Sarajevo – the opening of a unique international exhibition dedicated to Roman culture and entitled “Keys to Rome” will be held tomorrow in the Sarajevo City Hall. The mayor Ivo Komšić will open the exhibition.
This event is organized by the European “Transnational net of virtual museums” in cooperation with the Faculty of electrotechnics in Sarajevo, the National Museum of B&H and the Museum of Sarajevo.
Komšić said at today’s press conference that it is a rather unusual exhibition dedicated to the great emperor Augustus, the founder of the Roman Empire.
The coordinator of the project and the exhibition Selma Rizvić said that the exhibition will be organized at the same time in four towns; at the Imperial Forum Museum in Rome, at the Alexandrian library in Alexandria, at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam and in the Sarajevo City Hall.
She pointed out that the exhibition will be opened for visitors from September 23rd to October 23rd. After that it will be relocated to the Museum of Sarajevo and will be opened for visitors until January 18th 2015.
“The idea is to introduce narration in museums, so that every exhibited object could have a story. That is the thing visitors miss usually. The exhibition represents a virtual travelling into the Roman Empire.” – said Rizvić.
She also emphasized that this exhibition is a EU project and that it has 18 partners from 13 countries.
Rizvić said that this is the first time the visitors in B&H can see a combination of a physical and digital content and that they will have the opportunity to see the richness of museum collections through a virtual travelling via computer animations, installations, multimedia and mobile applications.
(Source: Klix)
