EXHIBITION RESOURCES

Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples
Exhibition information, events, and resources
www.nga.gov/pompeii

Film
The 30-minute film created to accompany this exhibition may be borrowed from the National Gallery of Art for a two-week period. Please order one month ahead.
Order DVD or Videocassette

Studio Workshops
Middle school and high school students can explore the exhibition and participate in a studio project.

Teacher Workshops
This after-school program is offered on February 4 and 11, 2009.

Self-Guided Group Registration and Tips
Teachers are welcome to guide their students through the Pompeii and the Roman Villa exhibition independently. Please complete the self-guided group form at least four weeks prior to your visit (it assists museum staff in preventing overcrowding in the galleries). Be sure to indicate whether you would like to receive information describing teaching resources at the Gallery. You can use the Discovery Guides to help you identify good starting and stopping locations for your visit. If you are visiting with a group of more than 30, please stagger students' entry times into the exhibition.

BOOKS

Joanne Berry, The Complete Pompeii (2007).
The title says it all: information about all aspects of the town, its people, and history. Copiously illustrated.

James M. Deem, Bodies from the Ash (2005).
Learn more about what happened in Pompeii and Herculaneum by "reading" the bodies. More interesting—and less creepy—than it sounds! Written for young audiences but with wide appeal.

Joseph Jay Deiss, The Town of Hercules: A Buried Treasure Trove (1995).
Why should Pompeii get all the attention? Because of the circumstance of its burial, Herculaneum preserves wood, papyrus, and other materials not found in its more famous neighbor. Written for young people, but useful for all audiences.

Robert Harris, Pompeii: A Novel (2003).
Historical fiction set in the days before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. An engineer in the city water works investigates mysterious natural phenomena and man-made corruption.

Chris Rice and Melanie Rice, Pompeii: The Day a City was Buried (1998).
From DK Discoveries, a family's experiences on a fateful day. For kids 7 and up.

Simon James, Ancient Rome (2000).
From DK Eyewitness Books, a wide look at Roman life, not only in Pompeii but across the empire and in centuries after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. For kids 7 and up.

WEB SITES

www.pompeiisites.org
The Web site of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei features virtual tours, a feature for kids, news, and a lot more. Includes Pompeii and other sites. English and Italian.

www.forumromanum.org/index2.html
Access to two classic works on Roman life and history, a detailed genealogy of the gods, and more.

www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html
The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook—a trove of texts (in English and Latin), images, and links to a wide range of topics.

www.volcano.si.edu
See what Vesuvius and other volcanoes worldwide have been up to from the Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program.

Learn more about Roman art from the Web sites of museums with outstanding ancient collections, including the British Museum, the Louvre, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.