• The Virtual Reality Weekend at the British Museum, London takes place from 8 to 9 August.
• British Museum uses virtual reality to transport visitors to the bronze age
• Visitors to the British Museum are invited to walk into a 4,000-year-old roundhouse this weekend, where the fire is lit, the floor swept and some enigmatic objects lie waiting to be discovered.
• Virtual reality experience takes visitors back in time using real objects and state of the art 3D gadgets
• “The technology is particularly useful for the bronze age, a difficult period for visitors to engage with and imagine museum objects in their original context,” Wilkin said.

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