This came up some time last year and I thought it would be good for the mother type person and me to go see.
So we did!
Statue of Apollo
Statuette of Venus
Carbonised bread
Situla (storage vessel) encrusted in lapilli (dried lava stones)
Statuette of Minerva
Nymphaeum
Alabaster hydria (water jar)
Casts of people and a dog formed by the pyroclastic ash. The bodies decomposed leaving an empty shell in the solidified ash.
Garden scene fresco
Fresco of Pegasus, Bellerephon and Athena
Herms (carved pillars) featuring Bacchus as an old and young man
Gold necklace
Every fifteen minutes Vesuvius erupts. The big screen at the end of the room and the screens along the sides of the room all show the event
Pumice stones raining down
So yeah it was a pretty good exhibition. Tony and Jo went the other week and said it was crazy busy so I was expecting it to be bad, but it actually wasn't too bad. It wasn't nearly as bad as the Pharaohs exhibition in Sydney. Kellie said the Egypt one in Canberra was also a lot better than the Sydney one. Maybe they just don't oversell the tickets in Canberra, but also you didn't have the nonsense of audio tours where people would just stop in front of stuff and not MOVE. Hurray for Canberra! heh
Sylvia Johnson
It was great re-visiting the Pompeii exhibition again through your blog. You have some great photos and lots of detail, that I didn't bother with. The casts of the deceased family still blows me away.