovered 1948 during the building of a sewer.
Exhibitions go through what it’s like to live in Vindobona, the Roman settlement that is present-day Vienna. The settlement guards the Roman Empire’s northern border. It contains a mix of civilians both local and Roman as well as soldiers, a thriving population of 30000+ with trades and shops and leisure activities for the army.
Excavations reveal artifacts such as pots from other Celtic regions, giving us a hint of the scale of trading that has gone through the region.
Now go upstairs to see a CG recreation of the fortress.
Time is asset: save it for better with 25-min museum tours. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize.
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A six-minute walk from St. Stephen’s Cathedral, exit the cathedral, go north and take your second left. If you see a bunch of tourists shooting their phones to the sky, don’t panic – it’s probably the Anker Clock, a bizarre Art Nouveau copper piece featuring twelve historical figures moving through the hours. Fitted with a “clock face” that could riddle you till the next.
Walk past the clock for another twenty seconds.
Roman Museum (Vienna)
HERITAGE. The museum is built on top of a legionary fortress, first to fifth century. Much of the establishment spreads over the streets around the area; what is shown here is only one of the houses within the fortress. Discovered 1948 during the building of a sewer.
Exhibitions go through what it’s like to live in Vindobona, the Roman settlement that is present-day Vienna. The settlement guards the Roman Empire’s northern border. It contains a mix of civilians both local and Roman as well as soldiers, a thriving population of 30000+ with trades and shops and leisure activities for the army.
Clip: Roman Museum (Vienna)
Excavations reveal artifacts such as pots from other Celtic regions, giving us a hint of the scale of trading that has gone through the region.
Now go upstairs to see a CG recreation of the fortress.
Time is asset: save it for better with 25-min museum tours. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize.
Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger
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