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- It is one of the most beautiful monuments of the Roman Age in France,

- the Pont du Gard has been proposing a unique museum with the reconstruction of the reality, a virtual image in order to better understand what the Roman time of its construction was.

- Jean Peyzieu and Claude Barnier now propose a special visit starting from the top.

- The Roman aqueduct of Nimes as you never it.

- Shot by a film-maker hung on a flying wing, here are, through the scrubland, the remains of the piece of art that transported water from Uzès to Nîmes,

- here the Pont du Gard.

- An overview on screen that is one of the of the highlight of the “grande expo”.

- This museum absolutely delights me because this new way of making museums is extraordinary!

- You can hear noises, you can see reconstructions, I think it’s great!

- Here the building site of the aqueduct is recreated with the quarries from where the blocks were extracted, assembled to form the 3rd floor of the Pont du Gard.

- The restitution is done on a real scale, the blocks were resin-made by movie decorators under the control of scientists.

- In the same area they are side by side with the quarrymen’s tools of the time, that changed little along the centuries and films.

- A film recalls Roman building, another the modern techniques that made the occupations of the stone evolve.

- That’s very important to show this permanency of this work of stones

- when it has changed in the 20th century but otherwise during centuries the work of stones was identical

- and it’s interesting to look at the Roman Age going through images of today.

- Water, brought to Nîmes by the aqueduct, built during Emperor Augustus’s reign.

- It is the other main theme of the exhibition.

- Wall projection, almost real decoration, scale model, all the resources of museography are used to show the importance of water in the Roman houses.

- The best, it is data processing, 3D pictures.

- It is the view of a town in Roman time,

- but more precisely the view a street in Pompeii.

- Visitors make their way into a true to life house.

- From the pictures of the remains of a villa, the computer created the dimensions, the materials, the sequences.

- A hole?

- A hole in the middle of the roof.

- Gutters that help getting the water that falls in a pond,

- and the water of the pond is taken to a tank.

- The ticket to the exhibition cost 85 Francs for adults, 75 for children.

- Future will tell is the tourists will be numerous or not to want to pay that price for a lighted visit of one of the major works of worldwide heritage.