Narbo Via
Musée Régional de la Narbonne Antique
Narbonne
2020
ClientRégion Occitanie
LocationNarbonne, France
Date2012 – 2020
Size9 000 m2
Budget50 M€
ScopeMuseography and design
Project leaderNicolas Girard, Mathieu Muin, Lucie Dorel, Teresa G. Fernandez
CuratorsAmbroise Lassale, Caroline Papin
ArchitectFoster + Partners and Jean Capia Architecture
MultimediaOn-Situ
GraphicsCL Design
LightingGeorges Sexton Associates
LandscapeUrbalab
MountmakersAïnu, Version Bronze
Photo credit©Nigel Young - Foster+Partners
Architects Foster+Partners with Studio Adrien Gardère won the international competition for the Museum Narbo Via. The future building, located at the entrance of the city alongside the canal de la Robine, will be dedicated to Narbonne’s collection of roman antiquities artifacts.
The museum central element -- imagined by the Studio -- is a monumental wall (72 m long, 10 m. high) constituted of the renowned roman funerary blocks of the city, which will separate the visitors’ space from the researchers’ and archaeologists’ laboratories.
This wall, conceived with the most innovative industrial storage system, will offer the possibility to move and display in an evolving fashion, the collection of over 2000 lapidary Roman stones.
The permanent galleries’ scenography is based upon the plan of a classic Roman villa, with a central atrium leading to all the exhibition spaces. The tour of the museum will be like going for a walk in one of the villas discovered in the Narbonne area.










ClientRégion Occitanie
LocationNarbonne, France
Date2012 – 2020
Size9 000 m2
Budget50 M€
ScopeMuseography and design
Project leaderNicolas Girard, Mathieu Muin, Lucie Dorel, Teresa G. Fernandez
CuratorsAmbroise Lassale, Caroline Papin
ArchitectFoster + Partners and Jean Capia Architecture
MultimediaOn-Situ
GraphicsCL Design
LightingGeorges Sexton Associates
LandscapeUrbalab
MountmakersAïnu, Version Bronze
Photo credit©Nigel Young - Foster+Partners