The sculptures on display in this room come from a building on the Rambla Nova known as the "Forn del Cigne". In Roman times the seat of the collegium fabrum was here and on excavation the site yielded many sculptures, inscriptions and decorative items for buildings.

The fabri were the construction workers of the Roman world and, like other artisans, they belonged to a collegium.

The collegium was a voluntary association formed to look after and defend the rights and professional interests of its members. It also organised the worship of one or various divinities and arranged funerary rites and a dignified burial for its members.

The associates of the collegium fabrum normally also had the job of firefighters in the towns. The majority of associations had a headquarters, or schola, where meetings were held, religious festivities were celebrated and official and private ceremonies were held.

We know little about the type of building that normally housed the scholae. From inscriptions we know that some were in the form of a temple. Others had an atrium, peristyle and garden. Essential elements in a schola were benches for the members to sit on, tricilinia to hold banquets in and an altar to pay homage to the gods.

In the rooms there were statues of the god-protector of the corporation, the genius of the collegium and other divinities, as well as representations of the emperor and the master of the corporation.

The fragments of column found in the "Forn del Cigne" lead us to believe that the schola of the collegium fabrum of Tàrraco had a peristyle, although the localization of a fountain in one of its walls appears to indicate that it only had arches on three sides.

This small nymphaeum was decorated with sculptures expressing the recreational character of the collegium. The head of Minerva, the divine protector of artisans, and the small sculpture of the genius collegii tell us of its corporate nature and its obligations as the city's fire service. The head of Claudius and the armoured bust, probably representing Hadrian, are evidence of the allegiance that all associations were obliged to show to the Emperor. From the dates of these statues and inscriptions, we can assume that the schola was already in existence by at least the beginning of the 2nd century AD.