In Vendeuil-Caply, the archaeological museum will reopen in February with an exhibition and new cultural programming. On the side of elected officials, we are considering an expansion of the site.
The archaeological museum closed its doors at the end of 2024 after a busy season, marked in particular by the “La dolce villa” exhibition.
The team is preparing for the one to come.
Thus, from February 8, the public will discover “Building permit: the art of building in the Roman style”. It will take the visitor behind the scenes of a Roman construction site.
A scenography
immersive
This exploration will be based on the discoveries made on the Vendeuil-Caply site over the years.
Thanks to an immersive scenography, everyone will see a construction site evolve and appreciate the use of materials during Antiquity.
It will even be possible to experiment with the machines used to lift and attempt to assemble a vault and reconstruct fresco and mosaic decorations.
The others
museum events
Other events are already scheduled on the site: the European Night of Museums, May 17; European Archeology Days, June 13 and 14; the Gallo-Roman race, September 20 and the European Heritage Days, September 20 and 21. Not forgetting workshops during school holidays.
And
enlargement?
With its activities, the museum could gain in surface area. A study on its extension has been underway since the end of 2024.
“We are giving ourselves 9 months to refine our constraints and plan its evolution which will be implemented during the next mandate,” specifies Jean Cauwel, president of the Community of Communes, in the editorial of the latest community information newspaper.
-In 2023, thanks to a community council, the president recalled that this expansion was planned since the construction of the museum.
The elected official emphasized that the extension “would offer another character to the museum, something more convivial with perhaps a small restoration. Above all, it would make it possible to have new services, to house the department's collections, and to increase the capacity of schoolchildren.”
The museum inaugurated in 2011
As a reminder, the inauguration dates back to 2011. After some procrastination as to the location, the local elected officials opted for the site closest to the Gallo-Roman theater. The building blends into the Picardy landscape.
Managed by the Community of Municipalities, it brings together the results of excavations undertaken on the Vendeuil-Caply site.
Every summer a construction site allows you to know a little more about the past.
These campaigns thus made it possible to uncover a Merovingian necropolis near the museum in 2008. The burials date from the end of the 4th to the beginning of the 6th century.
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