New exhibit brings ancient Rome to the Tri-State

CINCINNATI - This spring, you can spend a day in an ancient Roman city, without ever leaving the Tri-State.

A new exhibit called "A Day In Pompeii" is coming to the Cincinnati Museum Center. On Tuesday, exhibit staff, Italian artifact couriers and art handlers will uncrate, inspect and install two of the final ancient artifacts for the exhibit. "A Day In Pompeii" opens to the public March 2.

At the new exhibit, visitors can see a collection of more than 250 priceless ancient artifacts from the Roman city of Pompeii and its surrounding areas.  In A.D. 79, Pompeii was frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, burying everything in its path for more than 1,700 years.

Museum officials say Pompeii's archeological treasures rarely leave Italy and Cincinnati Museum Center is only one of four stops, and the only regional venue for this national touring exhibit. At the exhibit t here are room-sized frescos, marble and bronze sculptures, jewelry, gold coins and body casts of the volcano's victims.

The Cincinnati Museum Center is located at 1301 Western Ave.