| Category: | Archaeological Site Museum |
| Information: | Aimed especially at regional school education and tourists. |
| Location: | Chimtou, Municipality of Soukh El Jomma, Province of Jendouba, Tunisia |
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The museum contains 4 exhibit rooms in 3 wings, totalling 1500 square meters (16,145 square ft). A central open space displays a royal Numidian altar façade. This multi-purpose court with its excellent acoustics provides concert and open air theatre facilities, a stage and orchestra space for 12 actors. It also has TV- and stage lighting capability and seats for an audience of 200. |
| Topics exhibited:
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- Regional Geology of North Western Tunisia
- Protohistoric Simitthu 500-100 B.C. - The Royal Numidian Altar - Marmor Numidicum - The Ancient marble of Simitthus - Roman Town Colonia Iulia Augusta Numidica Simitthensium - Funeral Monuments - Information Room and Lecture Theatre |
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Since 1990, plans of the Tunisian INP (Institute of National Heritage) and the German Archaeological Institute in Rome to present the results of over 25 years of excavation in a museum at Chimtou have come true. The building was financed by the Tunisian, the museology by the German partners. And now it's available on the Internet... |