There is time until Nov. 18 to immerse yourself in Trajan's Rome. Exhibition on Trajan extended

The exhibition Trajan. Building the Empire, Creating Europe opened at the Markets of Trajan on November 29, 2017 and was supposed to end these days, but thanks to its 120,000 visitors, it has been extended until November 18.

The exhibition unfolds through statues, portraits, architectural decorations, casts of Trajan’s Column, gold and silver coins, scale models and three-dimensional reworkings, and films-a challenge to immerse oneself in the great History of the Empire and the stories of the many who made it possible.

II exhibition path winds through 7 sections starting with the death of Trajan, which occurred in Asia Minor and, the only case in Roman history, celebrated with triumph in the capital along with his deeds. It continues with the contrast between the bloody campaigns in Dacia (part of present-day Romania) and the great works carried out with peace, from the role of the women of the family (the emperor’s true “right arm” for social policy) to the private spaces, to the “fortune” of the figure of Trajan after antiquity, due to his reputation as a just man, the most “Christian” among the pagans, decent and charitable.

Thanks to new technologies and storytelling, also protagonists of the setting and content, visitors find themselves immersed in the world of Trajan. The ’emperor, or rather his ghost, impersonated by an actor, introduces them to the life of theoptimus princeps. Scents, petals, and the noise of the crowd will give the visitor the same sensations that the people of Rome felt during a triumph; stelae of soldiers come alive to show the labors of living and dying of the legionnaires engaged in Trajan’s wars of conquest; one listens to descriptions of Rome’s enemies, the barbarians (antagonists first, protagonists later in the fate of the empire) and the voices of the women of the royal family, committed to social work and entrepreneurs. And, again, thanks to augmented reality and immersive videos, Trajan’s monuments and the fire of the flames from which Trajan was saved through the intercession of Gregory the Great come to life.

The exhibition also makes use of multimedia and interactive installations that have been created thanks to the collaborations that the Capitoline Superintendence has activated for research, study and dissemination purposes with Duke University, Department of Classical Studies, Dig@Lab, with the scientific coordination of M. Forte, the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando(Madrid, Spain), Laboratorio de Humanidades Digitales with the coordination of J. M. Luzon, the ICT Division of the Department of Energy Technologies ofENEA within the CO.B.R.A. project(COnservation of Cultural Heritage, with the application of Radiation and Enabling Technologies), responsible A. Quintiliani.
Also starting Sept. 25, appointments with Trajan’s Tuesdays, days of studies, conferences, and lectures on issues related to the figure ofOptimus Princeps and beyond, held by curators and colleagues from national and international Museums and Universities, will resume in the museum’s conference room. This new cycle will touch on current topics such as the protection, enhancement and communication of cultural heritage. First appointment, Tuesday, Sept. 25 at 3:45 p.m. with the conference entitled The Sphere of the Sacred: Cults and Religiosity in the Danubian Provinces curated by Lucia Cianciulli.

Second appointment with the conference on Monday, Oct. 1 at 3:45 p.m. titled In the Heritage Year: Renewal, Communication and Associational Perspectives of Archaeological Museums. Outside speakers will include Trinidad Nogales Basarrate, Marta Novello, Valentino Nizzo, and Cristina Loglio.
By purchasing the new MIC Card at a cost of 5 euros, those living and studying in Rome can have unlimited access for 12 months to the Museums in the City and the historic, artistic and archaeological sites of the Superintendency. You will be able to admire the permanent collections, visit temporary exhibitions, and participate for free in events, guided tours and educational activities included in the cost of the museum entrance fee.
For all information you can visit the Trajan’s Markets website by clicking here.

There is time until Nov. 18 to immerse yourself in Trajan's Rome. Exhibition on Trajan extended

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