The Musée Saint-Raymond is an archaeological museum in Toulouse, one of the most important in the city. Inaugurated in 1892, the site was originally a necropolis, to then build a building that over time has had various functions, from a hospital for the poor and pilgrims, to a prison, a student residence, a presbytery, to finally become, in 1891, a museum. The building has been renovated and rebuilt several times. Today it preserves the archaeological collection from proto-history to the beginning of the Middle Ages, especially of the Celtic, Roman and proto-Christian populations and above all of the territory around Toulouse. The sculptures come from the ancient Roman Villa of Chiragan, during the excavations carried out between 1826 and 1830. Part of the collection also came from the ancient Académie des sciences, inscriptions et belles-lettres de Toulouse and the Royal Collection sacked during the French Revolution and partly also taken to Toulouse. Today, the museum has been greatly enriched by donations and acquisitions. The collection includes items such as bracelets, fibulae, Bronze Age jewels; terracotta vases and figurines of the Cypriot, Etruscan, Greek and Italian populations; a rich collection of the Roman age including various objects, statues, busts and bas-reliefs, which makes it the second largest collection of ancient Roman art in France. Finally, the collection also includes artistic artifacts from the origins of various civilizations that have been on the territory, including the Greeks, the Gauls, the Celts, the Iberians, the Byzantines and the Merovingians.