AUSTRIA
NAME Prehistoric Museum
CENTER Asparn, Lower Austria
INCLUDES Celtic artifacts
NAME Rollett Museum
CENTER Baden bei Wien, Lower Austria
INCLUDES Celtic artifacts
NAME Vorarlberg Landesmuseum
CENTER Bregenz, Vorarlberg
INCLUDES coins / jewelry
REMARKS The small hoard from the Bronze and Iron Ages
was found in the Rhine Delta (Menapii territory) and may
have been hidden at the time of Caesar's invasion (BC 53).
NAME Bergenlandisches Landesmuseum
CENTER Eisenstadt, Burgenland
INCLUDES bent lance / sword and sheath / iron chisels /
hammer / anvil / 2 clay bottles / pottery
REMARKS The museum includes sacrificed weapons, smith's
tools, stamp-decorated pottery and other assorted items.
NAME Stadtmuseum
CENTER Friesach, Carinthia
INCLUDES ancient tombstones / spears / hatchets
NAME Globasnitz Heimatmuseum
CENTER Globasnitz, Carinthia
REMARKS The museum includes finds from the Hemmaberg
digs. The town of Globasnitz used to be the Celtic
settlement of Juenna.
NAME Heimatmuseum
CENTER Golling
INCLUDES tongs / shovel / iron bands / iron ring
REMARKS The museum's collection includes smith's tools
including tongs, a large shovel, iron bands, and a small
iron ring for molds.
NAME Landesmuseum Joanneum
CENTER Graz, Styria
INCLUDES bronze sculpture / mask and hands made from
sheet bronze / weapons / armor
REMARKS The museum includes a bronze ritual wagon
carrying the sculpture of a female goddess surrounded by
smaller figures of humans and animals.
NAME Keltenmuseum (Celtic Museum)
CENTER Hallein, Salzburg
INCLUDES jewelry / decorated bronze flask / gold boat
REMARKS The museum has numerous finds of the Hallstatt
and La Tène periods including a gold model of a salt boat,
and jewelry of gold, silver, bronze, amber, coral and
glass.
NAME Prahistorisches Museum
CENTER Hallstatt, Hallstatter See
REMARKS Finds from the Hallstatt excavations.
NAME Tiroler Landesmuseum
CENTER Innsbruck, Tirol
INCLUDES iron helmet / fragments of metal vessels /
bronze fibulas / vessel handles / votive figures
REMARKS The collection includes a horse with an Alpine
variant of Etruscan writing.
NAME Karntner Landesmuseum
CENTER Klagenfurt, Carinthia
INCLUDES Celtic finds
NAME Schloss Museum
CENTER Linz, Upper Austria
INCLUDES prehistoric artifacts
NAME Mautern Museum
CENTER Mautern, Lower Austria
INCLUDES Celtic artifacts
NAME Museum
CENTER Oberzeiring, Western Steiermark
INCLUDES Illyrian burial urn
REMARKS The museum is attached to the ancient silver
mine.
NAME Schloss Ritzen
CENTER Saalfelben am Steinermen Meer, Salzburg
REMARKS The museum is south of town by a small lake and
has a small collection of Celtic finds.
NAME Museum Carolino Augusteum
CENTER Salzburg
INCLUDES bronze flagon / stone head / thin calfskin shoe
/ clay stamp / bronze deer / bronze flagon /
human skull
REMARKS The museum has a human skull that shows recovery
from a sword thrust, a clay stamp for marking material and
an elegant bronze flagon with zoomorphic decoration.
NAME Naturhistorisches Museums
CENTER Vienna
INCLUDES intricate bronze Hallstatt stand / bronze bucket
ornamented with cow and calf figures / bronze
Hallstatt bull / ceremonial bronze axe with
sculpture of animal and rider perched on thick
edge of blade / iron sword with ivory and amber
inlay / iron scabbard decorated with bronze and
coral / gold ritual axe / gold earrings / bronze
belt plaques / cowskin sack with wooden frame /
etc.
NAME Stadtmuseum
CENTER Villech, Carinthia
INCLUDES prehistoric artifacts
NAME Heimathaus
CENTER Vocklabruck, Attersee
REMARKS The museum includes a good collection of local
artifacts from the Bronze and Iron Ages.
BELGIUM
NAME Musée Royal d'Art et d'Histoire
CENTER Brussels
REMARKS The museum includes a collection of Early La
Tène goldwork.
NAME Curtius Museum
CENTER Liège, in the Renaissance Palace
INCLUDES Gallo-Roman coins
NAME Weapons Museum
CENTER Liège
INCLUDES 12,500 weapons
NAME Weapons Museum (Musee d'Armes)
CENTER Namur, Flanders
REMARKS The site of the museum was originally a Celtic
fortress.
NAME Archaeological Museum
CENTER Namur, Butchers' Hall, Flanders
INCLUDES Celtic finds
NAME National Belgian Fishing Museum
CENTER Nieuwpoort, Flanders
REMARKS The collection is connected with North Sea
fishing from BC 700 onwards.
NAME Gallo-Roman Museum
CENTER Tongeren, Limburg
INCLUDES regional archeological finds
BULGARIA
NAME Narodnija Archeologiceski Muzej
CENTER Sofia
INCLUDES gold jewellery / bronze and iron chariot
fittings
CHANNEL
ISLANDS
NAME Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery
CENTER St Peter Port, Guernsey
INCLUDES knives / swords / scabbards / spears / shield
fittings / amber / jet / glass
REMARKS The museum includes a collection of La Tène
grave goods.
NAME Jersey Museum
CENTER St Helier, Jersey
INCLUDES gold torc / tweezers / razor / vessels / coins
REMARKS The museum has a good collection of Celtic
artifacts from the Bronze and Iron Ages, including a set of
tweezers from the Urnfield period and coins from the La
Tène period. The solid gold torc on display weighs 1.6 lbs
(750 gm) and was manufactured in Ireland around BC 1000.
CZECH REPUBLIC
NAME Museum Mesta Boskovice
CENTER Boskovice
INCLUDES bronze sword hilt / iron coin punch
NAME Archaologisches Institut
CENTER Brno
INCLUDES Lead test coins / filigree bronze bracelet /
incised pottery fragments
NAME Moravske Zemshe Muzeum
CENTER Brno
INCLUDES bronze figurines / amulets / fibula / vessels
REMARKS The museum's collection includes unusual bronze
fittings for a wooden flagon, amulets and a filigree bronze
fibula.
NAME Zapodoceské Museum
CENTER Plzen
INCLUDES intricate bronze fibula
NAME Narodni Muzeum (National Museum)
CENTER Prague
INCLUDES Hallstatt ritual stand / stone head of a
Bohemian / La Tène fibula / gold bracelets /
signal horn / horse harness fittings / bronze
coral jewellery
NAME Krajské Museum
CENTER Teplice
INCLUDES bronze plaque / pottery
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a bronze
decorative plaque of a scabbard, and pottery with swans
painted in red.
DENMARK
NAME Museum of Aarhus
CENTER Aarhus, Jutland
INCLUDES bronze cauldrons
NAME National Museum
CENTER Copenhagen
INCLUDES cauldrons / Bronze Age horn / dress fasteners /
bronze ritual wagon
REMARKS The museum's collection includes the Rynkeby
cauldron, the Trundholm "Sun Carriage" and the silver-gilt
Gundestrup cauldron with depictions of the Celtic deities
Cernunnos, Taranis and Teutates.
NAME Forhistorisk Museum
CENTER Moesgaard, Hojberg
INCLUDES bronze cauldron fittings
EGYPT
NAME Cairo Museum
CENTER Cairo
REMARKS The museum includes the head of a Galatian from
a statue built by Ptolemy II in BC 3rd century.
ENGLAND
NAME Alnwick Castle Museum
CENTER Alnwick, Northumberland
INCLUDES local finds
NAME Andover Museum
CENTER Andover, Hampshire
REMARKS The museum includes finds from the Iron Age
hillfort at Danebury.
NAME Alexander Keiller Museum
CENTER Avebury, Wiltshire
INCLUDES amulet
REMARKS The collection has an amulet from the Avebury
stone circle with ogham writing asking the goddess Byanu
for protection.
NAME Buckinghamshire County Museum
CENTER Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
INCLUDES local artifacts
NAME Admiral Blake Museum
CENTER Bridgewater, Somerset
REMARKS The museum's collection includes local finds
from the Bronze and Iron Age.
NAME Museum and Art Gallery
CENTER Brighton, Sussex
INCLUDES Bronze Age amber cup
NAME City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
CENTER Bristol, Avon
INCLUDES bronze torc
NAME Moyse's Hall Museum
CENTER Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
REMARKS The collection displays a large hoard of Celtic
swords and another of drinking vessels from the Bronze and
Iron Ages.
NAME Fursdon House
CENTER Cadbury, Devon
INCLUDES local artifacts
REMARKS There is an Iron Age hillfort on the site.
NAME University Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology
CENTER Cambridge
INCLUDES Bronze Age weapons / iron firedogs / shields /
swords / bronze mirrors / biceps bracelet
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a cast bronze
biceps bracelet as well as a copy of the Dying Gaul
sculpture.
NAME Dutch Cottage Museum
CENTER Canvey Island, Essex
INCLUDES corn dollies / prehistoric artifacts
NAME Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery
CENTER Carlisle, Cumbria
INCLUDES prehistoric finds
NAME Chertsey Museum
CENTER Chertsey, Surrey
INCLUDES shields / weapons
REMARKS The museum's collection includes Bronze and Iron
Age artifacts.
NAME Grosvenor Museum
CENTER Chester, Cheshire
INCLUDES collection of local finds
NAME Chesterholm Museum
CENTER Chesterholm, Northumberland
INCLUDES chariot
NAME Corinium Museum
CENTER Cirencester, Gloucestershire
REMARKS The collection displays a relief of the mother
goddesses and a horned god.
NAME Ancient House Museum
CENTER Clare, Suffolk
INCLUDES prehistoric archeology
NAME Poldowrian Museum of Prehistory
CENTER Coverack, Cornwall
REMARKS Near the museum is a Bronze Age round house.
NAME Valence House Museum
CENTER Dagenham, Essex
INCLUDES Bronze Age finds
NAME Dartford Borough Museum
CENTER Dartford, Kent
INCLUDES prehistoric finds
NAME Deal Library's Archaeological Collection
CENTER Deal, Kent
INCLUDES prehistoric finds
NAME Devizes Museum
CENTER Devizes, Wiltshire
INCLUDES weapons / jewelry / calendar
REMARKS In the collection is an interesting Bronze Age
Celtic gold Lozenge calendar from BC 1900 which marks the
eight sun events.
NAME Wiltshire Archaeological Society Museum
CENTER Devizes, Wiltshire
INCLUDES Early Bronze Age weapons / ornaments
NAME Dorset Archaeological Society's Museum
CENTER Dorchester, Dorset
REMARKS The collection is mostly from the early Bronze
Age.
NAME Dorset County Museum
CENTER Dorchester, Dorset
INCLUDES bronze chariot mount / skeleton
REMARKS The collection displays finds from the
Whitecombe burial site. A bronze chariot mount in the form
of a calf and the body of a Celtic warrior from Maiden
Castle who was shot in the back by a ballista bolt hurled
from a catapult.
NAME Rougemont House Museum
CENTER Exeter, Devon
REMARKS The museum's collection includes middle Bronze
Age implements.
NAME Folkestone Museum and Art Gallery
CENTER Folkestone, Kent
INCLUDES Iron Age finds
NAME Glastonbury Lake Village Museum
CENTER Glastonbury, Somerset
REMARKS The museum's collection includes finds from the
lake dating BC 250 to 50 AD.
NAME City Museum and Art Gallery
CENTER Gloucester
INCLUDES mirror / brooch / sculpture
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a bronze mirror
and brooch from the Birdlip grave, and a sculpture of a
male with accentuated eyes.
NAME Thurrock Local History Museum
CENTER Grays, Essex
INCLUDES local finds
NAME City Museum and Art Gallery
CENTER Hereford
REMARKS The museum's collection includes exhibits from
Iron Age hillforts.
NAME Museum of Cider and King Offa Distillery
CENTER Hereford
REMARKS Cider was an early Celtic drink for the gods.
NAME Herne Bay Museum
CENTER Herne Bay, Kent
REMARKS The collection is of local finds.
NAME Ipswich Museum
CENTER Ipswich, Suffolk
REMARKS The museum displays a superb collection of
Celtic gold torcs.
NAME Corn Exchange Museum
CENTER Kingston upon Hull, North Humberside
REMARKS The collection has finds from the Iron Age
Wetwang chariot burial.
NAME Stroud District Museum
CENTER Lansdown, Gloucestershire
INCLUDES prehistoric finds
NAME Jewry Wall Museum and Site
CENTER Leicester, Leicestershire
INCLUDES Bronze Age hoard
NAME Leominster Folk Museum
CENTER Leominster, Hereford & Worcester
INCLUDES Iron Age finds
NAME Letchworth Museum and Art Gallery
CENTER Letchworth, Hertfordshire
INCLUDES Iron Age burial finds
NAME Barbican House Museum
CENTER Lewes, Sussex
INCLUDES pottery / beads / coins / fibulas
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a model of
Mount Caburn Iron Age hill-fort.
NAME Littlehampton Museum
CENTER Littlehampton, West Sussex
INCLUDES Bronze Age finds
NAME Merseyside Museum
CENTER Liverpool, Merseyside
INCLUDES bronze mirror / spoon / horse trappings /
tankard
REMARKS The museum's collection includes an engraved
bronze mirror and a unique tankard from Wales made of yew
wood with a bronze rim and handle.
NAME Victoria & Albert Museum
CENTER London
INCLUDES gold rings
NAME British Museum
CENTER London
INCLUDES gold torcs / gold cup from Cornwall / gold and
bronze coins of Cunobel from the mint at Essex,
England / gold coin of the Redones tribe / sheet
gold shoulder and chest cover from northern
Wales / heavy gold collar from Sintra, Portugal
/ Aylesford bucket of Belgic design / Battersea
shield with glass or enamel inlay from
Middlesex, England / bronze shield boss with
coral trim / enamelled bronze jewelry / bronze
vessels with enamel and coral trim / massive
bronze biceps bracelets / bronze strainer with
swastika pattern from Marne, France / unique
bronze horn cap and BC 2nd century silver coin
from Aquitania, France with ogham consaine
script / statue of woman wearing cloak and
trousers / bronze meat hook with ravens and
swans from Antrim, Northern Ireland / bronze
swords / bronze-decorated iron spear, bronze
horned helmet and bronze shield boss from the
river Thames / bronze shield cover with coral
trim from Lincolnshire, England / bronze boar
from Middlesex, England / bronze sculpted
trappings from North Yorkshire, England / bronze
trappings from Somerset, England / bronze mirror
from Hertfordshire / bronze mirror from Devon
with triskele design / bronze torcs from France
/ elegant sculpted bronze plate of Monasterevin
style with spiral motif from Ireland / bronze-
covered wooden bucket with zoomorphic
decorations from Kent, England / etc.
REMARKS The British Museum has one of the largest
collections of Celtic artifacts. Since the turn of the
century, the English have reserved the term "Celtic" for
their enemies and like to think of themselves as Anglo-
Saxons. The time is almost here for the officials to
recognize that the majority of the English population has
Celtic roots and begin to display their rich heritage
instead of keeping it vaulted.
NAME Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum
CENTER Morpeth, Northumberland
INCLUDES bagpipes
REMARKS The museum has a fine collection of bagpipes, a
favorite Celtic instrument, from different countries and
ages.
NAME Victoriana Plus
CENTER Mullion, Cornwall
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a display of
lamps from BC 1000 onward.
NAME Greek Museum
CENTER Newcastle upon Tyne
INCLUDES Celtic archeology
NAME Museum of Antiquities (University)
CENTER Newcastle upon Tyne
INCLUDES hooded figures / mold for a deity with a club /
shields / wheel with 8 spokes / gilt bronze
fibula
NAME Castle Museum
CENTER Norwich, Norfolk
INCLUDES Iron Age hoard / gold torcs / weapons
NAME Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
CENTER Oxford
INCLUDES bronze scabbard mounts / bronze mirror handle /
gold basket earrings
NAME Padstow Museum
CENTER Padstow, Cornwall
REMARKS The museum displays finds from a local burial
site.
NAME Portland Museum
CENTER Portland, Dorset
INCLUDES iron ingots from BC 4th century
NAME Reading Museum and Art Gallery
CENTER Reading, Berkshire
INCLUDES gold torc / bronze fibula with triskele
NAME Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
CENTER Salisbury, Wiltshire
INCLUDES prehistoric finds / iron scabbard
NAME Sheffield City Museum
CENTER Sheffield, South Yorkshire
REMARKS The collection includes Bronze Age artifacts
from the Yorkshire and Peak Districts.
NAME The Norris Museum
CENTER St Ives, Cambridgeshire
REMARKS The museum displays Bronze and Iron Age finds as
well as a collection of artifacts from the Bell Beaker
People.
NAME Isles of Scilly Museum
CENTER St Mary's, Isles of Scilly
INCLUDES prehistoric finds
NAME Castle Museum
CENTER Taunton, Somerset
INCLUDES basket / wooden bowls / complete saws / knives /
metal and wooden tools
REMARKS The museum's collection includes finds from the
Glastonbury and Meare Lake settlements.
NAME Somerset County Museum
CENTER Taunton, Somerset
REMARKS The museum has a good selection of middle Bronze
Age finds.
NAME Cornwall County Museum
CENTER Truro, Cornwall
INCLUDES Early Bronze Age weapons
NAME Wakefield Museum
CENTER Wakefield, West Yorkshire
INCLUDES prehistoric finds
NAME Winchester City Museum
CENTER Winchester, Hampshire
INCLUDES Owslebury burial goods
FRANCE
NAME Musée Granet
CENTER Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône
INCLUDES stone sculptures / silver fibulas
REMARKS The museum's collection includes four stone
heads and a pillar with relief of stone heads by Celto-
Ligurians.
NAME Musée Alesia
CENTER Alise Sainte Reine, Burgundy
REMARKS The collection has a sculpture of the goddess
Epona sitting sideways on a pony.
NAME Musée St Jean à Angers
CENTER Angers, Maine-et-Loire
INCLUDES iron face mask
NAME Museé Municipal
CENTER Angoulême
INCLUDES helmet
REMARKS The museum's collection includes an ornate
bronze-covered iron helmet with ear-flaps and a decorative
knob on top trimmed with gold and coral.
NAME Musée Calvet
CENTER Avignon, Vaucluse
INCLUDES sculpture
REMARKS The museum has a BC 3rd century sculpture of
"the Monster of Noves", a snarling beast holding 2 bearded
human heads under its paws.
NAME Musée d' Avignon
CENTER Avignon, Vaucluse
INCLUDES sculpture
REMARKS There is a bronze statue of the Celtic god
Sucellos.
NAME Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archeologie
CENTER Besancon
REMARKS The collection has an Etruscan-style jug with
Celtic decoration.
NAME Musée de Bourges
CENTER Bourges, Cher
INCLUDES local Celtic finds
NAME Musée Municipal
CENTER Châlons-sur-Marne, Marne
INCLUDES figure of walking pony / decorated iron scabbard
NAME Musée Denon
CENTER Chalon-sur-Saône
INCLUDES decorated iron weapons
NAME Musée de Chartres
CENTER Chartres, Eure-et-Loire
INCLUDES bronze face mask
NAME Musée de Châtillon-sur-Seine
CENTER Châtillon-sur-Seine, Côte d'Or
INCLUDES sculptures / fibulas / gold torc
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a zoomorphic
bronze and coral fibula, a gold torc with paw and miniature
winged horse on its end, a depiction of the triple goddess,
and two limestone statues (now headless): one of a seated
woman in a cloak wearing a torc, and the other of a seated
warrior with a cape, sword and shield.
NAME Musée Bargoin
CENTER Clermont-Ferrand
REMARKS The museum has an AD 1st century wooden
sculpture of a woman wearing a torc, from a sacrificial
spring in the territory of the Arverni tribe.
NAME Musée Archeologique
CENTER Dijon, Burgundy
REMARKS The collection has wooden votive offerings from
the headwaters of the Seine.
NAME Musée
CENTER Epernay, Marne
INCLUDES pottery / bronze torcs / neckrings / bracelets /
earrings / pendant / parts of bead chains
REMARKS The museum's collection includes pottery beakers
and dishes and goods from a woman's grave.
NAME Amedee Lemozi Museum
CENTER Grotte du Pech-Merle, east of Cahors
INCLUDES Iron Age weapons / jewelry
NAME Musée de Guéret
CENTER Guéret, Creuse
INCLUDES Celtic archeology
NAME Musée Archeologique Departemental
CENTER Hastingues, Aquitaine
INCLUDES prehistoric artifacts
NAME Musée de Lectoure
CENTER Lectoure, Gers, N of Auch
INCLUDES Gallic stone head
NAME Musée des Beaux Arts
CENTER Lyons, Rhône
INCLUDES Celtic archeology
NAME Palais des Arts
CENTER Lyons, Rhône
INCLUDES Colingy Calendar
NAME Musée d'Archéologie Borély
CENTER Marseilles, Bouches-du-Rhône
INCLUDES sculptures
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a BC 4th
century Janiform head, a frieze of horse heads and the
sculpture of a goose sitting on a lintel of 3 pillars with
a skull nook from a Celto-Ligurian sanctuary.
NAME Musée de la Raymondie
CENTER Martel, Dordogne - Haut Quercy
REMARKS The collection has numerous items from the
hillfort of Puy d'Issolud.
NAME Musée de Metz
CENTER Metz, Moselle
REMARKS There is a vase with relief of Sucellos and
Nantosvelta and a bird.
NAME Musée des Jacobins
CENTER Morlaix
INCLUDES decorated La Tène pottery
NAME Musée Historique Lorrain
CENTER Nancy
INCLUDES bronze torc with anthropomorphic designs
NAME Musée Dobrée d'Archéologie
CENTER Nantes
INCLUDES bronze sword with anthropomorphic design
NAME Musée Archeologique
CENTER Nice, Riviera
REMARKS The museum has abundant archeological finds from
the area.
NAME Musée Archeologique de Nîmes
CENTER Nîmes, Gard
INCLUDES lintel with horses and heads
NAME Musée Historique
CENTER Orléans, Loiret
INCLUDES bronze boar / bronze stag / bronze statue
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a great boar, a
stag, and a young woman in an expressive pose, all made in
bronze.
NAME Cabinet des Medailles, Bibliotheque Nationale
CENTER Paris
INCLUDES vase / coins
REMARKS The coin collection displays a Celtic vase with
heads in triplicate (Tricephalus) as well as gold, silver
and bronzecoins of the Ambiani, Aulerci, Arverni,
Catuvellauni, Curiosolites, Insubres and Remi tribes.
NAME Louvre
CENTER Paris
INCLUDES slates / hat
REMARKS The museum's collection includes slates on the
Galatians and a conical hat made from sheet gold.
NAME Musée de Cluny
CENTER Paris
INCLUDES sculptures
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a sculpture of
the god Cernunnos and a relief of the gods Esus and Tarvos
Trigaranus.
NAME Musée de Perigord
CENTER Perigueux
INCLUDES jewellery / axes / pottery
NAME Musée Prehistorique Finistérien
CENTER Quimper
REMARKS The museum's collection includes pottery with
repeating stamp decoration.
NAME Musée Archeologique de Reims
CENTER Reims
INCLUDES Celtic archeology
NAME Musée St Remi
CENTER Reims
INCLUDES bronze helmet / decorated pottery
NAME Musée de Bretagne
CENTER Rennes, Brittany
INCLUDES prehistoric artifacts
REMARKS The museum provides a good survey of Brittany's
history.
NAME Musée Fenaille
CENTER Rodez, Aveyron
REMARKS There is a stone deity from Gaul holding a torc
with hair in spirals at the back of his head.
NAME Museé d'Histoire
CENTER Saint-Brieuc
REMARKS The museum has a stone sculpture of a harpist
wearing a torc.
NAME Musée des Antiquités National (Museum of Ancient
History)
CENTER St Germain-en-Laye, Ile de France W of Paris
INCLUDES bronze 4 wheeled-wagon with a hunter chasing a
boar / 2-wheeled chariot and harness / chariot
mount with coral inlay / sculpture of Taranis /
deity with torc and boar / horned hunter with
bow and billhook / bronze sculpture of a deity
sitting cross-legged with torc and an enamelled
eye / iron and bronze decorated helmets, one
with gold and enamel trim / swords and scabbards
/ bronze jewelry / decorated pottery / etc.
NAME Musée de St Remy de Provence
CENTER St Remy, Bouches-du-Rhône
INCLUDES Celtic finds
NAME Musée Prehistorique Finisterion
CENTER St-Guenole, Brittany - Finistère
INCLUDES Celtic artifacts
NAME Musée Archeologique
CENTER Strasbourg, Alsace
INCLUDES Celtic artifacts
NAME Museé Saint-Raymond
CENTER Toulouse
INCLUDES intricate gold torc / sheet gold filigree biceps
bracelet / bronze helmet / iron sword with
bronze handle
NAME Musée des Beaux-Arts
CENTER Troyes, Aube
INCLUDES bronze torc / iron zoomorphic fibula / bronze
biceps bracelet
GERMANY
NAME Romisches Museum
CENTER Augsberg, Bavaria
INCLUDES bronze dishes / bronze cauldron / gold cups
NAME Royal Museum
CENTER Berlin
INCLUDES medallion
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a medallion
with the name Bel in ogham.
NAME Staatliche Museum
CENTER Berlin
INCLUDES helmets / iron swords / belt buckle / pottery
REMARKS The museum's collection includes iron helmets
with bronze trim, a zoomorphic bronze belt buckle and some
elegant pottery engraved with animals.
NAME Rheinisches Landesmuseum
CENTER Bonn, Westphalia
INCLUDES bronze flagon / gold torc / bracelets / reliefs
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a relief of
Epona sidesaddle on a horse, and a bronze relief from grave
goods.
NAME Focke-Museum
CENTER Bremen, Lower Saxony
INCLUDES Celtic artifacts including bronze helmet
NAME Federsee Museum
CENTER Buchau am Federsee
INCLUDES Celtic finds
NAME Landesmuseum fur Vorgeschichte
CENTER Dresden
INCLUDES decorated bronze scabbard
NAME Rhönmuseum
CENTER Fladungen
INCLUDES bronze torcs / bracelets from BC 3rd century
NAME Wetterau Museum
CENTER Friedberg, Hessen
INCLUDES anthropomorphic bronze torc
NAME Gemeinde
CENTER Grunwald
REMARKS The collection includes a bronze straight razor
and knife from BC 11th century.
NAME Museum Gunzenhausen
CENTER Gunzenhausen
REMARKS The museum has clay drinking horns from BC 7th-
6th century in its collection.
NAME Landesmuseum
CENTER Halle, Saxony-Anhalt
INCLUDES gold grave objects
NAME Helms Museum
CENTER Harburg - Hamburg
INCLUDES one-piece Bronze Age sword
NAME Keltenmuseum
CENTER Ingolstadt, Bavaria
INCLUDES bronze weapons
NAME Stadtmuseum
CENTER Ingolstadt, Bavaria
REMARKS The museum's collection includes bronze
jewellery and iron weapons from BC 3rd-2nd century, and a
collection of silver coins from Manching.
NAME Vorgeschichtliches Museum
CENTER Jena - Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat
INCLUDES bronze fibulas / gold torcs / vessels
REMARKS The museum displays gold torcs with intricate
zoomorphic ends as well as some handles and decorative
parts of vessels.
NAME Landesmuseum
CENTER Karlsruhe, Wurttemberg-Baden
INCLUDES glass beads / bracelets / bronze fibulas
REMARKS The museum's collection includes blue, golden
and green glass beads and bracelets from the middle La Tène
period, as well as a bronze fibula with coral inlay.
NAME Museum Karlstadt
CENTER Karlstadt
REMARKS The collection includes a tiny bronze boar from
BC 2nd - 1st century.
NAME Statliche Museen
CENTER Kassel
INCLUDES Celtic gold and silver coins
NAME Hessisches Landesmuseum
CENTER Kassel
INCLUDES bronze enamelled horse trappings
NAME Archaologisches Museum der Stadt
CENTER Kelheim
INCLUDES bronze plate / clay nozzles
REMARKS The museum has a bronze La Tène decorative plate
with stylized zoomorphic design as well as the clay nozzles
from a set of bellows which were used in the process of
smelting gold and other metals.
NAME Kreisarchaologie
CENTER Kelheim
INCLUDES fibula (safety-pin brooch)
REMARKS The museum has an ornate Hallstatt bronze fibula
with spiral and wheel patterns.
NAME Romisches Museum
CENTER Kempten, Bavaria
INCLUDES Celtic artifacts from the region
NAME Gemeinde Kiefersfelden
CENTER Kiefersfelden, Upper Bavaria
INCLUDES La Tène iron sword
NAME Mittelrheinisches Museum
CENTER Koblenz, Rheinland
REMARKS The museum displays a curious figure of a person
on a horse worked in sheet bronze with engraved detail.
NAME Romisch-Germanisches Museum
CENTER Köln
INCLUDES bronze fitting decorated with human face
NAME Stadt- und Kreismuseum
CENTER Landshut
INCLUDES bronze rings / sandstone casting form for making
rings
NAME Mittlerheinisches Landesmuseum
CENTER Mainz, Rheinland
INCLUDES glass dog / bronze harness fittings / shield
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a Celtic blue
glass dog with white and yellow highlights from BC 2nd
century, and a bronze shield from BC 9th century.
NAME Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum
CENTER Mainz, Rheinland
INCLUDES gold coins / iron helmets / embossed-design ear-
flaps / swords / sword chain / fragments of
shield rims
REMARKS The collection includes a Bituriges Cubi gold
coin and weapons from a hoard of sacrificed weapons.
NAME Reiss-Museum
CENTER Mannheim
INCLUDES Fragment of a coin stamper with image of torc-
wearing figure
NAME Prahistorische Staatssammlung
CENTER Munich, Bavaria
INCLUDES bronze and iron weapons / shields / casting mold
for sword handle / gold, silver and bronze
jewellery / torcs / biceps bracelets / fibulas /
necklaces / bracelets / belts / belt-buckles /
gold coins / bronze and pottery vessels / bronze
and clay figurines / gold-plated sculpture of
tree / reconstructed Hallstatt burial wagon /
iron measuring stick with bronze marking rings /
gameboard / chariot axle pins / firedogs /
straight razor in hinged case / scalpel / etc.
REMARKS In 1993 this museum hosted a very comprehensive
Celtic exhibition, Das Keltische Jahrtausend (The Celtic
Millenium), presenting a stunning array of Celtic artifacts
from Urnfield to late La Tène from throughout Europe. The
exhibition included works from 80 museums and collections,
although sadly lacking contributions from the British
Museum.
Such exhibitions are essential to the cultural and
historical re-education of the European people, and help to
correct the suppression of information concerning the
essentially Celtic roots of European civilization.
NAME Germanisches Nationalmuseum
CENTER Nurnberg, Bavaria
INCLUDES gold hat / bronze jewellery
REMARKS The museum's collection includes highly
decorated cone hat of sheet gold with sun symbols, 35 in
(88 cm) tall.
NAME Naturhistorische Gesellschaft
CENTER Nurnberg, Bavaria
INCLUDES glass beads / shell pendants / bronze jewellery
/ clay figurine of horse with rider
NAME Museen der Stadt
CENTER Regensburg, Lower Bavaria
INCLUDES bronze jewellery including a fibula in the shape
of a horse / iron swords / bronze scabbard
(sheath) / pottery
NAME Museum fur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte
CENTER Saarbrucken
INCLUDES fibula / gilt-bronze pitcher / gold bracelets
and torc from a female's grave
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a gilt-bronze
pitcher with human-headed horse figure on lid and a bronze
fibula with coral inlay.
NAME Archaologisches Landesmuseum der Christian-
Albrechts-Universitat
CENTER Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig
REMARKS The collection has a bronze belt with five discs
decorated in the triskele pattern.
NAME Hegau Museum
CENTER Singen
INCLUDES pottery set
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a pottery set
(bowls, cups, dishes, serving vessels with lids) with a
zig-zag pattern painted in red and black.
NAME Deutsches Klingen Museum
CENTER Solingen, Westphalia
INCLUDES Celtic artifacts - Bronze age daggers
NAME Historisches Museum der Pfalz
CENTER Speyer, Rheinland-Pfalz
INCLUDES biceps bracelet / ring / gold cone hat
REMARKS The museum's collection includes an intricately
decorated gold biceps bracelet and a ring, both with
janiform heads, a highly decorated gold cone hat 1 ft (30
cm) tall, and a face embossed in sheet gold.
NAME Gaubodenmuseum
CENTER Straubing
INCLUDES bronze and iron fibulas / iron belt chain / blue
glass biceps bracelets / bronze biceps bracelet
/ bronze ankle bracelet / decorated pottery
NAME Wurttembergisches Landesmuseum
CENTER Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg
INCLUDES huge collection of Celtic artifacts, many from
graves: stone, amber & ivory sphinx / bronze
neck ring with red enamel / stone figure with
Janiform head / iron torc with a silver coating
and oxen heads at the ends wearing torcs /
Hallstatt gold torc / stone relief of 3 mother-
goddesses / relief of Epona with 7 horses /
Hallstatt gold cup / bronze couch supported by
human figurines / cauldron with animal ornaments
/ 4-wheeled wagons / gold torc / bracelets /
bronze and gold fibulas / gold dish / bronze
flagon with decorated handles / ornamented
chariot linch-pin / gold neckring with embossed
animals / etc.
NAME Landesmuseum
CENTER Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz
INCLUDES relief carving / bronze figurine / bronze
plaques / belt-buckle / slingshot ammunition
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a relief of the
deity Esus cutting down a tree which has the head of a bull
and three birds, a bronze figurine of a horse, gold-plated
bronze plaques with coral inlay and a belt-buckle of bronze
and coral.
NAME Mainfrankisches Museum
CENTER Wurzburg
INCLUDES bronze ritual wagon / vessels, cups and bowls
REMARKS Grave goods displayed at the museum include a
bronze ritual wagon with a little vessel supported on a
wheeled framework with duck heads on each axle.
GREECE
NAME Museum Isthmia
CENTER Corinth
INCLUDES pair of hollow bronze rings from a local
sacrificial spring, possibly of Bavarian origin
HUNGARY
NAME Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum
CENTER Budapest
INCLUDES urnfield hoard / gold cups / gold and bronze
jewelry / silver coins / bronze figurines of
deer, boar / decorated iron spearhead and
scabbards / pottery
NAME Balatoni Múzeum
CENTER Keszthely
INCLUDES pottery with anthropomorphic handle
NAME Jósa András Múzeum
CENTER Nyiregyháza
INCLUDES decorated pottery vessel in the shape of a soft
boot
NAME Ferenc Liszt Múzeum
CENTER Sopron
INCLUDES pottery
REMARKS The collection includes pottery with abstract
stamp decoration and with incised drawings of figures,
animals and wagons, etc.
NAME Balogh Adám Múzeum
CENTER Szekszard
INCLUDES ornate spiral-decorated bronze fibula / pottery
with anthropomorphic handle
NAME Damjanich János Múzeum
CENTER Szolnok
INCLUDES drinking horn with bronze zoomorphic cradle and
decoration
NAME Museum Szombathely
CENTER Szombathely
INCLUDES gold diadem from Velem-Szentvid / decorated iron
scabbard
IRELAND
NAME Armagh County Museum
CENTER Armagh
INCLUDES good collection of Celtic weapons
NAME Chapter House, Armagh Protestant Cathedral
CENTER Armagh
INCLUDES stone sculpture
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a stone figure
from Tanderagee, probably dating from BC 2nd-1st century.
NAME Athlone Museum
CENTER Athlone - in the castle
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a good
collection of local Celtic artifacts from the Bronze and
Iron Ages including 2 sculptures of the fertility goddess
Sheila na Gig.
NAME St Catherine's National School Museum
CENTER Aughrim, Galway
INCLUDES Celtic Bronze Age artifacts
NAME Therese Murphy's Collection
CENTER Baltimore, south of Skibbereen
INCLUDES Celtic Bronze Age and Iron Age artifacts
REMARKS This farmhouse "museum" collection of local
artifacts is worth the trouble of locating. Keep an eye
out for a large anchor.
NAME De Valera Museum
CENTER Bruree, Limerick
INCLUDES axes and other Celtic artifacts
NAME Iarsmalann Chleire
CENTER Cape Clear Island, Cork
INCLUDES Celtic artifacts
NAME Tipperary County Museum
CENTER Clonmel, Tipperary
INCLUDES Prehistoric artifacts
NAME Ceim-Hill Museum
CENTER Cooldurragha, Cork
REMARKS The museum has its emphasis on folk medicine and
natural dyes.
NAME Cork Public Museum
CENTER Cork
INCLUDES Prehistoric artifacts
NAME The Dingle Collection
CENTER Dingle, Kerry
INCLUDES A Gaelic library
NAME National Museum of Ireland
CENTER Dublin
INCLUDES gold torcs of tube construction / bronze cup
made on a lathe / Killarney gold lunula / gold
sculpture of boat with mast and oars / bronze
sword / bronze trumpet / bone bull-roarer with
inscribed scrollwork and yin-yang symbols / rock
carved with spiral and scroll patterns / three-
headed stone sculpture (Tricephalus) / bronze
cup from Shannon river / figure carved in yew /
enamelled bronze disc with triskele design /
bronze belt-buckle and plaque with triskele and
spiral designs / silver-gilt "Tara brooch" /
bronze ring-shaped brooch / etc.
NAME Royal Irish Academy Library
CENTER Dublin
REMARKS The AD 12th century Book of the Dun Cow is
sheltered here.
NAME University College Galway
CENTER Galway
REMARKS UNESCO has chosen this site for a collection of
spoken material in all the Celtic languages.
NAME Hunt Museum
CENTER Limerick - N.I.H.E building
INCLUDES Bronze and Iron Ages shield / cauldron / etc.
NAME Irishtown Museum
CENTER Limerick
REMARKS Collection of Celtic artifacts from the Bronze
and Iron Ages
NAME Lisnaskea Folk Museum
CENTER Lisnaskea, Fermanagh
REMARKS The library museum has numerous displays that
provide information on traditional Irish life.
NAME Millmount Museum
CENTER Millmount, Meath
REMARKS The museum has a Boyne coracle and photographs
of New Grange before it was renovated.
NAME Millstreet Local Museum
CENTER Millstreet, Cork
INCLUDES the Liscahane ogham stone
NAME Monaghan County Museum
CENTER Monaghan
REMARKS Good collection of prehistoric artifacts from
the local area
NAME Market Hall Museum
CENTER Mullingar, Westmeath
INCLUDES local archeology / weapons / quernstones / Iron
Age implements
NAME Military Museum
CENTER Mullingar, Westmeath
REMARKS The museum has a collection of prehistoric boats
dug out of the local lakes.
NAME Franciscan Friary Museum
CENTER Rossnowlagh, Donegal
INCLUDES Bronze Age daggers / Uilleann pipes
NAME St John's Interpretive Centre
CENTER Stokestown, Roscommon
REMARKS The center explains different Iron Age
settlements in the area.
NAME Meath Archaeological and Historical Museum
CENTER Trim, Meath
INCLUDES Celtic weapons
ISLE
OF MAN
NAME The Manx Museum
CENTER Douglas
INCLUDES bronze swords / palstaves / daggers / spearheads
REMARKS The museum houses finds from over 50 Bronze Age
sites.
ITALY
NAME Museo Nazionale delle Marche
CENTER Ancona
INCLUDES gold torcs / bronze and iron scabbard
REMARKS The museum's collection includes gold torcs from
BC 4th century.
NAME Museo Civico
CENTER Bologna, Emilia
REMARKS The museum has a large collection of artifacts
of the numerous peoples who have lived in the area.
NAME Museo Civico
CENTER Brescia
INCLUDES silver plate
REMARKS The silver plate displayed in the museum has 18
embossed heads on the rim and a triskele in the center.
NAME Instituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri
CENTER Chiavari, Genoa
REMARKS The collection includes artifacts from Ligurian
graves.
NAME Museo Civico
CENTER Como, Lombardy
INCLUDES reconstructed Iron Age ceremonial wagon
NAME Museo di Archeologico Nazionale Di Spina
CENTER Ferrara, Emilia
REMARKS The museum displays many artifacts of the area
which was originally a Venetii stronghold.
NAME Etrusco-Greco-Roman Museum
CENTER Florence
INCLUDES marble sarcophagus
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a BC 4th
century marble sarcophagus from Tarquinia.
NAME Palazzo Tursi (Minicipio)
CENTER Genoa
REMARKS The museum has a bronze tablet from BC 117
stating the boundary between the Genuates and the Veturii.
The tablet is able to be viewed only when the Sala de
Sindaco is not in session.
NAME Antiquarium
CENTER Gravellona Toce near Lake Maggiore
INCLUDES Iron Age finds
NAME Archaeological Museum
CENTER Milan, Lombardy
INCLUDES Celtic artifacts
NAME Museo di Monterenzio
CENTER Monterenzio, Bologna
INCLUDES BC 4th century bronze helmet
NAME National Museum
CENTER Naples
REMARKS The museum has a statue depicting Brennus as he
commits suicide.
NAME Museo Chierici
CENTER Parma, Emilia
REMARKS Archeological collection of the local area
NAME Museo Nationale di Antichita
CENTER Parma, Emilia
REMARKS The museum includes Bronze and Iron Age
artifacts from the area.
NAME Palazzo Farnese
CENTER Piacenza, Emilia
REMARKS The museum has an Etruscan bronze of a sheep's
liver called "Fegato di Piacenza" covered with the names of
Etruscan deities and used for the purpose of divination.
NAME Museo Archeologico
CENTER Porto Tolle, Emilia
REMARKS The museum includes a Celtic iron chariot from
BC 4th century.
NAME Museo Civico
CENTER Rimini, Emilia
REMARKS Local archeology
NAME Museo Capitolini
CENTER Rome
REMARKS The museum includes a Roman marble copy of the
bronze sculpture of the "Dying Gaul".
NAME Museo Nazionale
CENTER Rome
REMARKS Celtic archeology
NAME Museo Civico
CENTER Treviso, Venice
INCLUDES Hallstatt swords
NAME Museum of Antiquities
CENTER Turin
INCLUDES Bronze Age swords / implements / compasses /
surgical instruments / Iron Age helmets
NAME Musei Civici
CENTER Varese, Lombardy
REMARKS The collection includes artifacts from the
Lombardy region.
NAME Natural History Museum
CENTER Verona
INCLUDES Bronze Age pots / Bronze Age dagger / fibula /
razor
REMARKS The Bronze Age pots are of Bell Beaker type.
NAME Museo Civico
CENTER Vicenza
INCLUDES Venetic inscription / artifacts from the lake-
dwellings at Fimon
LIECHTENSTEIN
NAME Liechtensteinisches Landesmuseum
CENTER Vaduz
INCLUDES bronze votive statues of warrior / fertility
figures / boar / deer
LUXEMBOURG
NAME Musée d'Histoire et d'Art
CENTER Luxembourg
INCLUDES bronze weapons / bucket
REMARKS The museum's collection includes a BC 1st
century bucket made from yew wood with bronze trimmings.
NETHERLANDS
NAME Archeological Museum
CENTER Leyden
INCLUDES statue of Nehalennia
NAME Zeeuws Museum
CENTER Middelburg
INCLUDES statue of Nehalennia
NORTHERN IRELAND
NAME Municipal Museum
CENTER Belfast
INCLUDES Celtic artifacts
NAME Ulster Museum, Botanic Gardens
CENTER Belfast
INCLUDES bronze disc with triad pattern / decorated
bronze scabbards
NAME Fermanagh County Museum
CENTER Enniskillen, Fermanagh
REMARKS The museum includes Celtic artifacts of the area
including stone heads found in the nearby lakes.
NORWAY
NAME Bergen Museum
CENTER Bergen
INCLUDES head on the enamelled handle of a bowl
POLAND
NAME Panstwowe Muzeum Archeologiczne
CENTER Warsaw
REMARKS The museum includes a bronze bowl with enamel
inlay and a spout in the form of a boar's head.
PORTUGAL
NAME Museu Regional
CENTER Beja, Alentejo
REMARKS Small local collection from the Bronze age
including stone pendants, stone carvings, relief carving of
cross sword and axe, etc.
NAME Museu Nacional de Arqueologia e Etnologia
CENTER Belem, Lisbon
REMARKS Large collection of prehistoric items.
NAME Museu Regional do Abade de Bacal
CENTER Bragança
INCLUDES costumes / musical instruments
REMARKS The museum displays local archeological remains.
NAME Museu Militar
CENTER Chaves, Vila Real
INCLUDES Iron Age artifacts
NAME Museu Municipal
CENTER Chaves, Vila Real
REMARKS The museum includes archeological material from
the surrounding Celtic area.
NAME Museu Municipal Dr Santos Rocha
CENTER Figueira da Foz
INCLUDES Iron Age belt buckle
NAME Museu Martins Sarmento
CENTER Guimarães, Braga
INCLUDES stone lintels / statues engraved with sun
symbols and swastikas / gold jewelry / bronze
votive wagon
REMARKS The museum includes finds from Iron Age
hillforts of Citânia de Briteiros and Castro de Sabroso
including a stone sculpture of a colossus with large
phallus and one large hand. Due to a theft several years
ago, the more precious items (gold) are now kept in a bank
vault.
NAME Museu Histórico e Arqueológico de Viseu
CENTER Viseu
INCLUDES polished axes / bronze bracelet / fibula / urns
REMARKS The museum displays some funerary urns with a
glaze identical to that still used in the region.
NAME Museu do Seminário Maior de Viseu
CENTER Viseu - Largo Santa Cristina
REMARKS The museum includes ceramic and bronze pieces
from Castro da Senhora da Guia in Baioes.
ROMANIA
NAME Muzeul Judetean Maramures
CENTER Baia Mare
REMARKS The museum includes an iron helmet with a
sculpture of a large bronze eagle perched on top.
NAME National Museum
CENTER Bucharest
INCLUDES Celtic artifacts
NAME Cluj Museum
CENTER Cluj, Transylvania
REMARKS The museum has a small bronze sculpture of a
boar.
NAME Brukenthal Muzeul
CENTER Sibiu
INCLUDES Bronze fibula
RUSSIA
NAME Hermitage Museum
CENTER Leningrad
INCLUDES gold bull / tattooed skin
REMARKS The museum contains a gold bull figurine from
the Kurgan culture and the tattooed skin from the arm of a
Scythian.
SCOTLAND
NAME University Anthropological Museum
CENTER Aberdeen
INCLUDES prehistoric archeology / Pictish stones
NAME John Nicholson Museum
CENTER Auckengill, Caithness
INCLUDES Celtic archeology
NAME Burghead Museum
CENTER Burghead, Forres
INCLUDES Pictish stone / bull's head
NAME Scottish Tartan Museum
CENTER Comrie, Tayside
INCLUDES 1300 tartans displayed
REMARKS The museum also has weaving demonstrations, a
library, and a garden of plants used to make the dyes.
NAME Dunrobin Castle Museum
CENTER Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland N of Golspie
INCLUDES large collection of Pictish stones
REMARKS The museum is in a small building off the formal
gardens behind the castle.
NAME Dunvegan Castle Museum
CENTER Dunvegan, Isle of Skye
INCLUDES Pictish stones
NAME The Piping Centre
CENTER Dunvegan, Isle of Skye
REMARKS The center gives the history of highland music
played on the bagpipes.
NAME Canongate Tolbooth
CENTER Edinburgh
REMARKS Visitors can learn to make rubbings of Pictish
stones.
NAME Royal Museum of Scotland
CENTER Edinburgh
INCLUDES jet necklace / carnyx (war trumpet) / chariot /
bronze pony-cap / bronze shields and weapons / gold torc /
bronze jewellery / enamelled bronze dipper / stone 3-faced
sculpture
NAME Elgin Museum
CENTER Elgin, Moray
INCLUDES Celtic artifacts / Pictish stones
NAME Falkland Palace Museum
CENTER Falkland, Fife
INCLUDES two Pictish stones
NAME Gairloch Heritage Museum
CENTER Gairloch, Wester Ross
INCLUDES Pictish stones
REMARKS There is also an exhibition of spinning with
natural dyes for the wool.
NAME Art Gallery and Museum
CENTER Glasgow
INCLUDES Celtic archeology / Scottish prehistory
NAME Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow
CENTER Glasgow
INCLUDES Celtic artifacts
NAME Timespan Heritage Centre
CENTER Helmsdale, Caithness
REMARKS The centre has interesting displays of the area
showing its evolution from the Neolithic Age onward.
NAME Shetland Museum
CENTER Hillhead, Shetlands - Mainland Island
REMARKS The museum tells the prehistory of the Shetland
Islands.
NAME Inverness Museum
CENTER Inverness
REMARKS There is a good collection of Celtic artifacts
including Pictish stones.
NAME Carnegie Museum
CENTER Inverurie, Aberdeenshire
REMARKS Prehistoric archeology of the area.
NAME Inverurie Museum
CENTER Inverurie, Grampian
INCLUDES Celtic archeology
NAME Dick Institute
CENTER Kilmarnock, Ayrshire
INCLUDES Celtic archeology / Iron Age crannog artifacts
NAME Tankerness House Museum
CENTER Kirkwall, Orkney Islands - Mainland Island
REMARKS The museum tells the story of the Orkneys over a
4000-year period with Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age
spirals.
NAME Clan Gunn Museum
CENTER Latheron, Caithness
REMARKS The museum houses a library with material on the
district of Caithness.
NAME Sculptured Stone Museum
CENTER Meigle, Tayside
INCLUDES over 30 Pictish stones
REMARKS Guinevere, the unfaithful wife of Arthur, is
supposedly buried nearby.
NAME Montrose Museum and Art Gallery
CENTER Montrose, Angus
INCLUDES Celtic archeology / Pictish stones
NAME Clan Macpherson House and Museum
CENTER Newtonmore, Invernessshire
REMARKS The museum displays the Black Chanter that fell
from the sky and the magic Green Banner.
NAME Scone Palace
CENTER Perth
REMARKS The palace is considered to be the rightful home
of the Stone of Scone brought to Scotland from Ireland by
Kenneth MacAlpine. This was the capital of Scotland.
NAME Perth Museum and Art Gallery
CENTER Perth
INCLUDES Pictish stones
REMARKS The museum's collection includes 2 Pictish
stones, which are in the basement.
NAME Isle of Arran Heritage Museum
CENTER Rosaburn, Brodick
INCLUDES Celtic archeology / Bronze Age cist
NAME Groam House Museum
CENTER Rosemarkie, Rossshire
INCLUDES Pictish stones from the area
REMARKS The museum holds a wealth of information about
the region's history and archeology.
NAME St Vigeans Museum
CENTER St Vigeans, Tayside
INCLUDES 32 carved Pictish stones
REMARKS One of the stones includes an inscription in the
Pictish language.
NAME Thurso Folk Museum
CENTER Thurso, Caithness
REMARKS The museum includes two good examples of Pictish
stones known as the Halkirk Stone and the Ulbster Stone.
NAME Jarlshof Museums
CENTER Virkie, Shetlands
INCLUDES Bronze Age and Iron Age artifacts
SLOVAKIA
NAME Slovenské Národné Múzeum
CENTER Bratislava
INCLUDES coins / bronze belt plaque / pottery vessels
REMARKS Some of the pottery displayed is heavily
sculpted: one of the vessels is decorated with bull heads
and another has clay human hands for holding the chains for
suspending it above the fire. The collection includes
silver coins from BC 1st century.
NAME Museum Kosice
CENTER Kosice
INCLUDES gold hoard from Barca
NAME Archeologicky ustav SAV
CENTER Nitra-Hrad
INCLUDES bronze knife handle / cast bronze biceps
bracelet / enamelled belt chain with zoomorphic
decoration / fibula decorated with coral
SPAIN
NAME Castillo de San Anton
CENTER A Coruna, Galicia
INCLUDES good collection of Celtic artifacts /
reconstruction of a swanboat (coracle)
REMARKS The museum is housed in the old fortress by the
water.
NAME Museo Provincial
CENTER Avila
INCLUDES local Celtic archeology
NAME Museo Arqueologico
CENTER Barcelona
INCLUDES a few Celtic artifacts
NAME Museo de la Gaita (Bagpipe Museum)
CENTER Gijon, Asturia in Pueblo de Asturias park
INCLUDES bagpipes from around the world
REMARKS The museum is in the process of cataloguing
their collection. They also have a workshop where bagpipes
are made and repaired. Most of the collection are old but
there are some carefully-made and accurate reproductions.
NAME Lugo Provincial Museum
CENTER Lugo, Galicia
REMARKS The museum includes an impressive collection of
Celtic artifacts, including gold jewellery from Castro do
Chan.
NAME Museo Arqueologico Nacional
CENTER Madrid
INCLUDES stone sculptures / iron falcata / bronze fibulas
REMARKS The museum's collection includes Bell Beaker
artifacts, the stone sculptures known as la Dama de Elche
and la Dama de Baza and an iron falcata (the famous sword
that terrorized the Romans).
NAME Museo Arqueologico
CENTER Oviedo, Asturias
INCLUDES local finds of Celtic archeology
NAME Museo de Salamanca
CENTER Salamanca
INCLUDES carved stones / grave goods
REMARKS The museum has good displays including Bell
Beaker artifacts and finds from the local hillforts and the
city. It also has maps and well-informed staff to educate
the visitor about the Celtic past of the region.
NAME Museo do Pobo Galego
CENTER Santiago de Compostela, Galicia
INCLUDES boats / models of villages
REMARKS The exhibits are very well-displayed and
interesting, and include boats and models of villages from
different eras as well as Celtic artifacts. The museum is
housed in the old Convent San Domingos de Bonaval.
NAME Zamora Museum of Fine Arts
CENTER Zamora
INCLUDES bell beakers
REMARKS The museum holds many items of interest
including the Arrabalde treasure, an Iron Age collection of
bell beakers.
SWITZERLAND
NAME Historisches Museum
CENTER Basel
INCLUDES coins / torc / biceps bracelet / rings
REMARKS The museum includes the Saint-Louis gold hoard.
NAME Bernisches Historisches Museum
CENTER Berne
INCLUDES bronze sculpture / silver jewelry / iron weapons
REMARKS The museum includes a bronze sculpture of Artio
with a bowl of fruit facing a bear by a tree.
NAME Schwab Museum
CENTER Biel (Bienne), Berne
REMARKS The museum includes finds from the lake dwelling
of Bieler See and artifacts from the Iron Age in general.
NAME Musee d'Art et d'Histoire
CENTER Geneva
INCLUDES weapons / utensils /jewelry
REMARKS The museum has artifacts from the Bronze and
Iron Age.
NAME Great St Bernard Hospice Museum
CENTER Great St Bernard Pass, Valais
REMARKS Celtic artifacts from the local area
NAME Lake-Dwelling Museum
CENTER Hitzkirch, Lucerne - near Gelfingen
REMARKS The museum includes archeology of the Lake
Dwellers culture.
NAME Musée d'Archéologie et d'Histoire
CENTER Lausanne
INCLUDES socketed axe / winged axes / sickle / bronze
fibula / bronze bracelet / pin / antennae-
handled sword
REMARKS Included in the collection are tools and jewelry
from the Bronze Age lake settlements.
NAME Musee d'Archeologie
CENTER Neuchatel
INCLUDES bronze jewelry / iron weapons
REMARKS The museum includes artifacts excavated from the
settlement of La Tène which gave its name to the La Tène
style.
NAME Heimatmuseum
CENTER Sarnen, Unterwalden
REMARKS The museum collection includes weapons and other
artifacts of the Celtic culture.
NAME Historical Museum
CENTER St Gallen
INCLUDES prehistoric artifacts / ethnographic information
NAME Schweizerisches Landesmuseum (Swiss National
Museum)
CENTER Zurich
INCLUDES gold bowl / gold torcs / weapons / implements
REMARKS The museum includes finds from the La Tène
period.
NAME University of Zurich (Archeological Collection)
CENTER Zurich
INCLUDES Celtic archeology
UNITED
STATES of AMERICA
NAME Castleton State College Museum
CENTER Castleton, Vermont
INCLUDES phallic stones
REMARKS The museum includes a collection of phallic
stones taken from Phallus Hill, South Woodstock.
NAME Wadsworth Atheneum
CENTER Hartford, Connecticut
INCLUDES iron battle-axes
REMARKS Two Iron Age battle-axes inscribed in Tifinag
script are from the Goodwin Collection. They are thought
to have been given to battle widows and the aged in the
Iron Age. One came from Cold Harbour in Nova Scotia,
Canada and the other from Rocky Neck in Massachusetts.
NAME Metropolitan Museum of Art
CENTER New York City
INCLUDES gold torc / silver torc
REMARKS The museum includes a silver torc with
zoomorphic decoration from France and a gold torc from
Belgium.
NAME New York Museum
CENTER New York City
INCLUDES statue of a Gaul
NAME Peabody Museum
CENTER Salem, Massachusetts
REMARKS The museum includes a stone sculpture found in
Essex, Massachusetts which is very similar to Celtic stone
sculptures found in Ireland.
NAME Sturbridge Museum
CENTER Sturbridge, Massachusetts
REMARKS The museum includes a sculpture which was carved
into the bedrock at Searsmont, Maine depicting the features
of a European. The torso of the carving is still at the
site.
WALES
NAME National Library of Wales
CENTER Aberystwyth
INCLUDES black Book of Carmarthen / White Book of
Rhydderch / Book of Taliesin / Arthurian
Romances
REMARKS The library contains two million printed works,
many of which relate to Celts.
NAME Ceredigion Museum
CENTER Aberyswyth, Dyfed
INCLUDES models of a Celtic Iron Age hillfort
NAME Brecknock Society
CENTER Brecon, Powys
INCLUDES Celtic artifacts
NAME National Museum of Wales
CENTER Cardiff
INCLUDES standing stones / bronze fittings / gilt bronze
jewelry
REMARKS The museum displays carved standing stones with
ogham and swastika patterns, and artifacts of the hoards
found at the sacrificial sites of Llyn Cerrig Bach and Llyn
Fawr.
NAME Carmarthen Museum
CENTER Carmarthen, Dyfed
INCLUDES ogham stone / fibula
REMARKS The museum's collection includes an ogham stone
dedicated to Voteogorigas, a chieftain of the Desi tribe in
south Wales, an intricate fibula cast in silver and gilded
with a mixture of gold dust and mercury, as well as other
local artifacts.
NAME Blackpool Mill
CENTER Narberth, Dyfed
INCLUDES replica of the Welsh dragon
NAME The Royal Institute
CENTER Swansea
INCLUDES artifacts from the area
NAME Tenby Museum
CENTER Tenby, Dyfed
INCLUDES local artifacts
NAME Powysland Museum
CENTER Welshpool
INCLUDES numerous Celtic artifacts
YUGOSLAVIA
NAME National Museum
CENTER Belgrade, Serbia
INCLUDES prehistoric artifacts
NAME Poswski Muzej
CENTER Brezice, Lower Krika
INCLUDES decorated Celtic weapons / grave goods
NAME Narodni Muzej (National Museum)
CENTER Ljubljana, Slovenia
INCLUDES bronze bucket / bronze helmets / bronze belt /
decorated iron weapons
REMARKS Many of the Celtic artifacts are from the area
around Novo Mesto and include a bronze bucket with images
of horses, wagons, festival scenes, fistfights, etc.
NAME Dolenjski Muzej
CENTER Novo Mesto
INCLUDES colored glass beads / bronze buckets
/ gold and amber jewelry / suit of armor /
pottery
REMARKS This area was predominantly Celtic throughout
the Bronze and Iron Ages. Much of the collection consists
of finds from the local Celtic grave sites and includes
strings of colored glass beads, bronze buckets decorated
with images of horses, riders and guides, and pottery with
zoomorphic and anthropomorphic decoration. Several of the
more impressive objects were snatched away by the larger
museums such as Ljubljana and Vienna.
NAME Archeoloski Muzej
CENTER Zagreb, Croatia
INCLUDES bronze female figure / iron sword