LEGO Pompeii @ Nicholson Museum

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Sat 10 Jan 2015 - Sun 15 Nov 2015

Above is a photo of one of the early stages of the development of the Lego Pompeii exhibition. It shows LED lighting going in to backlight the lava and hopefully it also fires your imagination about the possibilities of using Lego to recreate the antiquarian past.

The exhibition itself is under wraps until January 10th 2015 when it has its grand opening at Sydney University's Nicholson Museum.



This model of Pompeii, one of the largest ever built, is being made for the Nicholson Musem by LEGO Professional Builder Ryan McNaught (also fondly known as The Brickman).

McNaught and his team have had a busy year as they also created Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO Bricks , an exhibition comprising 18 famous towering buildings from Asia and Australia (now showing at the Sydney Museum.)

The model of Pompeii recreates the moment of destruction on August 24, A.D. 79, when the Roman city of Pompeii was buried by the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The ash that horrifically ended life in Pompeii also embedded the city in a virtual time capsule. So that today Pompeii is one of the most intact archaeological sites in the world.

It was rediscovered in the 1700s, and today thousands of tourists walk through there each day looking not only at artefacts and buildings but the encased bodies.

This exhibition should certainly whet children's appetite for history and archaeology by marrying it with their modern passion for LEGO building.

As with other exhibitions that have occurred at the Nicholson Museum in the last few years, such as McNaught's, LEGO Colosseum and LEGO Acropolis , Pompeii will include a pastiche that includes fact and fiction, history and pop culture. Kids will have plenty to look out for to keep them amused including spotting: Pink Floyd in concert at the Amphiteatre, Mozart in the Temple of Isis, archaeologist Steven Ellis, Doctor Who and his TARDIS, Admiral of the Fleet Pliny the Elder, vulcanologist and antiquarian Sir William Hamilton and 'Indiana Bones' Estelle Lazer

The official opening of the LEGO Pompeii exhibition is on 10 Jan 2015 from 12 until 4pm and will provide plenty of super-cool activities including the chance to handle artefacts, meet archaeologists, dress up as warriors and for visitors to build their own LEGO creations.



But if you can't make that this educational, exciting and free event the exhibition will be on throughout this year. The great thing about this exhibition is that (unlike the Lego Towers exhibition) this fantastic exhibitions totally free.

Please note the following opening hours for the January period and beyond.

January Opening Hours 2015

Saturday
10 Jan
12 – 4 pm

Sunday
11 Jan
Closed

Monday to Friday
12 Jan – 16 Jan
10 – 4.30 pm

Saturday
17 Jan
12 – 4 pm

Sunday
18 Jan
Closed

Monday to Friday
19 Jan – 23 Jan
10 – 4.30 pm

Saturday
24 Jan
12 – 4 pm

Sunday
25 Jan
Closed

Monday (Australia Day)
26 Jan
Closed

Tuesday to Friday
27 – 30 Jan
10 – 4.30 pm

Saturday
31 Jan
12 – 4 pm

Regular opening hours
Monday to Friday
10 – 4.30 pm
First Saturday of the month
12 – 4 pm
Other Saturdays, Sunday and Public Holidays
Closed

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!date 10/01/2015 -- 15/11/2015
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