page_title: Cemetery museum
section_title: Archaeological sites
hierarchical_section_title: Cemetery museum / Archaeological sites
caption_attribution_description: English: Domus Romana, Wesgħa tal-Mużew in Mdina, Malta
context_page_description: A cemetery museum is a graveyard where the campo santo itself is the museum. As most other types of museums its purpose is to educate the visitor, in this case, in the history of the cemetery and/or the people interred in it. It does this by raising public interest of the cemetery, exposing the role it may have played at some point in history, and by promoting the history behind it. They are generally cemeteries that have become tourist attractions. Given their nature, cemetery museums fall under the broader category of open air museums.
context_section_description: Some cemetery museums, like the Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center and the Royal Cemetery at Ur are actually so ancient they are archaeological sites in addition to open-air cemetery museums, and their archaeological findings may be on display either within the cemetery itself or in museums far away, including in other countries. Such museums specialize in the display of artifacts and memorabilia related to archaeological excavations in tombs. Some cemetery museums, like the Museum of Roman Antiquities have experienced the opposite fate and become the central location for cemetery artifacts from other site, even from non cemetery or cemetery museums.
  Still other cemetery museums are known for the uniqueness of their tombs. For example, the Merry Cemetery has gained notoriety for the colorfulness of the tombs that make it up.
caption: Partial view of the Museum of Roman Antiquities, an archaeological site
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