Morlanwelz, Musée de Mariemont

About a year ago, I visited the exposition on the Celts in the Musée de Mariemont in Morlanweltz, which is east of Charleroi in Belgium. The exposition dealt with the ethnogenesis of the Celts in Bohemia, and also deals with the way in which many of them later settled in northern France. There were many objects from museums in Central Europe, some of them really beautiful.

However, it was the museum itself that impressed me most. The collection of local Roman objects in the basement covers the entire province of Hainaut, which is more or less the area of the ancient Nervians. Because this tribe also lived in France, objects from across the border are included (e.g., from Bavay). Especially the Frankish warrior tombs were great, and I really liked a statuette of a very cute Venus (the