The Pompeii exhibition at the National Museum was busy so we had to book tickets for the next day. Not unexpected at this time, even if the road around Canberra suggest there's no-one in town. Mostly visitors, I guess. I like this time in Canberra. The ticket seller suggested we'd only need under an hour because Pompeii is more AV-heavy than the recent Egypt exhibition and having fewer objects with labels to read. Then on entry we were advised Vesuvius had just erupted but it would repeat in ~12 minutes. Amusing. We entered to watch an intro video and see a statue of Venus and then the eruption and that was a killer, all threat then smoke then pumice imaged on the walls around us. Quite informative, really. I'd been on the slopes of Etna a few months after an eruption and seen the demolished cafe and walked the parched earth, but the suddenness of this, even in video, was instructive. Then some more statues and bowls and casts of dead bodies and mosaics and wall paintings, a few real, and some little paint bowls which I'd never seen before and a stunning set of dice laid out just like ours and some statues of gods and satyrs and more videos. The NMA website suggests it's actually a repeat of derivative of an original "Pompeii immersive" exhibition. Not the greatest exhibition ever but the topic is fascinating and the videos are informative and the items on display were great to see up close. I enjoyed it.
The Pompeii exhibition is at the National Museum of Australia.
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