The Roman Museum, Vienna

In the southern part of the Hoer Markt is a storyteller of the history of the ancient Roman border town of Vindobona, of the military camp of Vindobona and of its Roman legionaries - the Roman Museum. The Roman Museum in Vienna is erected on the place of the former forum of Vindobona and can tell much about the city's Roman past, how soldiers prepared for battles, how they rested from fighting, how they steeled their weapons and gathered strength for new ones. The Roman Museum first opened its doors in 2008 and the provocation for this came from the interest in Austria's Roman past that captured people's minds and hearts.

During construction work in the First District, Roman finds were found quite often, but were never thoroughly investigated and described. At the beginning of the 20th century, however, intense interest in this part of Vienna's history provoked archaeologists to begin excavations in the cellars and cellars around the Fleischmarkt and the Jewish Quarter, intent on finding traces of the ancient settlement. And their expectations are being met, as the collection of finds becomes more complete after surveying the destruction from World War II and during the construction of the subway. The picture is complete, the story can now be told.

The Roman Museum's exhibition, rich and extensive, is interestingly arranged around the remains of the Roman garrison. It displays extraordinary archaeological finds through which one is transported to a bygone time and is able to get a glimpse of the everyday life that was bustling in the city - statues of gods and goddesses, children's toys, coins and pottery and more. The models in the Roman Museum's exhibition have been carefully researched and painstakingly reconstructed, and thanks to maps and 3D installations people can find out what the city looked like at its creation, as well as its stages of development.

Some might find it strange that very few weapons have been found here - only a few metal spearheads and swords. Lying on this fact, we may safely draw the conclusion that life on these sites was relatively peaceful.