Musée départemental Arles antique

This museum is a delight, filled with precious artifacts that are originals, with plenty of room to move around. I loved all the models of various buildings, and the many elaborately decorated tombs, especially. The film on rescuing the ancient boat / river barge, was fascinating and very well done!

One of the best ancient museums in the south of France. The place is rich at unique historical exhibits including a huge original boat which was found on the bottom of the lake nearby. I do recommend buying a city pass as it provides a very good discount for this museum and several monuments as well as other museums.

Prob the highlight of my 4 hours in Arles. This museum is small enough to not get bored. And it has a good amount of well preserved cool artifacts like the barge or the different busts.

Many amazing objects displayed, sadly only 10% with English text explained, the rest French. We took the English audio guide, which was a disaster. An old woman with a shaky British accent, talking very old fashioned...it was painful to hear. Her text was also so unexciting. There are only 19 tracks, but like +1000 objects are displayed in the museum. Better not to use it at all and just look around. The boat is the masterpiece of the museum, for that 4 stars

Very interesting place. I went there because of the combined ticket (pass), and left impressed by the incredible collection gathered in this museum! Must visit to understand the great past of this area.

Easily the best museum on the city pass. The museum is a little far from the city center, but definitely worth the journey. The display of ancient artifacts from the region is impressive and the museum itself is a modern and really well lit building. The information about the boat that was found in the sediment of the Rhone river is very interesting, just learning about how they unearthed it via scuba diving is really cool.

We visited this museum while staying Arles. It was part of the Arles Advantage Pass. We loved the exhibit on the Arles Rhône 3. Such a spectacular discovery and exhibition space with a film with English subtitles. We did use Google translate for reading other information as not much was printed in English. There are lockers for larger bags at the entrance using 1 euro as a deposit for the key. If walking, just be careful NOT to get in the nasty bike/walking tunnel that goes to the other side of the Rhône.

Beautiful museum to visit. It shows the Roman history of Arles and its position as port in ancient times. It's cheap too if you use the combi ticket to visit other monuments in Arles. Most text is in French only, but there are some important texts that are also in English and there is an English folder to give context to the rooms and objects.

This excellent museum highlights the Roman and pre-Roman history of Arles. The museum sits on the outskirts of the old town, on the edge of the ancient Hippodrome. A very nice collection of Roman funerary items and some impressive floors. The highlight of the museum is the restored commercial barge that sank around 50 AD while still loaded with a cargo of building stone. It really is amazing! The majority of signs are in French only, but there is an audio guide available that has a nice sampling of items in other languages.

We walked from the old city of Arles. It's about a 20 minute walk. We had purchased city passes from the tourist info center in Arles. This had gotten us into the amphitheater and some of the other sites in town for only $9 per person. We went through the little security check point at the entrance to the museum, then wandered through the exhibits for a little less than an hour. It's a rather small museum and none of the signage is in English. We found a little theater where they were showing how the long boat on exhibition was excavated. It had subtitles in English and was very informative and interesting. Other than that, it was a lot of pottery and Roman ruins. I did like the mosaics towards the end of the exhibit. I mean, it's a cool museum, but not that worth it in my opinion.

They have a few signs in English. All of the plaques describing items are in French. The video on how they dug up the boat was interesting. It had English subtitles. I did okay at the museum because I had a french person with me who helped interpret. My favorite items on show were the tiles, coffins, and the boat. The museum did not cost much to enter.