Forty students from all levels of Latin will be visiting the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art  Sept. 22. They will be viewing the “Luxury: Treasures of the Roman Empire” exhibit, which features gold and silver objects from the Romans.

The objects were discovered in a farm field in France and kept by a local monastery.

“It is a smaller exhibit but the objects are really, really high quality,” Latin teacher Lee Dixon said.

The exhibit is on loan from the J. Paul Getty Museum, where the collection was curated for the monastery.

“You normally couldn’t couldn’t see these objects in the United States,” Dixon said.

Dixon thinks it is important for his students to see the exhibit to gain a better connection with the past.

“My goal with Latin is to connect you to the past, I can always visualize the people who used these objects,” Dixon said.

The exhibit will be on display at the Nelson-Atkins Museum until Oct. 2, 2016.