A Roman idyll: villas in Limburg
In Limburg there were many villas in Roman times, the largest concentration in the Netherlands at the time. The Roman term ‘villa’ was roughly equivalent to ‘country estate’. These country estates functioned as arable farms, and played a key role in the food supply to the Roman cities and the army. The Limburg Museum, The Roman Museum and the National Museum of Antiquities manage a wealth of excavated material about this important part of our history, but yet to be developed or published.
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The Year 1000
In 2023-2024, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) presented a retrospective on the Netherlands in the 10th and 11th century in a European context. The aim of the project was to realise a new and comprehensible image of the period around the year 1000 in the Netherlands, by means of an inventory of archaeological finds, remains of buildings, and objects from the 10th and 11th century, plus a synthesis of research into those, and to communicate this image with a large and varied audience through an exhibition, book, and film.
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