Project Manager
Leander, Anne-MarieProject manager
Lund UniversityAmount granted
126 667 SEKYear
2012
Millesgården and the Swedish Pompeii Project at Lund University have initiated a collaboration based on the Swedish archaeologists' excavations in Pompeii. The project involves a large popular science exhibition with finds from the Swedish archaeological group's research room - a Pompeian quarter, combined with a staging of the Pompeian house and various expressions of inspiration created after Swedish cultural workers' encounters with the site. It will be an exhibition about Pompeii as a place, about archaeology as science, but perhaps mostly about experience and interpretation. In the exhibition, original objects - borrowed from the Archaeological Museum in Naples, 3-D modeling and art will be mixed. Part of the exhibition will be artist Ola Billgren's Pompeian Suite. Various texts will be produced for the exhibition, including a magazine designed as a lifestyle magazine. It will include articles on the "banker" Caecilius Iucundus, on Italian food, on travel, on the plumbing of Pompeii. High and low are dressed in graphic forms borrowed from popular culture. Putting on this exhibition at Millesgården is congenial in two ways. Firstly, the art gallery is built in the form of an atrium house, and secondly, there are many environments in the artist's home that are neo-Pompeian, directly inspired by Pompeii. The project is innovative because it aims to bridge the gap between the university and the museum. It overcomes the distance and uses research in a direct and communicative way directly towards the visitor.