Bonus Feaures offered at the Exploreum --- included with exhibit admission

Acoustiguide audio tour
Two tours are available; an adult tour led by experts and a family tour guided by two of Pompeii’s residents. The audio tour of A Day in Pompeii is made possible in part by a grant from the Alabama Humanities Foundation, a state program of the National Endowment of the Humanities.

Virtual Tour of Pompeii
Offered in the Exploreum’s Hearin-Chandler Virtual Journeys Theater, one floor above the Pompeii exhibit gallery.

Here, through the magic of digital technology, visitors take a virtual stroll through an area of Pompeii reconstructed by archeologists to appear as it might have before the city’s destruction. Highlighted are the Triangular Forum, the city’s large theater and the Temple of Isis. Only the Exploreum’s state-of-the-art, 40-seat digital theater reproduces images in such color and detail that audiences feel they are actually there. Many will remember the impact of the tour of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, offered during The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition.

Volcano Exhibits
Visitors explore the science of volcanoes in the Exploreum’s Minds On Hall science gallery, on the floor above the Pompeii gallery.

• IMAX Film on Ancient Greece – click here for more information.
• Pompeii Specialty Gift Shop. Visitors will exit the Pompeii gallery through the Exploreum’s exclusive “Pompeii” boutique, offering many exotic and unique items that might have been found in Pompeii’s own marketplaces.
• Café. Refreshments and light meals are also available on site at the Exploreum’s Lil Lunchbox atrium café.
• Length of Visit. With the IMAX film GREECE: SECRETS OF THE PAST, visitors should plan to spend up to 3 to 3.5 hours enjoying every aspect of the Exploreum’s Pompeii adventure package.
• No photos, food or drink allowed in the exhibit gallery.