Beauty and tragedy of first century Pompeii coming to KC’s Union Station

Sep 19, 2016 577

The ground will shake for visitors to Union Station's next big traveling exhibit, which will include a "4D eruption theater" to simulate the natural disaster that preserved the Roman city of Pompeii under volcanic ash.

The new traveling show is comprised of nearly 200 artifacts from the Naples National Archaeological Museum. It includes a half-dozen plaster casts that capture the heart-breaking last moments of people who could not escape as gas, fire and pumice rained down.

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