Marseille History Museum

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The Museum of the History of Marseille is renowned for its collection capturing the Mediterranean's rich trading culture and the footprints of ancient seafaring ancestors. Walking through exhibition halls filled with sunlight that seems steeped in Mediterranean sea breezes, sculptures and artifacts left along ancient Roman trade routes stop visitors in their tracks. On the walls of the exhibition rooms, clues holding the mystery of goods that spread from medieval trading ships lie hidden everywhere. In particular, the flow of time is felt clearly in the statues connected to ancient ruins along the Mediterranean coast. The thread of cultural exchange that ancient merchants carried across the sea grows even clearer within the space of this museum. Visitors gaze closely, as if able to touch Turkish pottery or Italian glasswork with their own hands, experiencing the stories of those who crossed the sea all the more vividly.