Overview

• The exhibition opens on June 15 at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum and Stadtmuseum Simeonstift Trier and will run until November 23, 2025.
• It brings together about 400 items from 17 countries with prestigious loans from the Louvre, Vatican Museums and British Museum.
• A highlight is a fragment of the oldest surviving Greek manuscript of Aurelius’s Meditations discovered in a Mosel church.
• Curators explore his multifaceted career as emperor, military commander and Stoic philosopher by examining themes of governance and personal resilience.
• Trier underscores its Roman roots through the Porta Nigra city gate, which was constructed during Marcus Aurelius’s reign, as a central exhibit