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The archeological museum is located in the hamlet of Viuz, just outside the town of Faverges (Haute Savoie) halfway between Annecy and Albertville. The modern hamlet of Viuz, whose name derives from the Latin name Vicus, is built within the perimeter of the Roman town of Casuaria, which lies under parts of both modern-day Viuz and Faverges. Numerous Gallo-Roman artifacts have been excavated since the mid-1980s and put on display. The museum is operated by Les Amis de Viuz-Faverges (AVF), a non-profit group that conducts archeological digs in the Faverges area. Volunteers provide thousands of hours of service yearly to preserve the history of Faverges and of the Savoie region.

The gallo-roman (3rd c. CE) cauldron found at Le Thovey is on display at the Musée de Viuz

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The old Roman Turin-Geneva road ran past the present-day museum, at the foot of the Roche de Viuz mountain. When French highway planners decided to build a highway bypass over the path of the old Roman road in the late 1980s, a rapid salvage dig was conducted before the area was to be paved over. A row of small devotional shrines and temples was found just 100 meters behind the museum; numerous devotional objects (ex-votos), statuettes and coins were found before the temples were reburied to become the foundation of the modern highway. These artifacts are currently being studied, and some are on display in the museum.

Temple walls seen here, over 2 meters high, now lie buried along the new "rocade" (high-speed bypass) just east of Viuz. In this temple and nearby shrines were found numerous ex-votos, including a terra-cotta head of an unidentified deity and a small bronze dog (or wolf or fox) whose purpose is not yet understood.

 

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