Professor Kylie Message-Jones has written about the National Museum of Australia's current blockbuster exhibition "Pompeii: Inside a Lost City" for The Conversation. 

"[This exhibition] at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra depicts life in the flourishing Roman city of Pompeii before it was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. It pictures an ancient city frozen in time, eerily preserved by volcanic ash...It offers a crucial opportunity for contemporary audiences to look at a lost city from the perspective of a world on the verge of collapse"

"[It] makes the case that distant civilisations are not too far from our own. But by placing us in a highly immersive exhibition we are – despite its opposite intention – disconnected from our own daily lives, and the true connection we have to the past."

Read the full article online here.