The National Roman Legion Museum is located in Caerleon, near Newport, in South East Wales.

Wales was historically an important Roman legion and is located within what was once a fortress.

The Museum contains many finds from the period of Isca Augusta of the Legio II Augusta: from Roman coins to uniforms.

Originally, the first building to be annexed to the museum was the 1850 Antiques Museum: built to a design by HF Lockwood of Hull, it was nothing more than a simple box-shaped building in Bath stone with a Doric columned portico Greek.

In 1951 the museum building was classified as historic but was largely demolished during the reconstruction and extension of the museum in 1987. Now only the portico remains of the original structure.

Not far from the museum there are also part of the military baths in the Roman Baths Museum, the most complete Roman amphitheater in Great Britain, some sections of the fortress walls and the only remains in all of Europe of a Roman legionary barracks.