ROME: Empire, Power, People – Teacher Event

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Speak with Ancient Rome experts, get a sneak peek at education resources and take the opportunity to explore this incredible new exhibition in a special event just for teachers.

Overview Gallery AITSL Standards Curriculum links Museum Teachers
Ring with Goat, gold, chalcedony and agate
Ring with Goat, gold, chalcedony and agate, 1st century CE / Photo: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze

Key details

Date/Time:
Friday 17 April 2026, 11am to 1pm
Location:
Melbourne Museum
Cost:
$30 Museum Teachers
$40 for non Museum Teachers

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Overview

To celebrate the opening of ROME: Empire, Power, People, we have invited some special guests to share their insights and expertise on the Roman Empire with history teachers.

Teachers will hear from Museums Victoria Collections Manager, Nick Crotty and Dr Rhiannon Evans, host of the popular podcast Emperors of Rome and Adjunct Associate Professor, Classics & Ancient History at La Trobe University.

These two experts will provide invaluable insights into the Roman Empire and inspire you with ideas and information to take back to your classroom!

Following a Q+A session, where your most pressing questions about the Roman Empire will be answered, teachers will have the opportunity to explore this spectacular new exhibition at their own pace.

This very special event has limited availability and is sure to book out. Register your interest now!

This professional learning session includes

  • How the new exhibition Rome: Empire, Power, People can bring the Roman Empire to life for your students

  • How to encourage critical, creative and historical thinking in students with artefacts and objects

  • The hidden stories in Roman coins and what they can tell us about this period of history

  • The relevance and importance of the Roman Empire

Teachers will be provided

  • Education resources and booklets made exclusively for Rome: Empire, Power, People

  • The chance to ask questions of expert guests, Dr Rhiannon Evans and Nick Crotty

  • Resources and useful tools for using objects in the History classroom

  • Entry to ROME: Empire, Power, People included in ticket price

Gallery

Stone mask of the roman god Jupiter. Fresco From The Hypogeum Of The Octavians Ring with Goat, gold, chalcedony and agate Gold pair of roman earrings Relief featuring Dioscure beside a horse in front of a roman arch. roman gold ring Stone statue of the roman goddess Aphrodite. Carved stone head of Emperor Augustus. Small bronze statue of the goddess Venus. The limbless and headless statue of a torso of an athletic male. Marble statue of the bust of the roman goddess Athena. Marble Sarcophagus with carved scenes of prisoners. Gold coin featuring the profile of the emperor Caracalla Bronze wax seal maker in the shape of a foot from the Imperial age

AITSL Standards

2.1 - Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area 

6.2 - Engage in professional learning and improve practice 

6.3 - Engage with colleagues and improve practice 

7.4 - Engage with professional teaching networks and broader communities 

Curriculum links

History: Levels 7 and 8  

Investigation: Ancient societies (10 000 BCE – 600 CE)  

features and organisation of ancient societies, significant groups, their perspectives and their roles in influencing and changing society VC2HH8K13 

significant beliefs, values, places and practices of an ancient society and their continuity and change over time, such as everyday life, worldviews, warfare, or death and funerary customs VC2HH8K14  

significant events or turning points in an ancient society and their contribution to continuity and change VC2HH8K15 

causes and consequences of contacts and conflicts within and/or with other societies, resulting in developments such as the conquest of other lands, the expansion of trade and peace treaties VC2HH8K16 

the role, contribution and achievements of a significant individual or group to change an ancient society VC2HH8K17 

interpretations of the significance of an ancient society and/or individual and their legacies VC2HH8K18  

Historical significance   

analyse the significance of individuals, events, sites, developments and/or cultural achievements VC2HH8S09  

VCE HISTORY   

Units 3 and 4: Ancient History 

Area of Study 2: People in power, societies in crisis  

VCE Classical Studies  

Unit 2: Classical Worlds 

Area of Study 2: Expressing classical cultures  

Unit 3: Classical Expressions  

 Area of Study 2: Material Culture  

 

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