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December 2024
This issue of The Museum magazine is a companion to the National Museum of Australia’s major summer exhibition, Pompeii: Inside a Lost City. We take you behind the scenes in the development and delivery of the exhibition and introduce leading experts contributing to our global knowledge of the ancient city.
Articles also explore the idea of Italian culture being reimagined or recreated anew. In particular, we focus on individuals whose passion for classical design or Roman culture more broadly has shaped the way we live in Australia today.
Selected contents:
• Curator Lily Withycombe on selecting objects with rich afterlives to tell relatable personal stories of Pompeii.
• Members of the international team behind the Pompeii immersive experience take you on a journey to digitally reconstruct the ancient city.
• Estelle Lazer reveals how her study of plaster casts and skeletal remains offers ways to remember and respect the victims of Pompeii.
• Farrell Monaco engages all the senses in her guide to the food culture of a Roman city in the first-century CE.
• Walking the streets of the Pompeii site without the crowds and at magical times of day in Sophie Hay’s captivating photo essay.
• Craig Barker goes pop Pompeii as he examines the city’s afterlife in popular culture.
• Leigh Franks reveals how oral traditions of First Nations people are deepening our understandings of the volcanic history of Australia, and Gugu Badhun Elder Yvonne Cadet-James shares stories about the black basalt of her Country.
• Kate Morschel, curator of Variations on the Classical, finds the cultures of antiquity reimagined in Australia through objects from the Museum’s collection.
• Silvia Colloca reflects on how bread has been at the centre of the Italian table since ancient times.
• The classical principles that have guided Paul Bangay in designing gardens in Australia and around the world.
• Reflections on architect Enrico Taglietti and his domus-inspired design for the Italian Ambassador’s residence in Canberra.
Publication details
ISSN 2200-2472
112 pages
National Museum of Australia December 2024
Cover image: Vesuvius, 1985, by Andy Warhol. © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. ARS/Copyright Agency, 2024
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