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Saturday I went to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum which has a big collection of Roman objects from Trier. It does a nice job explaining Trier’s history, primarily its Roman history but there is also some stuff from the Middle Ages. There is an English audio tour but it is very limited. I don’t know why they can’t translate more of the interpretative explanations. It seems like that would be easy enough to do with the audio devices even if they didn’t want to add more signs to the walls. There is a great model of the city during Roman times in the museum as well. http://www.landesmuseum-trier.de/en/home.html

On the walk to the museum


















The Germans love their scale models









After the museum I walked to the amphitheater which is still used from time to time for performances. There was some sort of opera happening at the end of the month I was there (July). You can also go down underneath the floor of the amphitheater which was kind of neat.



Amphitheater basement