Located on Place Vivaux at Marseille, the Roman Docks Museum presents the remains of one of the few Roman commercial warehouses known today. Listed as a Historic Monument, it is devoted to ancient maritime trade, revealing unique objects discovered in particular during underwater excavations, such as Etruscan amphorae, plates or Roman tiles.
Renovated at the end of the 1980s, the Roman Docks Museum also reveals some thirty dolia, large jars from the Roman era that were used to store wine or oil. Inside the park, visitors can also admire the walls and wells of medieval dwellings.
During the visit, it is difficult to miss the polychrome mosaic from the 3rd century representing a bather and which must originally have been part of the Roman baths located near the port, or even the model recreating the shore of the port with its docks in Roman times.
