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Front of the theater, the museum is housed in a mansion of the seventeenth century. It traces the history of Orange, from prehistory to the present. We notice a lot of archaeological, reliefs, sculptures from the theater and the triumphal arch and a large mosaic called "In the early amphorae", found in 1988 during Pourtoules, dating from the second or third century. Exceptional: the cadastre of the campaign Orangese established in the first century AD. The room has large paintings Wetter, sociological documents of prime importance that decorated the living room Wetter brothers, owners of the factory of Orange in the eighth century. They show the various stages of manufacture of the famous "Indian" designs painted cotton variety, imported from India. They knew so much success in France in the eighteenth century, that Louvois had them banned, but it was such an outcry that he had to give up his decree.