Museum recovers historical treasure in 4 hours: ‘Shortest exhibition ever’

The show of Roman service in Nistelrode lasted solely 4 hours. The Nistelrode Bronze Treasure was found by probability twenty years in the past throughout excavation work for the development of the A50 and has since been displayed within the Nationwide Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. On Saturday, the 30-piece tableware would return to their ‘house city’ in Brabant for per week.

Nevertheless, the dearth of security threw a spanner within the works. A naked village home with empty show instances and a few brochures is all that continues to be of the exhibition, says disenchanted Henk Geurts. Broadcast Brabant. He’s a member of the native historical past circle who spent years getting ready to carry the treasure to Nistelrode for per week.

Final Saturday the opening was held within the city corridor, with invited friends and the media. “This place is a couple of hundred meters from the invention website,” says Geurts.

The preliminary safety test was fantastic, says Geurts. However when he was at a celebration on Saturday night time, after the opening, he acquired a name from the councillor. The artwork treasure couldn’t keep within the city corridor for safety causes.

In reality, the Bronze Medal was already on its method again to Leiden. “I assumed it was a joke at first flabbergasted. Robust phrases had been mentioned then,” says Geurts.

The city corridor had not handed a second safety inspection on Thursday. The accountable councilor Marius Tielemans knew this, however let the opening go forward with out telling the native organizers. He doesn’t wish to reply questions on why he did it this manner.

Geurts is offended and unhappy. “Now we have labored so lengthy to make this doable. There have been two safety guards right here within the city corridor once I closed on Saturday afternoon. They’d keep right here day and night time, and so I assumed: it is simply secure right here.”

Residents throughout Nistelrode are offended, says Geurts. “I acquired a lot negativity from the village throughout the Pentecost holidays that I made a decision to go house.”

The 2004 discovery of tableware from the Roman interval was distinctive: by no means earlier than had a bronze treasure of so many objects been discovered within the Netherlands. Most of the objects had been used within the preparation, serving and consuming of wine. They’re thought to this point again to the third century AD. The proprietor buried the dear vessels with nice care, in all probability to stop them from being stolen.

The Nationwide Museum of Antiquities in Leiden doesn’t wish to say what was unsuitable with safety. “We don’t make any statements about issues of safety. We additionally suppose it’s a nice pity that it was solely proven for at some point. There are solely losers right here.”

In Nistelrode there may be an exhibition concerning the treasure, with three replicas of it. They stay there, however “in fact that is not the actual treasure”.