The year is 2100 and for the new century we are introducing our latest and greatest in space aeronautics museum. We are featuring the exhibits on ancient earth culture from the Pre-History to the Renaissance era. There are four rooms showcasing ancient humanities. Our archeologist have painstakingly excavated the uninhabitable earth and brought back pieces of <strong>real</strong> Relics left on earth in an effort to preserve Circa Earth civilization.  Don’t go visiting other museums with holograms and miniatures of the real thing come see them at the Reliquem!<!--more-->

Our spacecraft is an acre long of exhibitable space, with storage space on the on Earth’s moon to preserve and keep our findings in pristine shape. Our exhibits change monthly, except a select few.  The spacecraft has five main exhibits on different floors of the ship. In our main room which is open to the three above levels of exhibits is our lovely Sainte Chapelle. No don’t worry it’s not the entire Sainte Chapelle that collapsed in 2012. However we did find and preserve the beautiful original stained glass windows. These windows were removed and tucked away in an earth underground storage unit, before the collapse of the Sainte Chapelle disaster which killed twenty people and injured many more.  In 2012 French terrorist in a second revolt against their government destroyed The Sainte Chapelle by blowing up the Holy chapel.   We obtained the data that Nova’s team of scientific researchers took of the measurements of the chapel and many other cathedrals in a Circa Earth’s effort to check the stability of the buildings. In the research of obtaining measurements, Earth researchers used an ancient technique of collecting measurement data through laser scanning to measure and record every inch of the cathedrals. This technique used <strong>one</strong> laser that scanned and took many hours to scan and collect data which created a simple 3D image out of dots recorded to recreate the building digitally. (Tiffany) Today we have taken this data and recreated it into a 3D interactive Hologram. Our 3D artist have taken the measurements and recreated every inch of the chapel in our Hologram. The doors have been recreated out of real stone and wood some of the original angels where found in the site and where repainted to look like they did in 2011. On each floor balcony you can see all 4 angles of the chapel, gargoyles and all. The hologram rotates every five minutes to the original 3D data that was collected to the 3D model our artist have recreated.

We want our generation and future generations to come to understand and see its beauty like people could see it before the tragic events of 2012. That is why we have displayed the stained glass windows towards the rotation of the sun so children and adults can be awestruck by the magnificent glass. We even have an exhibit on the main floor where our guests can create their own stained glass ornaments. We have recreated an interactive exhibit with real glass blowing master that uses the same ancient techniques of glass blowing that they did in the 1248 which was when the Chapel was built. You can take home your own piece of glass blowing art for just ten dollars. We also want our guests to understand the significance of the chapel and brief our visitors on the history. We want our guests to understand that many chapels and cathedrals where erected at the time to show a spiritual campaign between rulers all along France. We also want our guests to know that Sainte chapel was a created by King Louis IX to prove to his people that he was the holiest of kings. We tell our visitors of how St. Louis stored his holy relics such as the crown of thorns in the chapel. We also describe to our guests the differences in holy relics are and let them draw a conclusion on whether or not King Louis was on a campaign to prove to his people that he was the holiest of kings or if he really just was a devoted Roman Catholic. We let our visitors understand that the major innovation of that time was the new form of architecture to create these giant arches and open spaces. We show them how these arches work through demonstrations that are also interactive. Visitors get to create their own arches out of lightweight “stones.”This exhibit is showcased year round.

The second floor futures the two artists Leonardo Da Vinci and Tintoretto, Bill Gates who was the richest man in early twenty-first century collected all of Da Vinci‘s works which were passed down through the Gates family and donated to our museum. Guest can enjoy seeing the different techniques these Renaissance masters used. We brief our guests on the innovative techniques artist used at the time. We explain that artists of the Renaissance had discovered one point perspective, depth, shadowing, contrast, and proportions. Prior to the Renaissance these techniques where not mastered.  Displayed are Tintoretto’s “Last Supper” and Leonardo’s “Last supper” side by side. Visitors can look at the displayed pieces and compare the masters. All of these pieces on this floor are preserved in airtight containers with barricades to prevent any further destruction to the delicate pieces. Each page of Da Vinci’s notebooks is displayed in their very own two sided case where visitors can look at each side of the pages. Every vistor is given a small mirror so they can reflect the pages and read Da Vinci’s works. Tintoretto’s pieces are also displayed and it brief lectures are given on the history of the master’s themselves through tour guide or through plaques. Future generations should know that if these artists didn’t master these techniques and teaching them and if it were not for the Renaissance many of the techniques we use in art today might not exist. We own all of modern art to the Renaissance artists.

The third floor showcases ancient Rome. A replica of the roman amphitheater that has been sized down to fit on the floor can be enjoyed by visitors. This month we are featuring poetry by Catullus, which is recited live just like it would be in ancient Rome. This poet is zesty and full of angst he’s work was very innovative of his time because it’s not all classic love poems. Some of his truly original poems are sarcastic and even silly such as “Stop Stealing the Napkins!: to Asinius Marrucinus” where he writes a poem slandering Asinius Marrucinus for stealing his napkin at a dinner party. His poems are fun and really let the guests walk back in time into Catullus’s shoes. Much of modern poetry derives from Catullus whimsical approach.  Between EAQ2 (Earth Area Quadrant 2 times) 4:00PM to 5:00PM is open mic time. Where visitors can create poetry and recite them in the amphitheater. Also don’t forget to check out Catullus’s original works showcased on this floor, and pick up a quick lesson on Latin. Each week focuses on a select section of Catullus’s works, and don’t forget to visit next month where we exhibit Sappho’s poems in the Roman amphitheater. This week we are teaching visitors how to use Hendecasyllabic meter and Elegiac couplets in their peoty. Come sharpen up your poetry skills at our learning center on the third floor and don’t forget to pick up a new language also being taught at the learning center. This floor is dedicated to Rome and interchanges different Roman poetry every month. Our guests get to interact and understand part of the origins of modern poetry and techniques.

On the Fourth floor we are showcasing ancient culture and their religion. This month starts our brand new exhibit, freshly excavated from the North American region along the Appalachians Mountains, Cherokee totem poles. The Cherokee people are an extinct civilization that died off with the rest of the Native American race. They were a proud culture that told ancient creation stories and other myths through totem poles and through word of mouth. Unfortunately we don’t know much about Native American culture of customs, but we did find through ancient website databases some of their creation myths and legends. Websites were a late twentieth century technology that people used to communicate information electronically over the internet. We want to preserve the Cherokee civilianization through their stories and artifacts. We have many headdresses and costumes that these people use to wear. Kids and parents can sit and listen to stories on how the Indians believed how the earth was formed. The can find out why the Cherokee people didn’t eat crawfish. Through our story telling held in real native American tepees. Limit ten people at a time. Pet a real extinct buffalo in our exhibit.  That’s right we have genetically recreated a buffalo and used selective gene splicing to make it friendly for our visitors and their children. Get to rid a buffalo at the Reliquem! Also get to see the buffalo rug blanket the genetic material was spliced from. It was actually used by the real Cherokee people to keep them warm from the elements during earth winters. Also kids learn a real Cherokee Dance at our learning center. Cherokee Dances were custom to try and bring rain to arid land, these were called “rain dances”. The importance of this exhibit is to reawaken this lost civilization to the general public. The Cherokee civilization died out in the early twentieth century lets reawaken it in 2100!

Come visit us in Earth Quadrant 2 all our exhibits are all ages appropriate (some viewer discretion advised during Catullus’s love poem week).

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Works Cited

Tiffany, Scott. "Building the Great Cathedrals." <em>Nova</em>. Nova, 19 Oct. 2010. Web. 9 Mar. 2011. &lt;http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/building-gothic-cathedrals.html&gt;.