Musée d'Archéologie
Musée d'Archéologie stands in Antibes, France, inside the former Bastion Saint-André on the Mediterranean coast. The seventeenth-century fortification formed the southernmost part of the city walls and now shelters two restored underground vaulted galleries.
Opened in 1963, the museum traces Antibes from indigenous settlement through Greek Antipolis and the Roman trading port. Ceramics from the seventh to first centuries BCE show links with Etruscan, Massaliote and Greek communities, while coins, Roman wall paintings and shipwreck finds reveal wider Mediterranean connections. The collections began in 1928 with teacher Romuald Dor de la Souchère and later moved from the Château Grimaldi, now the Picasso Museum, into the bastion.
One striking object is a Via Aurelia milestone excavated outside Antibes in 1955. Dating from 305 to 306, its inscription names Roman emperors, although Flavius Valerius Severus was later chiselled away. At the entrance, a fragment of the Fontvieille aqueduct adds another visible link to the ancient city.
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