Romano-Germanic Museum
Cathedral, Museum
Located right next to Cologne Cathedral, the Romano-Germanic Museum is dedicated to archaeological artefacts from 100,000 years of settlement history in the Rhineland area and Cologne’s Roman heritage. The centrepiece of the collection, quite literally, is the renowned Dionysus Mosaic. The museum was built on the foundations of a Roman villa, and around the 70 metre (750ft²) masterpiece which once decorated the floor of the old dining hall. Thirty-three years after the mosaic was unearthed in 1941, the museum opened its doors to the public.Some other highlights include the world’s largest collection of Roman glass vessels, stone tools and weapons from the Neolithic age, filigree Merovingians goldsmith’s art and the reconstructed 15 metre (50ft) high tomb of Lucius Poblicius, a Roman veteran legionary, which dates back to 40AD.