The Museum Complex of Adamclisi includes the Roman fortress, the museum and the triumphal monument. The fortress was founded after the wars of Dacia’s conquest by Trajan were completed. One of the battles of 102 AD took place here. Tropaeum Traiani became a municipality in 170. The fortress was rebuilt by Licinius and Constan­tin in 321, pursuant to the destructions inflicted by the invasions of migratory peoples. Trajan’s monument was restored in 1977.

A tumul and an altar devoted to the Romans who had died in the battle of 102 were researched near the monu­ment. Grigore Tocilescu said that the monument was “a birth certificate of the Romanian people”.

Designed as a lapidarium, the museum’s building includes archaeological vestiges discovered in the fortress and nearby. The museum exhibits original items of the trophy, including the colossal statue, the inscription and the frieze with arms. Other exhibits include ceramic collections (including Roman and Byzantine amphorae), candles, tools, adornments, fragments of aqueducts, sculpture, epigraphic documents.

 
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