Museum Mondays

London Mithraeum

Bloomberg Building

London, July 2024

The London Mithraeum was discovered in the 1950s during excavations in the bomb wreckage around St. Stephen's Walbook, near Bank Station, Mansion House, the Royal Exchange, and the Bank of England. It was removed from its site and moved elsewhere. When the Bloomberg Building was constructed about a decade ago, arrangements were made to move it back to its original location about 20 feet under the modern London surface and create a museum so it could be visited. It's free, but you need to make a reservation. It is very cool, and the site I link to includes film of its original discovery.

One of many things that I love about London is that you can't dig there without stumbling across Roman ruins. This is just one example.