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MuseumsSite Name: The Malta National Museum of Archaeology
Country: Malta
NOTE: This site is 0.108 km away from the location you searched for.

Island: Mainland Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Valetta  Nearest Village: Valetta
Latitude: 35.897542N  Longitude: 14.511340E
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emerald visited on 31st Oct 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 In Republic Street, Valetta (pedestrian street) A fabulous smallish museum but packed with temple finds. Seating and audio guide available. Most definitely worth the 5 euro entrance fee

XIII visited on 1st Sep 2014 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4

SolarMegalith visited on 20th Mar 2013 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5

DrewParsons Bjorn myf have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4.33 Ambience: 4.33 Access: 4.33

The Malta National Museum of Archaeology
The Malta National Museum of Archaeology submitted by Bjorn : Entrance to the museum in Republic Street. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Malta. The National Museum of Archaeology displays an exceptional array of artefacts from Malta’s unique prehistoric periods starting with the first arrival of man in the Ghar Dalam phase (5200 BC) and running up to the Tarxien phase (2500 BC).

It is on Republic Street, in the Auberge de Provence, one of the inns of the Order of the Knights of St John. The museum concentrates on Malta’s prehistory. There are reconstructions of various remains found at the UNESCO site the Sal Halflieni Hypogeum. There is fine pottery, statuettes, sculptures, stone tools and jewellery from the prehistoric, megalithic and temple-building periods, as well as some Punic and Roman tomb furniture.

The main hall is devoted to temple carvings, in particular the giant statue and altar blocks of Tarxien Temples. The collection continues with representations of animals, temple models, and the remarkable human figures. Of particular note are the exquisite figures of the ‘Sleeping Lady’ from the Hypogeum, and the ‘Venus’ of Hagar Qim.

The last room exhibits some pottery from the temple period, together with tools of flint and obsidian, beads and other ornaments, all of which illustrate the remarkable artistic skill and sophistication of the prehistoric dwellers of the Islands.

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The Malta National Museum of Archaeology
The Malta National Museum of Archaeology submitted by DrewParsons : Beautiful Neolithic carvings in the museum which I visited in March 2000 (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Malta National Museum of Archaeology
The Malta National Museum of Archaeology submitted by Bjorn : Who's the odd one out then? A beautiful panel of animals. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Malta National Museum of Archaeology
The Malta National Museum of Archaeology submitted by Bjorn : The Sleeping Beauty of Malta was found at the Sal Halflieni Hypogeum at Paola, just on the outskirts of Valletta. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Malta National Museum of Archaeology
The Malta National Museum of Archaeology submitted by Bjorn : The Venus of Malta was found at the Hagar Qim Temple. Hagar Qim is pronounced Ayar Eem. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Malta National Museum of Archaeology
The Malta National Museum of Archaeology submitted by Bjorn : Another fabulous venus. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Malta National Museum of Archaeology
The Malta National Museum of Archaeology submitted by Bjorn : This large statue was found at the Tarxien Temple, in Paola, just south of Valletta.

The Malta National Museum of Archaeology
The Malta National Museum of Archaeology submitted by Bjorn : The delightfully voluptuous ladies of Malta.

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Megalithic spin? Brockdorff Circle report literally rewrites history by coldrum on Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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The long-awaited official report into the excavations of the Gozo Stone (aka Brockdorff) Circle in Xaghra – a unique underground prehistoric burial site near Ggantija temples – may have rewritten Maltese history in more ways than one: by failing to properly acknowledge that the site was originally discovered by Gozitan historian Joseph Attard Tabone, whose extensive research led to its precise relocation in 1965.
Launched yesterday at the Gozo Ministry, Victoria, and edited by Caroline Malone – wife of archaeologist Prof. David Trump, who oversaw the initial excavations – the 521-page volume purports to be an exhaustive collection of articles and papers related to this unique underground Neolithic burial complex.
Among the contributors are: Caroline Malone; Prof. Trump; Prof. Anthony Bonanno (Malta); Prof. Simon Stoddard (Cambridge); former Archaeology Curator Tancred Gouder; and the Superintendent of Cultural Heritage, Anthony Pace.
But a seminal paper written by Attard Tabone in 1965, detailing the precise circumstances of the burial site’s discovery, was neither included nor even mentioned in the entire book.
Instead, the official report into the history of the Brockdorff Circle appears to have minimised Attard Tabone’s entire contribution to its discovery – limiting its only allusion to a single, fleeting line in Chapter 1 (page 5) – while concentrating almost entirely on the contributions of the Trump-led excavations from 1965 onwards.
And yet it was Attard Tabone who first alerted Trump to the discovery of three previously unidentified menhirs (standing stones) in a farmer’s rubble wall in 1959; and it was also Attard Tabone who later understood the significance of the find, recognising them as the only external remnants of a stone circle that had been described in historical writings, but subsequently lost.
“In 1959 I reported this megalithic wall to Dr David Trump, then Curator of Archaeology,” Mr Attard Tabone said in a 2002 interview with journalist Karl Schembri. “We inspected the site together and he included it in the 1959/60 Museum Report; but we did not realise then, that under our feet lay a great wealth of archaeological material and that this wall was part of the Gozo Stone Circle. The secrets of the site were still hidden in libraries, archives and underground.”
It took Attard Tabone another five years to identify the site as part of the lost underground ruin, having established the location through visual evidence in the form of an 18th century illustration by French artist and writer, Jean Houel.
Attard Tabone wrote about his discoveries in 1965, detailing the research and surface observations that led him to identify this field as the site of the complex later named the ‘Brockdorff Circle’.
But he limited his contribution only to making public the exact location, leaving the actual excavation to professional archaeologists.
Surprisingly, however, his crucial paper was ignored altogether by a report supposedly detailing the discovery and excavations of this unique site. Furthermore, the rubble wall in question is passed off in the text as a recent discovery, when in fact there are no fewer than three mentions in Attard Tabone’s historic 1965 paper.
To add insult to injury, Attard Tabone himself was not even included in the list of official acknowledgements: only mentioned very casually in a single sentence of the introductory chapter.
“How do I feel about it? Hurt, mostly,” an aggrieved Attard Tabone said when contacted yesterday. “After all that hard work - not just to discover the monument, but also to conserve it: I have had to put up with years of abuse by builders who would willingly have reduced it all to rubble, if they had their own way.... And then, after all this, to be left out completely... it’s a great disappointment.”
Attard Tabone, who was awarded the Gieh ir-Repubblika medal in 2002 for his outstanding contribution to Maltese history and archaeology, di

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Re: The Malta National Museum of Archaeology by myf on Saturday, 31 January 2009
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I visited the museum in 2005, and felt it was disappointing considering the wealth of sites on the island. There were plenty of items on display, but the information given with the exhibits seemed to be somewhat lacking.
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Bronze age settlement found at US Embassy site by coldrum on Wednesday, 17 October 2007
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Bronze age settlement found at US Embassy site

A series of tombs and silos, probably dating back to the Bronze Age and early Roman period, have been discovered on the site set to become the new US Embassy, in Ta' Qali.

A team of nine archaeologists and students have been working at the site since August in a bid to survey the area as thoroughly as possible because a number of the structures - which are in very bad shape - may now be buried again under the new pentagon-shaped compound that will house the new embassy.

In fact, on Thursday the Malta Environment and Planning Authority gave its final seal of approval after the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage certified there was no need for the artefacts to be kept on display.

During an onsite visit yesterday, Cultural Superintendent Nathaniel Cutajar said the findings had been given a C grade, which in layman's terms means they could now be buried again, but not destroyed.

The US Embassy is not yet sure what it will do, yet it is possible the finds will remain exposed and incorporated in the landscaping since the embassy will only take up a small portion of the land.

The embassy's general services officer, Joseph Runyon, said, however, there are plans to exhibit small artefacts that have been recovered from the site.

So far, the embassy has funded the archaeological studies, which are likely to cost about Lm7,000. Four tombs and 17 silos have been found but there may be more.

Even though the findings are still being processed, it seems that people had originally settled there in the Bronze Age but there is evidence to suggest it was populated during early Roman times (from AD 1 to 3).

Unfortunately, the tombs in particular suffered extensive damage over the years. Besides having been quarried in the 1800s, the site was levelled off and developed, to be used eventually as the counting hall during general elections. Little more than a few inches is left of the once storey-high tombs, for instance.


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