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Inside the Pantheon in the walk: the rotunda under its coffered dome, Julius Caesar seated in the middle of the marble floor, and the emperors’ steles round the walls.

Great people · The Agora of Ages

Walk among the great

Twelve of the world’s great buildings, rebuilt in 3D, and 159 people who shaped history standing inside them. Step in, look up, and read their plaques.

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Inside the Agora

Great halls of history, open to walk

Go where you like, at your own pace: through the doors, under the domes, up to every figure.

The Capitol Rotunda in the walk: Washington in the middle of the floor under the dome, Lincoln seated and Jackson on horseback under the great paintings round the walls.
The Sistine Chapel in the walk: the painted ceiling and the Last Judgment at the far end, the marble screen across the patterned floor, and the plaques of Brunelleschi and Dürer before it.
Napoleon on horseback over his tomb in the Dôme des Invalides, under a gilded canopy, his plaque giving his name, his dates, Austerlitz and the Napoleonic Code.
Looking straight up into the Pantheon’s coffered dome, the sky blue in its oculus.
The Capitol from the plaza in the walk, its white dome against a summer sky, trees along the avenue.

  1. 159 people who shaped history, from Caesar and Confucius to Lincoln and Marie Curie, each in a hall built for their kind.

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12 halls · 159 people

Great buildings, rebuilt to walk in

Each hall is a real landmark, chosen for the people who stand in it: presidents under the Capitol’s dome, painters in the Sistine Chapel, Vietnam’s commanders in the Temple of Literature.

  • Wing of Antiquity, north of the plaza
  • Wing of Statecraft & Arms, east of the plaza
  • Wing of the Arts, south of the plaza
  • Wing of Knowledge & Discovery, west of the plaza

Why walk it

A museum of history, open in a browser tab

  • Walk it your way

    W A S D or the arrows on a keyboard, a swipe on a trackpad, a pad on a phone. Run, jump, or rise above the campus to see it whole.

  • 159 figures, each with a plaque

    Stand before anyone to read their plaque, open their card, and go on to their page and their story.

  • Rebuilt from photographs and scans

    Statues from museums’ scans; walls, floors and ceilings from photographs of the real buildings. See who made what.

  • Free, in your browser

    Nothing to install and no account to make. It runs on a computer, a tablet or a phone.

Everyone

Find anyone in the Agora

Search by name, other names, role or hall, or narrow the list to a wing.

Wing
Order

All 159 people

  1. 1.1George Washington1732 – 17991st president; commander of the Continental ArmyAmerican Presidents
  2. 1.2James Madison1751 – 18364th president; father of the Constitution and the Bill of RightsAmerican Presidents
  3. 1.3Andrew Jackson1767 – 18457th president; general at New Orleans; Indian Removal ActAmerican Presidents
  4. 1.4Abraham Lincoln1809 – 186516th president; preserved the Union, abolished slaveryAmerican Presidents
  5. 1.5James A. Garfield1831 – 188120th president; shot four months into his termAmerican Presidents
  6. 1.6Benjamin Harrison1833 – 190123rd president; Sherman Antitrust ActAmerican Presidents
  7. 1.7Franklin D. Roosevelt1882 – 194532nd president; New Deal, Second World WarAmerican Presidents
  8. 1.8Dwight D. Eisenhower1890 – 196934th president; Supreme Allied Commander in EuropeAmerican Presidents
  9. 1.9John F. Kennedy1917 – 196335th president; Apollo programme, Cuban Missile CrisisAmerican Presidents
  10. 1.10Ronald Reagan1911 – 200440th president; end of the Cold WarAmerican Presidents
  11. 2.1Julius Caesar100 – 44 BCEDictator; conqueror of Gaul; ended the RepublicRoman Empire
  12. 2.2Augustus63 BCE – 14 CEFirst emperor (r. 27 BCE–14 CE)Roman Empire
  13. 2.3Claudius10 BCE – 54 CEEmperor 41–54; conquest of BritainRoman Empire
  14. 2.4Vespasian9 – 79 CEEmperor 69–79; founder of the Flavian dynasty, began the ColosseumRoman Empire
  15. 2.5Trajan53 – 117 CEEmperor 98–117; empire at its greatest extentRoman Empire
  16. 2.6Hadrian76 – 138 CEEmperor 117–138; rebuilt the Pantheon, built Hadrian's WallRoman Empire
  17. 2.7Marcus Aurelius121 – 180 CEEmperor 161–180; Stoic philosopher, 'Meditations'Roman Empire
  18. 2.8Diocletianc. 244 – 311 CEEmperor 284–305; the TetrarchyRoman Empire
  19. 2.9Constantine the Greatc. 272 – 337 CEEmperor 306–337; Constantinople, Edict of MilanRoman Empire
  20. 2.10Justinian Ic. 482 – 565 CEEastern emperor 527–565; Corpus Juris Civilis, Hagia SophiaRoman Empire
  21. 3.1Socratesc. 470 – 399 BCEAthenian philosopher; the Socratic methodGreek Philosophers
  22. 3.2Platoc. 428 – 348 BCEFounder of the Academy; theory of FormsGreek Philosophers
  23. 3.3Aristotle384 – 322 BCEFounder of the Lyceum; logic, biology, ethicsGreek Philosophers
  24. 3.4Thales of Miletusc. 624 – 546 BCEFirst of the Seven Sages; natural philosophyGreek Philosophers

The plan

Four avenues round one plaza

Each avenue is a wing, with its halls along it and their doors facing it. In metres, north up.

The plan of the Agora of Ages: a round plaza with an obelisk, four avenues and the twelve halls along them

Two halls close their avenues: Vietnam’s commanders at the end of the east wing, the writers and poets at the end of the south.

The doors are open

Start on the plaza, in any hall, or face to face with someone you have always wanted to meet.

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