Melbourne Museum’s ROME: Empire, Power, People exhibition is already open. This exhibition, whether in artifact level, scale, or curation, is top-level presentation of Roman culture in Australia! The exhibition fully presents the history of the Roman Empire after Caesar, from rise to fall.
It brings together 180 pieces from Italy’s two top museums, Roman National Museum & Florence Archaeological Museum. 179 of them are showing in Australia for the first time!
Today we went to the Roman Empire exhibition preview at Melbourne Museum. It’s absolutely mind-blowing!
From the sculptures right at the entrance to each exhibition room and themed setup, it really instantly took me to the Roman Empire era and Italy’s historical stage.
Yesterday a friend was still cramming me on ancient Roman Empire history, he said the history is very long but also very interesting.
Talking about each period and every building and today I actually saw them in the exhibition.
The exhibition also used then-and-now projections. Quickly showing the most famous classic buildings, silently changing over time.
We really loved the Roman baths and Colosseum presentation. The exhibition used sound, lighting, and props to make visitors feel fully immersed and we could sit in the baths area all day!
Melbourne Museum is always so thoughtful! In important sections there are explanation boards specially for kids. Turning boring, hard-to-understand professional terms into something simple.
It is also very suitable for people whose English isn’t their first language.
After finishing, the gift shop was unexpectedly good to browse. Of course no one can escape the Italian vibes! All kinds of small items, decorations, clothes are just amazing.
The Melbourne Roman Empire exhibition runs from April 1 to October 25.
Highly recommend friends in Australia to check it out.