The recovery of the Roman Theater of Cartagena, financed by the Fundación Teatro Romano (Roman Theater Foundation), has planned the integration of the theater remains in the urban tracing as well as its effective conservation and exhibition with didactic and cultural purposes. Also the importance and quality of the pieces found during the successive campaigns of excavation in the Theater remains, has created a new exhibition space, the Roman Theater’s Museum.

The museum is not an only suitable exhibition area, but, in the brilliant design by the architect Rafael Moneo, it allows to take the visitors from La plaza del Ayuntamiento (The Town hall Square) up inside the monument.

Whith the entrance, placed opposite the Town Hall, the museum is divided in two separate buildings connected by an underground passage, that allows to incorporate the Pascual de Riquelme Palace and an archaeological corridor under the Church of St. María la Vieja, becoming the Theater at the latest and most striking piece of the museum.