Located in the Plaza de América, the Archaeological Museum is created with a collection of antiquities, extracted from the Roman city Itá lica. Its origins date back to the end of the 19th century, but it was not consolidated. until 20th century, when it moved from its location in the Convento de la Merced to the Fine Arts pavilion, created by Aníbal González for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. In this building, pieces from the Copper Age are exhibited , indigenous metalwork, oriental jewelry from the Tartessian age, Turdetan jewelry, representations of the Italian Venus discovered in 1940, Mercury, Diana, imperial busts, mosaics, sculptures, ceramics, portraits of Trajan and Augustus , Visigothic pieces, etc.
The Museum has almost 60,000 pieces, among which those from the Roman period stand out for their quality. It consists of three floors: in the basement there are ten rooms with materials from the different societies that occurred in Seville throughout Prehistory and Protohistory, highlighting the Late Bronze period with testimonies of the Phoenician and Tartessian cultures. On the ground floor and in 18 rooms the Roman Period, Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages are collected until concluding with the Modern Age. On this floor we will highlight the Roman challenges, most of them coming from Italica, sculptures of Goddesses Venus, Mercury, Diana and Fortune along with the Emperors Trajan and Hadrian, busts such as that of Diocletian, rooms dedicated to everyday objects, mosaics such as that of the Judgment of Paris, ceramic souvenirs, commerce, etc.
On the upper floor is the library, the Temporary Exhibition Rooms, the Assembly Hall and internal work areas. This floor is where they have located the main heritage of the museum, the Carambolo Treasure, dated 650 BC, it is a magnificent trousseau of 21 pieces of 25-karat gold, made in the time of the Phoenicians ( 8th-6th centuries BC). Currently and due to their historical and archaeological economic value, the pieces on display are replicas made by Sevillian goldsmiths. The current ones are stored in a bank.
From September 16 to June 15:
Tuesday to Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Sunday and holidays from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
From June 16 to September 15: Tuesday to Sunday and holidays from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.