Undergraduates & Lecturers

The model could be very useful for university students of Classics, Art and Architectural History, Nineteenth Century History and Museum Studies as both a research and learning resource. Here are some ways in which we would use the model with Classics students at Bristol:

• as a navigable database of Pompeian frescoes, allowing students to familiarise themselves with details of their subject matter, style and original location.
• as an opportunity for students to experience the spatial effects of encountering art in Roman space and the effect these surroundings have on the viewer’s assessment of the art.
• as an introduction to discussions of how ancient art has been displayed in museum settings to a modern (in this case Victorian) audience.
• as an opportunity to assess the ethics and processes of reconstruction, through physical engagement with the act of reconstruction, to reflect on it both as a conceptual and manufactured process and as a finished product specifically of Victorian England or of 21st Century digital technology.

Throughout this year, we’ll be working with a focus group of volunteer students from Bristol to assess the benefits of the Model in exploring these different topics. But we’ll also be working closely with the national Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology in order to share our findings.