Resurrecting the past: Virtual antiquities in the 19th century
Visit the website for access to the Pompeii Court
The project has now successfully created a virtual recreation of the Pompeii Court in the Crystal Palace exhibition. Like the original exhibition, the model is a complete life-size model of an ancient Roman house, including paintings and everyday objects, that was preserved after the eruption of mount Vesuvius.
This project aims to develop and digitise at the University of Bristol a collection of material of the Pompeii Court of the Crystal Palace in order to increase access and ensure continued preservation of up until now scattered and vulnerable but rich resources for use in teaching, learning and research.
It will make that collection useful and engaging to a range of different user groups across UK education sectors, research communities and heritage industry through an interactive, online Virtual Model, presented in the popular virtual platform Second Life, and a Website. In building the Model it aims to develop a number of innovative, interface techniques within Second Life to help different user groups engage with the material as well as to increase awareness of and stimulate research into the Crystal Palace.
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