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Antiqua Immersa: Roma, a walk-through history exhibition at Palau Martorell in Barcelona, sells its virtual reality exhibit only as an upgrade. The exhibition ticket is listed from €17.90 and the combined ticket with VR from €23.90.
Antiqua Immersa: Roma opens on 30 October. In a LinkedIn post on 21 October, Georgi Georgiev said his team had worked on Antiqua Immersa for a year and a half.
The show follows two other XR openings in Barcelona this autumn. Grup Mediapro opened Espai Imagina with a €3 million Gaudí exhibition that mixes projection with virtual, augmented and mixed reality. Sandbox VR opened its first Spanish venue at Les Glòries on 1 October.
The exhibition ticket covers the physical route, built around conversations with three figures from Caesar’s life: Julius Caesar, Cleopatra and Vercingetorix, the Gallic leader Caesar besieged at Alesia. Visitors choose their own questions, such as why Caesar crossed the Rubicon.
Between the conversations, display cases hold genuine ancient artefacts and replicas, from coins to weapons and armour. The route also passes a model of Rome in the second century AD and scent stations with aromas from Roman cooking and Egyptian rituals. A separate immersive room tells Cleopatra’s stories of Alexandria with imagery, sound and narration. The exhibition is usually open from 10:00 to 20:00.
The VR piece is called Julius Caesar: Triumph & Destiny. Visitors wear a headset while seated in a motion chair. The first-person journey runs through Alesia, the Rubicon, Rome and Alexandria.
The motion chairs bring an access condition: visitors who need help transferring into one must bring someone to help them. Antiqua Immersa recommends the visit for ages 8 and up, with no mandatory minimum, and warns of mild violence.
Georgiev said Roma is the first of a planned series.
“Our vision is to build a series of immersive exhibitions that combine physical spaces and virtual experiences,” he wrote.
Antiqua Immersa prices the physical route as the base product. Every visitor buys the exhibition ticket for the artefacts, the characters and the scent stations, and the motion-chair VR is sold on top of it.
What is Antiqua Immersa: Roma? A walk-through history exhibition at Palau Martorell, Carrer Ample 11, Barcelona. Visitors talk to Caesar, Cleopatra and Vercingetorix, see artefacts and replicas, and can add the seated VR piece.
How much does the Barcelona virtual reality exhibit cost? The exhibition ticket is listed from €17.90. The combined ticket with the VR piece, Julius Caesar: Triumph & Destiny, is listed from €23.90.
Can you buy a ticket for the VR experience alone? No. Antiqua Immersa sells two tickets: the exhibition, and the exhibition with virtual reality.
Is the VR history exhibition suitable for children? Antiqua Immersa recommends it for ages 8 and up, with no mandatory minimum age. The content includes mild violence, with no gore or swearing.
