Museo Nacional de Arte Romano | |
Former name | Museo Arqueológico de Mérida |
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Established | 26 March 1838 |
Location | Mérida, Spain |
Coordinates | 38°55′2.302″N 6°20′23.500″W / 38.91730611°N 6.33986111°W |
Type | Archaeology museum |
Collections | Roman art |
Collection size | 37,000 |
Visitors | 239,798 (2017) |
Director | Trinidad Nogales Basarrate |
Architect | Rafael Moneo |
Owner | General State Administration |
Website | museoarteromano |
Type | Cultural |
Criteria | iii, iv |
Designated | 1993 (17th session) |
Part of | Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida |
Reference no. | 664-017 |
Region | Europe and North America |
Type | Non-movable |
Criteria | Monument |
Designated | 1 March 1962 |
Reference no. | RI-51-0001309 |
The National Museum of Roman Art (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Arte Romano; MNAR) is an archaeology museum in Mérida, Spain. Devoted to Roman art, it exhibits extensive material from the archaeological ensemble of Mérida (the Roman colony of Augusta Emerita), one of the largest and most extensive archaeological sites in Spain, registered as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993.[1] It is one of the National Museums of Spain and it is attached to the Ministry of Culture.