After I finished posting all these journals I realized somehow I never wrote about the Musee d'Archeologie, which is a crime because it was by far one of my favorite museums in Grenoble. It was so great I visited it twice. So this place was originally built in the fourth century and throughout changes in history more and more was built onto it. What is so remarkable is that it houses a crypt. There are skeletons partially excavated all over this place. The entire floor of this church has been excavated so you have to walk out onto a suspended ramp they built for viewing, and below you is just this incredible burial site.
They have this video that projects onto the wall of the church that explains the entire history of the site and how it changed and was built upon throughout centuries. I was so happy to find the museum has this video on their website.
Check it out here.
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| one of the many entrances to an underground crypt |
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| the ceiling of the main church |
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you can see in a later century they tried to build
over the original architecture with the new rock archway |
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| the floor of the church |
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