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The Archaeological Museum is located in the Ancient Monastery of Sant Pere de Galligants. It was used as a store of the excavations of the Empordà since 1846, the provincial museum was installed in 1857. In 1992 it was carried out the project of modernization of the facilities as well as a section of the Museum of Archeology of Catalonia. In this museum you will discover the oldest history of the human from the prehistoric to medieval time in the Girona. The interest of the museum is focused mainly on the explanation of human activity since the advent of man in the Lower Paleolithic to the late Roman period, through the archaeological remains found in excavations of sites of area covered by the Gironès, La Selva and Baix Empordà. The museum brings together a range of materials from everyday life. It can be seen that from rudimentary instruments that primitive man made up the most sophisticated luxury objects from Roman times. In the galleries of the cloister, there's a collection of stelae (stone monuments), and almost all Jewish tombstones sepulchral, from the cementery that the Jewish community had in Montjuïc (12th and 15th centuries). This one of the most important collections in Europe in this field. Also exhibited a collection of funeral urns and Gothic tombstones, mostly from the 14th century, some of them come from the demolished castle of Sant Francesc de Paula. In the North-East corner of the colonnade there's the Lauda of Rotland (1154), and in front, on the wall of the church, there's one from Bernat Aguiló, who died in 1273. Both of them were abbots from Sant Pere de Galligans.
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