Expedition Euregio with the Romans

Go on an expedition through Roman South Limburg. A spectacular experience and time journey into Roman life in your own region. We go back 2,000 years. An impressive campaign through the landscape. From the big city to the countryside with villas – you will discover it all! Meet the locals and learn all their customs concerning gods, the dead and food.

TV presenter Jeroen Kramer introduces you, as a virtual Roman guide, to Roman life in all its aspects via a new “high-tech” exhibition space – with as absolute eye-catcher a projection screen of 100 square metres. In the exhibition the museum tells “the Roman story”, making use of new media and exhibition techniques.

As a visitor you walk – or better: travel – past six different “islands”. On these islands you see and hear, for example, the story of raw materials from the soil such as sandstone or loess, which were already used by the Romans. On another island you meet the Roman inhabitants, or you visit Roman Coriovallum (as Heerlen was then called) and the countryside. Elsewhere you eat with the Romans or reflect on their “gods and dead”.

The showpiece is a projection wall more than 28 metres long and 3 metres high, on which the Roman landscape of today’s Euregio is shown in an accelerated time-lapse from morning to night.

As a visitor, even 2,000 years later, you can recognise parts of that landscape in the wider surroundings of the Parkstad region. And a lot happens on the screen: you see Roman life passing before your eyes. Soldiers rest in the bathhouse; the potter is busy at work and farmers cultivate the land.

More information: Homepage – Thermenmuseum