Draft:Museum of Archaeology, University of Lorraine

The Archaeological Museum of the Université de Lorraine (French: Musée Archéologique de l'Université de Lorraine, MAUL) is a university museum located in Nancy, managed by the Université de Lorraine. It is home to a collection of archaelogical objects.

History of the museum
The core of the museum dates back to 1904, with its foundation by Paul Perdrizet, archaeology and art history professor at the Université de Nancy. At the time, it was located at the corner of Place Carnot and Rue de Serre, in the old building of the university library.

Most of its 470 casts of Greek and Roman sculptures were destroyed in the German bombing of 31 October 1918. Until 1945, the museum's collections were preserved. In 1939-1940, they were stored in crates due to the German offensive. Many of them were lost during the war. Today, items from the collection are still being returned to the museum.

The current collections, completed by donations, long-term loans, and acquisitions, have been based in Building A of the Nancy Humanities and Social Science campus since 1965.

On 17 February 2018, a temporary exhition on the use of altars in antique sacrifices was presented by Sandrine Huber, former curator of the museum. This exhibition ended on 15 January 2019. Conferences have also been organized at the MAUL since 2015.

In June 2018, the site became a school-museum, offering a multidisciplinary educational space for Humanities students and teachers. After three years of collaborative work, the new school-museum was inaugurated on 26 June 2018.

Collections
Of the 650 items displayed, more than 400 belong to the university; most of the others are long-term loans from the Louvre Museum.

Among others, the museum exhibits Greek and Etruscan ceramics, oil lamps, terra cotta figurines, metal objects and Roman coins.

Several display cases were designed by the Etablissement Émile Gallé, the workshop founded by Émile Gallé, whose daughter was married to Perdrizet.

The museum is open every week day during the academic year, thanks to the art history student association Cercle d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie. The students of the organisation introduce the public to the collections, during group visits and one-on-one tours.