THE ROMAN 'STATUE HABIT'

PAST EVENT

Sat 19 Jul 2025, 2–3pm

At the Museum

This talk takes place in-person at the Museum

Meet in the Randolph Sculpture Gallery 22

This past event has now taken place

With Dr Alison Pollard Outreach Officer, School of Classics, University of Oxford

This interactive gallery talk takes a close up look at Roman (with a touch of Greek) sculpture and examines why people in the ancient world commissioned, bought and set up marble statues.

Using the first significant collection of ancient sculpture ever brought together in Britain, we’ll investigate what drove the people of the Roman empire to fill their domestic and public spaces with brightly-coloured sculpture.