This article deals with a famous archaeological site characterized by the excavations of an exemplary quality which have long been undertaken there.Apart from its considerable interest as a site museum, Ampurias poses two general problems with respect to museum policy in general.The first is that of the sharing out of the results of any major excavation campaign. Should they be sent in their entirety to a central museum which covers and presents an entire culture of which the culture revealed by the site is a constituent part? Or should everything be handed over to a museum created at the site itself and whose mission is a local one? Or, as a third possibility, could the product of the diggings be shared between the two types of museum after appropriate consultation and exchange of services?The second problem is the question of tourism. The more visitors there are at a site—as in the case of Ampurias—the more it is polluted, the more the course of archaeological research is disturbed and the whole environment disfigured by uncontrolled urban spread. Some of the solutions to this which have already been found are mentioned here; they are ingenious and effective and merit further development.