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Museum
Rome is considered the greatest open-air in the world; it is the only place where it is possible to see
the traces of its long history in every corner while simply walkingaround the city.
The city makes feel a variety of emotions because of its unique atmosphere.
Invaluable treausures stored in the city's numerous museums, richly
andowed galleries,grand historic palces,exhibition centers and superb
archeological areas,are among the reasonswhy Rome shines like a breath-taking
star in the celestial vault of the cities of art.
During the last years a great deal of work has been done to enhance this immens wealth.
New and appropriate room for exhibitions has been created,and visiting time extended.
This allow you to have access to places that had been close -down for years.
A great deal more is still being done in order to unearth precious remains, buried or hidden
under the stratification of history.
Rome has by far not yet ceased to amaze and the future undoubtedly has great surprises
in store.
Special terms for admission into museums and art sites
Free admission for European Union citizens under 18 and over 65 years old.
50% reduction of the ticket price for European Union youths between 18 and
25 years old.These special rates are also granted to foreign visitors from
countries with which reciprocity conventions exist.
50% reduction for teachers with permanent jobs in State schools.
Free admission for school groups presenting a letter from their school stating
the number of participants and names of the leader groups.
Free admission for guides and tourist interpreters on guided visits. Museums cards
National roman museum card 7.00
Valid for three days, includes the entrance to Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Bath of
Diocletian, Cripta Balbi.
Roma archeologia card 20.00
Valid for seven days, includes the entrence to Colosseum, Palatine,
Bath of Caracalla, Palazzo Altemps, Palazzo Massimo, Bath of Diocletian,
Cripta Balbi, Tomb of cecilia Metella and Villa of the Quintili.
Museum Card can be purchased at each above mentioned site (except Villa
of Quintili and the Tomb of Cecilia Metella ), and Apt Visitor Center of via Parigi n.5
Roma pass 18
The pass allow the holders to:free admission to the first two museums and/or
archaeological sites visited,full access to the public transport system,reduced
tickets and discounts for any other following museums and sites visited,as well
as exhibitions,music events,theatrical and dance performances and all other
tourist services.
Roma Pass is valid three days from the validation date.
Museum List
Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel |  |
Viale Vaticano, 100 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.vatican.va |
The most important exhibition of the best masetrpieces of greatest artists, which were
collectedor commissioned by Popes down through the centuries.
Remember that in the Vatican Museums is possible to visit the famous Sistine Chapel,
one of the most popular and well-known monument in the world.
Besides you can admire the Aphrodite of Cnido, Sauroctone Apollo, Laocoonte,
Belvedere Torso.Particularly interesting are : Galleria degli Arazzi, Museo Sacro,
Raphael's Logge.
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Opening times: from January 7th to March 6th and from November
2nd to December 24th 8.45am-1.45pm (last entrance 12.45pm), from March 8th to
October 29th and from December 27thto January 6th 8.45am-4.45pm (last entrance 3.20pm). |
Free entrance for the last sunday of the month.
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Admissions ? 12,00 |
Reduced ? 8,00 |
How to get there? Metro A line to Ottaviano or Cipro
Bus 492 or tram 19 to Piazza Risorgimento
Bus 64 or 40 express from Termini to Piazza Pia. |
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National Roman Museum & Diocletian's Baths |  |
Viale E. De Nicola, 78 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.archeorm.arti.beniculturali.it |
Split up into five sites,the museum is one of the most important archaelogical collections in
the world.
This museum includes different popular works such as Venus di Cirene,Torso Valentini,Torso
Ludovisi.The famous Ludovisi collection is on show in the small retreat.
Baths of Diocletian
It was built by order of the imperors Massimiano and Diocleziano.Examples of roman sculpture
and architecture may also be admired around the cloister designed by Michelangelo for the
Certosa.It houses the epigraphic and proto-historic department. |
Opening times: Tue-Sun from 9am-7.45pm |
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Admission ? 5,00 (or museum card) |
Reduced ? 2,00 |
How to get there? Bus 64,40express or Metro A to Repubblica |
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Palazzo Massimo alle Terme |  |
Roma (Roma)
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| www.archeorm.arti.beniculturali.it |
This building is one of the best treasure in Rome, completely restored, contains important
statues, splendid mosaics coming from Roman villas.
It can't be missed the so called
Generale di Tivoli, Augusto as Pontefice Massimo da via Labicana, the Fanciulla di Anzio,
the Efebo da Subiaco, the Afrodite da Villa Adriana are among the most significant works of art. |
Opening times: Tue-sun from 9am-7.45pm |
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Admission ? 6,00 (or museum card) |
Reduced ? 3,00 |
How to get there? Remember that is located near TERMINI ST. |
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Octagonal Hall |  |
Via G. Romita, 8 Roma (Roma) |
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Is an integral part of the Baths of Diocletian. It contains impotant sculptures coming from Roman
Baths.It currently houses a series of sculptures in bronze and marble, these are evidence of the
works that adorned the great Roman baths, from the II to the IV century A.D. |
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Free entrance Tue-Sun from 9am-2pm, hollidays from 9am-1pm. |
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How to get there? Metro A to Repubblica. |
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Palazzo Altemps |  |
Piazza Sant'Apollinare, 46 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.archeorm.arti.beniculturali.it |
This XVth century palace contains masterpieces from Magna Grecia, such as famous Trono
Ludovisi.
The collection includes Hellenistic works as well, such as Ares or the group with
Galata suicida (Galata's suicide).
Works relating to the Mattei collection, which were assembled
by the family in order to decorate Villa Celimontana, and which were previously housed in the
Museum of the Baths of Diocletian are exhibited in the portico of the courtyard of the first floor. |
Opening times Tue-Sun from 9am-7.45pm |
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Admission ? 5,00 (or museum card) |
Reduced ? 2,50 |
How to get there? Bus 30 express or 492,70,81,87. |
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Crypta Balbi |  |
Via delle Botteghe Oscure, 31 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.archeorm.arti.beniculturali.it |
This section of the Museo Nazionale Romano illustrates the story of acity block close to the
Campus Martius.There, Lucius Cornelius Balbus built a theatre with an annexed portico to a
Crypta.The museum stands directly above the excavation site.The archaelogical area around
the Balbi Crypta allows as to follow a millenary stratigraphy. |
Opening Times Tue-Sun from 9am-7.45pm |
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Admission 4,00 (or museum card) |
reduced ? 2,00 |
How to get there? Bus 40 express, 62, 64, 70, 87, 571 to Largo Argentina or Piazza Venezia. |
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Villa Giulia National Etruscan Museum |  |
Piazzale di Villa Giulia, 9 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.beniculturali.it |
Housed in the splendid villa of Pope Julius III, the museum holds pre-Roman
antiquities from the Etruscan and Faliscan civilizations. aqueduct(Augustan age), and the 'neviera'
of Pope Julius III.
The Museum offers numerous itineraries that make it possible to also admire the underground
rooms of the Villa like the nymphaeum, the remainsof the Vergine. |
Opening Times Tue-Sun from 8.30am-19.30closed on January 1st and Decembre 25th |
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Admission ? 4,00 (or museum card) |
reduced ? 2,00 |
How to get there? Tram 30 or 225 from metro A Flaminio. |
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National Museum Of Eastern Art |  |
Via Merulana, 248 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.arti.beniculturali.it |
The most important of Eastern art, consisting of finds coming from the excavations
of the archaelogical misions of the Italian Institute for the Middle and Far East.
Ancient Near and Middle East, Islam, India, Gandhara, Tibet ans Nepal, Southeastern
Asia and Far East and the items collected include ceramics and porcelain, metals,
sculptures in different materials, glass, paintings,fabrics, weapons, votive and ritual
objects, furnishings, jewels, furniture and books. |
Opening Times Every day from 8.30am-14 and holiday 8.30am-19.30, closed 1st and 3rd Monday of each month |
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Admission ? 4,00 (or museum card) |
reduced ? 2,00 |
How to get there? Metro A to Vittorio Emanuele or Bus 714 to Via Merulana. |
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L. Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Etnography |  |
Piazza Marconi, 14 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.pigorini.arti.beniculturali.it |
It was founded by the paleothnologist Luigi Pigorini, his aim was that of illustrating Italian
prehistiric evidence and that of the present-day people in orderto compare the different
phases of the development of the cultures.The evolutionary of this place is completed by
a multimedia and digital support that accompanies visitors along a route of model settings
that faithfully reproduce different excavation conditions.
As for the material displayed for the paleolitic period there are finds that were discovered
in various areas in Latium and this allows visitors to go back over the fundamental stages
of the development of the human species |
Opening Times Every day from 9am to 8pm |
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Admission ? 4,00 (or museum card) |
reduced ? 2,00 |
How to get there? Metro B to EUR-FERMI or Bus 714 to Viale Marconi. |
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National Museumof the Early Middle Age |  |
Viale lincoln, 3 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.archeorm.arti.beniculturali.it |
The Museum was inaugurated in 1967, it houses item which aim at illustrating the post classical
age,through finds mostly from Roman enviroments and central Italy.
The great floor mosaic from Santa Rufina is particularly interesting.
Is realy worth to see thecollection of fabrics and reliefs produced in Egypt from the late
Roman age to the Islamic period. |
Opening Times Every day from 9am to 8 pm.Closed on mondays |
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Admission ? 2,00 (or museum card) |
reduced ? 1,00 |
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National Museum of Castel san'Angelo |  |
Lungotever Castello, 50 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.beniculturali.it |
It has been the seat of the Museo Nazionale since 1925.It was bilt by the emperor Hadrian
as a mausoleo and then became a fortress for that reason there are arms, equipment and uniforms
dating from between the XV and XIX centuries. |
Opening Times Every day from 9am to 8pm.Closed on Monday |
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Admission ? 6,50 (or museum card) |
reduced ? 2,50 |
How to get there? Bus 40 Express or 64 to Castel Sant'Angelo |
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National Museum of Palazzo Venezia |  |
Via del Plebiscito, 118 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.archeorm.arti.beniculturali.it |
The building was once the seat of the embassy of the Republic of Venice (1564-1797), then of
France (from 1797).
It has been the home of the National Museum since 1916.Subsequent to an initial partial
opening in 1921, which was supervised by Federico Hermanin, and until the end of the
Second World War, the Museum was forced to coexist with the occupation of the Fascist
government.There are several particular collections in the museum. |
Opening TimesEvery day from 8.30am to 7pm.Closed on Monday |
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Admission ? 4,00 (or museum card) |
reduced ? 2,00 |
How to get there? Bus 64 from Termini. |
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Borghese Museum and Gallery |  |
Piazzale del Museo Borghese Roma (Roma) |
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| www.galleriaborghese .it |
Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V had his residence in this palace which
was redecorated refurnished in the 18th century.it houses the Borghese family's collection,
sculptures of the classical age .It includes carvings by Pietro and Gian Lorenzo Bernini
(father and son) and by Antonio Canova (the famous Venus of Pauline Bonaparte) and works
by Raphael, Caravaggio, Peri del Vaga, Antonello da Messina, Guido Reni. |
Opening Times Every day from 9am to 7pm closed on Monday |
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Admission ? 8,50 (or museum card) |
reduced ? 5,25 |
How to get there? Bus 116 or 910 to Via Pinciana. |
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NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART |  |
Viale delle Belli Arti, 131 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.gnam.arti.beniculturali.it |
It hosts one of the major collection of paintings, sculptures and graphics,
especially by italian artists of the 19th-20th century.You can discover the
rich library and specialized archive.There are donations from Balla, Guttuso,
De Chirico and Schwarz; examples of futurism and abstractionism from the
twenties,of recent acquisition, are placed along with Italian works by artists
including Carr?,Sironi,Morandi and sculptors such as Martini, Marini and
Andreotti. |
Opening Times Every day from 8.30am to 7.30pm closed on Monday |
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Admission ? 6,50 (or museum card) |
reduced? 3,25 |
How to get there? Tram 3 or 19 |
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Corsini Gallery |  |
della Lungara, 10 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.galleriaborghese.it/corsini/it/default.htm |
It is the only example of an eighteenth-century Roman picture gallery
which to this day has survived completely intact.
A small but valuable collection of small bronzes mostly dated between
the end of XVIII century is displayed on the consolles of various rooms,
starting from the great entrance hall to the cardinal's apartment called
sala del trono and once used as a hall for feasts.
Some of the masterpieces in the gallery include paintings by Beato Angelico
and Andrea del Sarto, Rubens, Caravaggio( S. Giovanni Battista), Van Dyck
and some of the most famous item on display are the Coppia Corsini, a silver
going back to the I century B.C. |
Opening Times Every day from 8.30am to 7.30pm, closed on Monday. |
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Admission ? 4,00 (or museum card) |
reduced ? 2,00 |
How to get there? 271 or 280 to Lungotevere della Farnesina |
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National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini |  |
Via Barberini, 18 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.galleriaborghese.it/barberini |
It was conceived as the self -celebration of the rise of a papal family.
The huge complex of Palazzo Barberini was established by the Florentine
Pope Urban the VIII.
The famous painting by Raffaello called 'Fornarina' deserves special
mention besides the works by Andrea del Sarto,Beccafumi, Sodoma,
Bronzino, Lotto, tintoretto, Tiziano and El Greco.
While Caravaggio's Judith cutting off the head of Oloferne opens the
superb itinerary of the Seventeenth century art which icludes paintings by
Reni, Domenichino, Guercino, Lanfranco, Bernini, Poussin, Pietro da Cortona,
Gaulli and Maratta. |
Opening Times Every day from 9am to 7pm; closed on Monday |
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Admission ? 5,00 (or museum card) |
reduced ? 2,50 |
How to get there? Metro A to Barberini or bus 492 |
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Spada Gallery |  |
Piazza Capodiferro, 13 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.galleriaborghese.it/spada/it/default.htm |
Palazzo Spada which has been the seat of the Council of the State and the gallery
by the same name since 1927.The gallery was restored to the state in 1951 after
patient recuperation work of the material lost during the Second World War was
carried out.
One of the most important works is the sketch created by Baciccia for the fresco
in the dome of the church of Jesus. |
Opening Times Every day from 8.30am to 7.30pm, closed on Monday. |
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Admission ? 5,00 |
reduced ? 2,50 |
How to get there? Bus 64, 492 or 62 to Largo Torre Argentina, or bus 23, 271 or 280
to Ponte Sisto. |
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Gallery Of The National Academy Of San Luca |  |
Piazza dell'Accademia di S. Luca, 77 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.accademiasanluca.it |
This small Gallery keep masterpieces like Perseo and Andromeda and la Cattura
di Cristoby Cavalier D'arpino, Ritratto di Ippolito Riminaldi by Tiziano, Vergine con Ali
by Van Dyck, Putto Reggifestone by Raffaello and Veduta Prostettica by Canaletto. |
Opening Times Every day from 8.30am-14 and holiday 8.30am-19.30, closed 1st and 3rd Monday of each month |
Free entrance from Mondays to Saturdays from 10am to 12.30pm, closed on Sunday |
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How to get there? Bus 62 or 492 to Via del Tritone or Via del Corso. |
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Colonna Gallery |  |
Via della Pilotta, 17 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.galleriacolonna.it |
The Gallery was founded by Cardinal Girolamo I Colonna.The collection of art works
gathered in the gallery initiated in the Seventeenth and later increased by Lorenzo
Onofrio Colonna consists of sculptures from the Roman age and several paintings
ranging from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth century.
Some painting sin the gallery deserve special mention,such as:The eater of beans
by Annibale Carracci, the Portrait of the Cardinal Pompeo Colonna by Agostino Carracci,
a Portrait of Onofrio Panvinio by Tiziano, Cain and Abel by Pier Francesco Mola,
the annunciation with the Archangel Gabriel by Guercino. |
Opening Times Every Saturday from 9am to 1pm, closed in August. |
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Admission ? 7,00 (or museum card) |
reduced ? 5,50 |
How to get there? Bus 492 or 62 to Largo Chigi or Bus 40 Express or 64 to Piazza Venezia,
then a few walk to Via del Corso. |
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Doria Pamphilj Gallery |  |
Piazza del Collegio Romano, 2 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.doriapamphilj.it |
The Galleria Doria-Pamphilj is one of the most important and magnificent private art collections
in the existence in Rome.The collection was started by Camillo Pamphili in 1644.
In this gallery you can admire works by Tiziano, Raffaello and Lotto, can an example the
famous landscape lunettes by Annibale Carracci. |
Opening Times Every day from 10am to 5pm, closed on Thursday. |
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Admission ? 8,00 (or museum card), the ticket include audio guide. |
Reduced ? 5,70 |
How to get there? Bus 40 Express or 64 to Piazza Venezia or 492 or 62 to Via del
Corso.
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Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum |  |
Via Boncompagni, 18 Roma (Roma) |
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The Museum housed the first italian collection dedicated to the decorative arts since 1995.Objects of art
and of architectural ornamentation, fashion, costume and design from the end of the XVIII
century until today are displayed in rotation in the thematic exhibitions in the same manner
of the Cooper herwitt Museum in New York. |
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Free entrance from 9am to 7.30pm,closed on Monday. |
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How to get there? Metro A to Barberini then short walk or bus 492 or 62. |
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Historic Museum Of Garibaldi |  |
Largo di Porta S. Pancrazio, 9 Roma (Roma) |
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The Museum houses two collections that go back to the historical itinerary, that goes
from the Rinaissance to the Resistance, and is a symbol of the continuity and modernity
of the Garibaldian tradition.
The Museum is dedicated to the final Garibaldian heroic deeds, trough the commemoration
of the glorious deeds of Italian solders from the 'Venezia' and 'Taurinance' divisions. |
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How to get there? 115 from Trastevere or bus 870 from Piazza fiorentini |
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Museum Of Italian Risorgimento |  |
Via di San Pietro in Carcere Roma (Roma) |
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| www.risorgimento.it/ |
The Museum comprises, in addition to plenty of documentary material, numerous paintings,
statues, engravings, and various relics illustrating the history of the transformation of the
Italian society starting from the reforms of the eighteenth century and the Jacobin republics
to theformation and growth of the Italian nation, concluding with the events of the first
World War. |
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Free entrance every day from 9am to 6.30pm, closed on Monday. |
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How to get there? Bus 40 Express or 64 to Piazza Venezia. |
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Historic Museum Of The Liberation Of Rome |  |
Via Tasso, 145 Roma (Roma) |
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The rich graphical and photographic documentation goes back over the main historical
events that occurred in Rome between the fall of Fascism and the armistice, illustrating
then the defense of Rome between 8 and 11 September 1943 and the formation on an
impulse of colonel Giuseppe Montezemolo of the Underground Military Front; the
memories of the protagonists of that time of fighting come back to life not only through
images of the time but can also be touched by hand in this unique museum of
'history lived'. |
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Free entrance Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4pm to 7pm. Saturdays and Sundays from
9.30am to 12.30pm, closed on Mondays and Wednesdays. |
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How to get there? Metro A to Manzoni or bus 714 to via Merulana then short walk |
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Keats Shelley Memorial House |  |
Piazza di Spagna, 26 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.keats-shelley-house.org |
The English Romantic poet John Keats who was seroiusly ill with tuberculosis at the
beginning of the nineteenth century, sought shelter in Rome in the hope that the local
healthy climate could perform a miracle and save his young life.
Some of the particular items on display include a cast of Keats face and a lock of his
hair ,as well as Oscar Wilde's autograph. |
Opening Times Every day from 9am to 1pm and from 3pm to 6pm, Saturday from from 11am to 2pm -from
3pm to 6pm, closed on Sunday. |
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Admission ? 3,00 |
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How to get there? Metro A to Spagna |
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H. C. Anderson Museum |  |
Via Pasquale Stanislao Mancini, 20 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.gnam.arti.beniculturali.it/andeco.htm |
Heindrik Christian Andersendecigned and built his own house-studio in the form a 'house with
an adjoining studio' between 1922 and 1925 near the porta del Popolo.
The building, which features Neo-Renaissance forms and externalfaces rich in symbolic decorative
elements of the sentimental universe of the artist or the series of portrait-heads of the artist's
relatives that overlook via Mancini and via Pisanelli, represents an interesting example of
architecture and decoration in the artistic Roman panorama of the time. |
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Free entrance every day from 9am to 7pm ,closed on Monday. |
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How to get there? Metro A to Flaminio or bus 492 to Flaminio. |
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Giorgio De Chirico Memorial House Museum |  |
Piazza di Spagna, 31 Roma (Roma) |
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The Museum which is located in the seventeenth century Borgognoni palace was opened to the
public in 1998 on the twentieth anniversary of the painter's death.Two of the paintings exhibited
in the museum, the portrait of Isa with yellow mantle and the Self-portrait in the garden deserve
special mention. |
Opening Times Every day from 10am to 1pm,closed on Monday. |
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Admission ? 5,16 |
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How to get there? Metro A to Spagna. |
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Pirandello Memorial House |  |
Via A. Bosio, 18 Roma (Roma) |
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When Luigi Pirandello died in December of 1936 in the Roman house where he spent
the final years of his life, his heirs decided to donate the Sicilian writer's small villa with
all its original furnishings and its weathly collection of rooms, paintings and personal
objects mostly found in the bedroom and in the study, which have not been changed
since then, to the Italian State. |
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Free entrance every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday from 9am to 1.30pm. |
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Goethe Memorial House |  |
Via del Corso, 18 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.casadigoethe.it |
Johann Wolfgang Goethe arrived in Rome in 1786 where he lived together with a friend
in the former's apartment until 1788.
The Museum had already been housed in a different apartment and closed to the public
for over a decade.
The memorial museum also hosts a rich programme of cultural initiatives that range from
conferences to concerts, from readings to screen projections. |
Opening Times Every day from 10am to 6pm, closed on Tuesday. |
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Admission ? 3,00 |
reduced ? 2,00 |
How to get there? Metro A to Spagna. |
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Canova-Tadolini Atelier Museum |  |
Via del Babuino, 150/a/b Roma (Roma) |
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| www.doriapamphilj.it |
The museum was recently rescued from a property venture that would have devastated
the historic premises and caused the loss of the items kept in it, the canova-Tadolini
Museum is a rare example of a restored yet undamaged sculpture atelier in a part of
Rome which is still filled with the spirit of a lost world.
The statues that inhabit this box of art treasures displayed for the enjoyment of the public. |
Opening Times Every day from 9am to 8pm, closed Sunday. |
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Admission ? 3,00 |
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How to get there? Metro A to Spagna or bus 492 to Flaminio. |
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Mario Praz's Museum |  |
Via Giuseppe Zanardelli, 1 Roma (Roma) |
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The Museum is situated in the same building of the Napoleonoc museum, here you can find
the unique collection of fans and the canopy bed from the Castle of Fontanbleau. |
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Free entrence every day from 9am to 1pm and from 2.30pm to 6.30pm,from2.30pm to 6.30pm
on Monday. |
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How to get there? Bus 30 Express to Corso Rinascimento, or 492, 70, 81, 87 to Ponte Umberto I. |
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Capitoline Museums |  |
Piazza del Campidoglio Roma (Roma) |
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| www.museicapitolini.org |
This Museum was founded by Pope Sextus IV with the donation to the Roman
people of the bronze statues of the Lateran (the She-Wolf, the Spinario, the Camillo and
the enormous head of emperor Costantine with the hand and globe of power).It is
considered to be the oldest national museum in the world.
Many works from excavation campaigns came to be part of the collection,including the
statue of Hercules in gilded bronze found in the Foro Boario, fragments of the colossal
statue of Costantine.
The Tabularium is the ancient public archive of the people of Rome which, with its great
monumental arches, overlooks the Roman Forum and here it is possible to visit the ruins
of the temple of Veio which is part of the foundation of the Palazzo senatorio.
The Capitoline Pinacoteca was newly opened to the public in 1999, now offers a completely
renewed tour in cronological order that goes from painting from the late Middle Age to those
of the eighteenth century; works like Baptism of Christ by Tiziano or the Rape of Europe by
Veronese. |
Opening Times Every day from 9am to 8pm, closed on Monday |
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Admission ? 6,20 |
Reduced ? 4,20 Booking fee ? 1,20; fro groups ? 25,00; price including
Centrale Montemartini ? 8,30
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How to get there? Bus 40 Express, 62, 70, 64, 87, 170 to Piazza Venezia or Via del Teatro Marcello. |
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Barracco Museum |  |
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 166/a Roma (Roma) |
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| www.comune.roma.it |
The collection, which belonged to Baron Giovanni Barracco,
includes Egyptian, Assyro-Babylonian, Greek and Roman,
Etruscan art which was supposed to offer, as intended by the cllector, an
exhaustive panorama of the development of the sculpture from the cultures that florished in
the Mediterranean area.
For the Roman period you can admire the fragment of mosaic from the Villa di Livia. |
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Admission ? 2,60 |
Reduced ? 1,60 |
How to get there? Bus 64 or 40 Express. |
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Museum Of Roman Civilization |  |
Piazza Giovanni Agnelli, 10 Roma (Roma) |
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59 rooms housing the Museum of Imperial Rome and the material
put on exhibition in the Mostra Augustea in 1911.
The Museum has both documentary and educational value, in that the material on display
is essentially made up of reproductions of examples of classical archaeology which have
either been lost or destroyed or of works, which have been pieced back together.
There are moulds of inscriptions and early Christian reliefs and sarcophaghi including
that in pophyry of Costantina, the daughter of emperor Costantine. |
Opening times Every day from 9am to 6.45pm, Sunday from 9am to 1pm, closed on Monday. |
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Admission ? 6,20 |
Reduced ? 3,10 |
How to get there? Metro B Eur-Fermi or bus 714 to Piazza G.Marconi |
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Museum Of The Walls |  |
Via Porta San Sebastiano, 18 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.comune.roma.it |
Locate inside Porta San Sebastiano, the museum highlights the architectural
history of Rome's fortified surrounding walls and allows access to the only
section of the wall-walk open to the public.
The Museum goes back over the history of the city walls, from the Servian walls,
to the Aurelian walls; in the museum is possible to admire a beautiful view of the
city which reaches the Castelli Romani. |
Opening Times Every day from 9am to 7pm, Sundays and holidays from 9am to 5pm. |
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Admission ? 2,60 |
Reduced ? 1,60 |
How to get there? Metro b to Circo Massimo or Piramide, then bus 118, or Metro A
to Colli Albani, the bus 660 (you'll reach Cecilia Metella and the Villa of Maxentius). |
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Museum Of Rome At Palazzo Braschi |  |
Piazza di San Pantaleo, 10 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.museodiroma.comune.roma.it |
The Museum documents, with various exhibits, the cultural, social and historical-artistic
life of Rome from the Middle Ages until the first half of the twentieth century.
The Palazzo Braschi houses the Gabinetto Comunale delle Stampe (30,000 works
including drawings, watercolours, engravings and ancient books) and the Municipal
Photographic Archive which provides an important background for the urbanand topographic
history of Rome and numerous photographs of the Roman world on the themes of view,
archaeology and portrait. |
Opening Times Every day from 9am to 7pm, closed on Monday. |
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Admission ? 6,20 |
Reduced ? 3,10 |
How to get there? Bus 30 Express, 40 Express, 64, 62, 70, 87, 492, 628. |
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Museum Of Rome In Trastevere |  |
Piazza di Sant'Egidio, 1/b Roma (Roma) |
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| www.comune.roma.it/museodiroma.trastevere/ |
TThe Museum is housed in the building that was the seat of the barefoodted
Carmelites from 1610 until after the Unity of Italy.
The Museum also has a rich collection of paintings, prints, and watercolours by Ippolito
Caffi, Vincenzo Monti, Salomon Corrodi, Adolphe Roger and Teodor Aerni. |
Opening Times Every day from 10am to 8pm, closed on Monday. |
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Admission 2,60 |
Reduced 1,60 |
How to get there? Bus 23 or 280 to Ponte Sisto. |
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Museum Of Rome In Trastevere |  |
Piazza di Sant'Egidio, 1/b Roma (Roma) |
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| www.comune.roma.it/museodiroma.trastevere/ |
The Museum is housed in the building that was the seat of the barefoodted
Carmelites from 1610 until after the Unity of Italy.
The Museum also has a rich collection of paintings, prints, and watercolours by Ippolito
Caffi, Vincenzo Monti, Salomon Corrodi, Adolphe Roger and Teodor Aerni. |
Opening Times Every day from 10am to 8pm, closed on Monday. |
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Admission 2,60 |
Reduced 1,60 |
How to get there? Bus 23 or 280 to Ponte Sisto. |
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Museum Of Rome In Trastevere |  |
Piazza di Sant'Egidio, 1/b Roma (Roma) |
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| www.comune.roma.it/museodiroma.trastevere/ |
The Museum is housed in the building that was the seat of the barefoodted
Carmelites from 1610 until after the Unity of Italy.
The Museum also has a rich collection of paintings, prints, and watercolours by Ippolito
Caffi, Vincenzo Monti, Salomon Corrodi, Adolphe Roger and Teodor Aerni. |
Opening Times Every day from 10am to 8pm, closed on Monday. |
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Admission 2,60 |
Reduced 1,60 |
How to get there? Bus 23 or 280 to Ponte Sisto. |
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Napoleonic Museum |  |
Piazza di Ponte Umberto I, 1 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.comune.roma.it/museonapoleonico |
The first nucleus of the works of the Napoleonic Museum originated from the generous
bequest of count Giuseppe Primoli (1851-1927).
The objects collected range from paintings to sculptures, from forniture to objects of every
day use, from album of memories to snuffboxes, from clothes to jewels, from books to drawings,
in an ensemble of considerable appeal, where every object proves to be interesting both us
evidence of art and a taste of the time, and as the fragment of an organised family history. |
Opening Times Every day from 9am to 7pm, closed on Monday. |
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Admission 2,60 |
Reduced 1,60 |
How to get there? Bus 30 Express to Corso Rinascimento, or bus 492, 70, 81, 87, 628 to
Ponte Umberto I. |
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Museum Of Rome In Trastevere |  |
Piazza di Sant'Egidio, 1/b Roma (Roma) |
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| www.comune.roma.it/museodiroma.trastevere/ |
The Museum is housed in the building that was the seat of the barefoodted
Carmelites from 1610 until after the Unity of Italy.
The Museum also has a rich collection of paintings, prints, and watercolours by Ippolito
Caffi, Vincenzo Monti, Salomon Corrodi, Adolphe Roger and Teodor Aerni. |
Opening Times Every day from 10am to 8pm, closed on Monday. |
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Admission 2,60 |
Reduced 1,60 |
How to get there? Bus 23 or 280 to Ponte Sisto. |
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Napoleonic Museum |  |
Piazza di Ponte Umberto I, 1 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.comune.roma.it/museonapoleonico |
The first nucleus of the works of the Napoleonic Museum originated from the generous
bequest of count Giuseppe Primoli (1851-1927).
The objects collected range from paintings to sculptures, from forniture to objects of every
day use, from album of memories to snuffboxes, from clothes to jewels, from books to drawings,
in an ensemble of considerable appeal, where every object proves to be interesting both us
evidence of art and a taste of the time, and as the fragment of an organised family history. |
Opening Times Every day from 9am to 7pm, closed on Monday. |
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Admission 2,60 |
Reduced 1,60 |
How to get there? Bus 30 Express to Corso Rinascimento, or bus 492, 70, 81, 87, 628 to
Ponte Umberto I. |
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Canonica Museum At Villa Borghese |  |
Viale Canonica, 2 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.comune.roma.it |
The Museum was established at the end of the eighteenth century during restoration work
in Villa Borghese which had been commissioned by Prince Mark Antony.
If you visit the Museum you can find included the tour dedicated to Canonica's study and
his apartment. |
Opening Times Every day from 9am to 7pm, closed on Monday. |
Free guided tours on Thursday afternoons and Saturday mornings. |
Admission 2,60 |
reduced 1,60 |
How to get there? Tram 19 or Metro A to Spagna. |
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Macro-Museum Of Contemporary Art Of Rolla |  |
Via Reggio Emilia, 54 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.macro.roma.museum |
The former production plant of Peroni beer-designed by architect Giovanni, is one of the
most interesting examples of industrial archaeology in Rome.
The structure also has a video and audio tape library with multimedia points, a specialised
library, teaching rooms, a bookshop, a canteen and it hosts national nad international
temporary exhibitions. |
Opening Times Every day from 9am to 7pm, holidays from 9am to 2pm, colsed on Monday. |
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Admission 2,60 |
Reduced 1,60 |
How to get there? Bus 492 or Metro A to Barberini. |
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Museum Of The Casina Delle Civitte |  |
Via Nomentana, 7 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.comune.roma.it |
It is situated within then park of Villa Torlonia on Via Nomentana.The building, which is
positioned on a hillock, presents an original architectonic structure rich in decorative
elements; it is decorated with Neo-Medieval and Art-Nouveau. |
Opening times Every day from 9am to 5pm,from Apr.to Sep from 9am to 7pm; closed on Monday. |
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Admission 2,60 |
Reduced 1,60 |
How to get there? Bus 60 Express or 62, 90 Express to Via Nomentana/Villa Torlonia. |
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Modern And Contemporary Art Gallery |  |
Via Francesco Crispi , 24 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.comune.roma.it |
It houses the works of the municipal collection datable from 1883 to 1945 and is based in
the former seventeenth century convent of the barefooted Carmelites connected to the
sixteenth century Church of S.Giuseppe a Capo le Case.
Some of the works on display:the great triptych on a table by Giulio Aritide Sartorio called
'Le vergine savie e le vergini stolte' datable between 1890 and 1891 and the most radiant
landscape 'Carro di fieno a Terracina' from 1923. |
Opening Times Every day from 9am to 7pm, closed on Monday. |
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Admission 2,60 |
Reduced 1,60 |
How to get there? Metro A to Spagna or bus 492 to Barberini. |
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Museum Of Teatro Argentina |  |
Largo di Torre Argentina , 166/a Roma (Roma) |
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The city of Rome bought it in 1869 from the Torlonia family, the theatre Argentina has always
been the most important theatre in Rome.
The theatre consisted of a horseshoe shaped hall for obvious reasons of visibility and acoustics,
with stalls and boxes. |
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Admission 2,60 |
Reduced 1,60 |
How to get there? Bus 64 or 40 Express. |
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Civic Zoology Museum (Within The Biopark) |  |
Via Ulisse Aldrovandi, 18 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.comune.roma.it/museozoologia |
It was founded in 1932, it has over 5 million examples of several animals species, which are part of
naturalistic collections that go back as far as period following the Napoleonic domination including
molluscs, insects, birds, mammals, added to which are important collection from the Roman
countyside with species of mammals, birds and insects that are no longer found in our region. |
Opening times Every day from 9am to 5pm, closed on Monday. |
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Admission 4,20 |
Reduced 2,60 |
How to get there? Metro A to Spagna or Flaminio |
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Mathematics Museum |  |
Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 Roma (Roma) |
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| .comune.roma.it /cultura/italiano/musei spazi espositivi/musei/museomatematica/index.htm |
The Museum of the Mathematics is the first municipal museum dedicated to the history of the
theory of the mathematics and the spread of the scientific culture.
Some instruments found in the museum are worth a special mention the 'proto rulers' as the
rods of Nepero and the compasses of proportion by Galilei; the original book containing the firts
tables of the logarithms by Nepero.
The peculiar concept and the remarkable didatic focus make the visit of this museum suitable
to school students who can follow specifically tailored itineraries. |
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Free entrance from 9am to 6pm, closed on saturday and Sunday. |
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Explora (Children's Museum) |  |
Via Flaminia, 80 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.mdbr.it |
It is the first didatic museum dedicated to children from 0 to 12 years old.
This Museum is an important example of the urban rehabilitation of a distressed area.
In each section the children can play an active role,and participate in the production of a
television program, changing a wheel in a garage, learning to use and save water. |
Opening Times Every day from 9.30am to 11.30am-3pm to 5pm, Sundays and holidays from 10am to 12pm-
3pm to 5pm; closed on Monday. |
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Admission Adult 6,00, Children 7.00, for groups 5.00 |
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How to get there? Metro A to Flaminio. |
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Franciscan's Museum |  |
Grande Raccordo Anulare Km.65,200 Roma (Roma) |
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The Museum originated from the research carried out by Franciscan father Louis Antoine da
Porrentry who, in 1880 started gathering documentation of various nature in the convent of the
Capuchins of Marseilles with the purpose ullustrating the biography of St. Frances which was
published in 1885.
Some of the works which bear greater are the paintings and drawings by Palma the Younger,
Annibale and Ludovico Carracci, Domenichino, Carlo Saraceni, Gherardo delle Notti, Paul Brill
and Giovan Battista Piazzetta. |
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Museum Of Jewidh Art |  |
Lungotevere de' Cenci, 15 Roma (Roma) |
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This Museum is a repository of the historical,cultural and artistic heritage of the Ghetto,the
force residence of Roman jewish from the mid sixteenth century until the end of the nineteenth
century.
In addition to the ritual objects and fabrics still used for liturgical purpose creating therefore
continuous change in the exhibition tour, a large section has been organised in the museum
dedicated to the tragedy of the persecutions, which began with the famous edict in 1555 with
which Paul IV, in the height of the Counter-Reformation, imposed forced residence in the area
between Ponte Quattro Capi, Portico d'Ottavia, Piazza Giudia and the Tiber, this later culminated
in the Nazi period. |
Opening Times From Oct. to Mar. every day from 9am to 4.30pm, Fridays from 9am to1.30pm, Sundays from
9am to 12.30pm.From Apr. to Sep. evrey day from 9am to 7.30 pm, Fridays and Sundays
from 9am to 1.30pm, closed on Saturdays. |
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Admission 5,16 |
Reduced 3,10 |
How to get there?Bus 23, 271, or 280 to Lungotevere de'Cenci, or bus 492, 64, 40 Express to
Largo Torre Argentina then short walk. |
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Museum Of The Souls In Purgatory |  |
Lungotevere Prati, 12 Roma (Roma) |
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This Museum was created at the end of the nineteenth century by the French missionary Victor
Jouet in a building adjacent to the sacristy of the small Neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart. |
Opening Times Free entrance every day from 7.30am to 11am and from 4pm to 7pm. |
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How to get there? Metro A to Ottaviano or tram 19 or bus 64 or 40 Express to Lungotevere. |
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Toys'S Museums |  |
Via Vincenzo Coronelli, 24/26 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.comune.roma.it/municipio/06/struttec/museogioc.htm |
The Museum of Toys is siutated in the historical neighbourhood of Pigneto-Prenestino-Labicano,
among Liberty-style villas and the ruins of Roman aqueducts, it is a unique museum called 'La
Memoria Giocosa' dedicated to games and toys from the twentieth century.
The collection,which is housed in a space of 308 square metres, includes games produced
between 1920 and 1960 emerging as a particulary representative panorama of the vast international
production of European, Asian and American toys. |
Opening Times Free entrance every day from 3pm to 7pm, closed on Monday and Tuesday.
For schools from Tuesday to Friday from 9am to 1pm. |
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Wax Museum |  |
Piazza SS. Apostoli, 67 Roma (Roma) |
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The wax Museum was opened in 1958 according to the wishes of Fernando Canini who
wanted the city of Rome a museum similar to those he has visited in London and Paris.
The Museum's collection keeps growing,at theit has about 250 wax models of historical
figures, politicians, artists, scientists, poets, musicians, men of culture and entertainment of
all times with particular considaration to the events and personalities of the twentieth century.
The collection is completed by repreductions of some famous instruments used for executions
in Europe and America and waxworks dedicated to children that illustrate the main dinosaur
species or recall the protagonists of the best loved fairy tales such as Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs and Sleeping Beauty. |
Opening times Every from 9am to 8pm. |
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Admission 6,00 |
Reduced 5,00 |
How to get there? Bus 64 or 40 Express to Piazza Venezia. |
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Museum Of Musical Instruments |  |
Piazza Santa Croce in Gerusalemme , 9 Roma (Roma) |
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The Museum was inaugurated in 1974 and is housed in one of the halls of the former
'Principe di Piemonte' barracks built in 1903.
Among the instruments of particular interest are those from the Greek and Roman eras
such as sistrums, crotalas and bells accompanied by a wealth of inconographic
documantation composed of best-reliefs, oil-lamps, small statues, etc. which portray
scenes of musical activity. |
Opening TimesEvery day from 8.30am to 7.30pm, closed on Monday. |
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Admission 2,00 |
Reduced 1,00 |
How to get there? Metro A to S. Giovanni, then five minute walk. |
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National Pasta Museum |  |
Piazza Scanderberg, 117 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.pastainmuseum.com |
It is a really unique museum that has no equal in the world.
It was established in 1993 under the impulse of the Vincenzo Agnesi Foundation.
The Museum is a small jewel of the history of the tradition which should be tasted even
in its amusing implications in the world of cinema and theatre, two of the museums
rooms are dedicated to photographs and curiosities, beside the realisations of modern
artists inspired by pasta, including Crista, Latella, Scaglone, Penιl and Di Raco. |
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Opening Times Every day from 9.30am to 5.30pm, closed on Dec.25th and Jan.1st |
Admission 9,00 |
Reduced 6,00 |
How to get there? BUS 62, 492 or 175 to Largo Chigi |
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Scuderie Papali al Quirinale |  |
Via XXIV Maggio Roma (Roma) |
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| www.scuderiequirinale.it |
Papal stables on the Quirinal Hill transformed in to a museum, there are
national and international exihibitions during the year. |
Opening times Opening hours and price dipending on the exhibition. |
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How to get there? Bus 492, 64 or 175 to Largo del Tritone, or 170 or 64
to Via Nazionale. |
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Complesso del Vittoriano |  |
Via S. Pietro in Carcere Roma (Roma) |
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It is situated behind the Vittorio Emanuele monument at Piazza Venezia.
This Mouseum often hosts some of the most important exhibitions in
Rome and Europe. |
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Opening TimesEvery day from 9.30am to 7.30pm, Friday and Saturday from 9.30am to 11.30pm,
Sunday from 9.30am to 8.30pm. |
Admission 8,50 |
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How to get there?Bus 40 Express or 64 to Piazza Venezia or Metro B to
Colosseo. |
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Palazzo delle Esposizioni |  |
Via Nazionale, 194 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.palazzoesposizioni.it |
It is one of the most important exhibition hall in Rome. |
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How to get there? Bus 64 or 40 Express |
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Museo del Corso |  |
Via del Corso, 320 Roma (Roma) |
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| www.museodelcorso.it |
It is small really central exhibition hall,and hosts different exhibitions
during the year.Opening time and prices dipend on the exhibition. |
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How to get there? Bus 62, 492 to Via del Corso or bus 64, 40 Express
to Piazza Venezia then short walk to Via del Corso. |
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Gate-Termini Art Gallery |  |
Roma Termini station, platform 24 Roma (Roma) |
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