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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)

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.

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.

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.

National Roman Museum & Diocletian's Baths

Viale E. De Nicola, 78
Roma (Roma)

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

Admission ? 5,00 (or museum card)

Reduced ? 2,00

How to get there? Bus 64,40express or Metro A to Repubblica

Palazzo Massimo alle Terme


Roma (Roma)

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

Admission ? 6,00 (or museum card)

Reduced ? 3,00

How to get there? Remember that is located near TERMINI ST.

Octagonal Hall

Via G. Romita, 8
Roma (Roma)

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.

Free entrance Tue-Sun from 9am-2pm, hollidays from 9am-1pm.

How to get there? Metro A to Repubblica.

Palazzo Altemps

Piazza Sant'Apollinare, 46
Roma (Roma)

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

Admission ? 5,00 (or museum card)

Reduced ? 2,50

How to get there? Bus 30 express or 492,70,81,87.

Crypta Balbi

Via delle Botteghe Oscure, 31
Roma (Roma)

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

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.

Villa Giulia National Etruscan Museum

Piazzale di Villa Giulia, 9
Roma (Roma)

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

Admission ? 4,00 (or museum card)

reduced ? 2,00

How to get there? Tram 30 or 225 from metro A Flaminio.

National Museum Of Eastern Art

Via Merulana, 248
Roma (Roma)

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

Admission ? 4,00 (or museum card)

reduced ? 2,00

How to get there? Metro A to Vittorio Emanuele or Bus 714 to Via Merulana.

L. Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Etnography

Piazza Marconi, 14
Roma (Roma)

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

Admission ? 4,00 (or museum card)

reduced ? 2,00

How to get there? Metro B to EUR-FERMI or Bus 714 to Viale Marconi.

National Museumof the Early Middle Age

Viale lincoln, 3
Roma (Roma)

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

Admission ? 2,00 (or museum card)

reduced ? 1,00

National Museum of Castel san'Angelo

Lungotever Castello, 50
Roma (Roma)

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

Admission ? 6,50 (or museum card)

reduced ? 2,50

How to get there? Bus 40 Express or 64 to Castel Sant'Angelo

National Museum of Palazzo Venezia

Via del Plebiscito, 118
Roma (Roma)

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

Admission ? 4,00 (or museum card)

reduced ? 2,00

How to get there? Bus 64 from Termini.

Borghese Museum and Gallery

Piazzale del Museo Borghese
Roma (Roma)

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

Admission ? 8,50 (or museum card)

reduced ? 5,25

How to get there? Bus 116 or 910 to Via Pinciana.

NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART

Viale delle Belli Arti, 131
Roma (Roma)

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

Admission ? 6,50 (or museum card)

reduced? 3,25

How to get there? Tram 3 or 19

Corsini Gallery

della Lungara, 10
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission ? 4,00 (or museum card)

reduced ? 2,00

How to get there? 271 or 280 to Lungotevere della Farnesina

National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini

Via Barberini, 18
Roma (Roma)

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

Admission ? 5,00 (or museum card)

reduced ? 2,50

How to get there? Metro A to Barberini or bus 492

Spada Gallery

Piazza Capodiferro, 13
Roma (Roma)

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.

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.

Gallery Of The National Academy Of San Luca

Piazza dell'Accademia di S. Luca, 77
Roma (Roma)

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

How to get there? Bus 62 or 492 to Via del Tritone or Via del Corso.

Colonna Gallery

Via della Pilotta, 17
Roma (Roma)

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.

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.

Doria Pamphilj Gallery

Piazza del Collegio Romano, 2
Roma (Roma)

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.

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.

Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum

Via Boncompagni, 18
Roma (Roma)

.gnam.arti.beniculturali.it/concco.htm

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.

Free entrance from 9am to 7.30pm,closed on Monday.

How to get there? Metro A to Barberini then short walk or bus 492 or 62.

Historic Museum Of Garibaldi

Largo di Porta S. Pancrazio, 9
Roma (Roma)

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.

How to get there? 115 from Trastevere or bus 870 from Piazza fiorentini

Museum Of Italian Risorgimento

Via di San Pietro in Carcere
Roma (Roma)

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.

Free entrance every day from 9am to 6.30pm, closed on Monday.

How to get there? Bus 40 Express or 64 to Piazza Venezia.

Historic Museum Of The Liberation Of Rome

Via Tasso, 145
Roma (Roma)

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'.

Free entrance Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4pm to 7pm. Saturdays and Sundays from 9.30am to 12.30pm, closed on Mondays and Wednesdays.

How to get there? Metro A to Manzoni or bus 714 to via Merulana then short walk

Keats Shelley Memorial House

Piazza di Spagna, 26
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission ? 3,00

How to get there? Metro A to Spagna

H. C. Anderson Museum

Via Pasquale Stanislao Mancini, 20
Roma (Roma)

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.

Free entrance every day from 9am to 7pm ,closed on Monday.

How to get there? Metro A to Flaminio or bus 492 to Flaminio.

Giorgio De Chirico Memorial House Museum

Piazza di Spagna, 31
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission ? 5,16

How to get there? Metro A to Spagna.

Pirandello Memorial House

Via A. Bosio, 18
Roma (Roma)

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.

Free entrance every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday from 9am to 1.30pm.

Goethe Memorial House

Via del Corso, 18
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission ? 3,00

reduced ? 2,00

How to get there? Metro A to Spagna.

Canova-Tadolini Atelier Museum

Via del Babuino, 150/a/b
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission ? 3,00

How to get there? Metro A to Spagna or bus 492 to Flaminio.

Mario Praz's Museum

Via Giuseppe Zanardelli, 1
Roma (Roma)

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.

Free entrence every day from 9am to 1pm and from 2.30pm to 6.30pm,from2.30pm to 6.30pm on Monday.

How to get there? Bus 30 Express to Corso Rinascimento, or 492, 70, 81, 87 to Ponte Umberto I.

Capitoline Museums

Piazza del Campidoglio
Roma (Roma)

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

Admission ? 6,20

Reduced ? 4,20
Booking fee ? 1,20; fro groups ? 25,00; price including Centrale Montemartini ? 8,30

How to get there? Bus 40 Express, 62, 70, 64, 87, 170 to Piazza Venezia or Via del Teatro Marcello.

Barracco Museum

Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 166/a
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission ? 2,60

Reduced ? 1,60

How to get there? Bus 64 or 40 Express.

Museum Of Roman Civilization

Piazza Giovanni Agnelli, 10
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission ? 6,20

Reduced ? 3,10

How to get there? Metro B Eur-Fermi or bus 714 to Piazza G.Marconi

Museum Of The Walls

Via Porta San Sebastiano, 18
Roma (Roma)

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.

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).

Museum Of Rome At Palazzo Braschi

Piazza di San Pantaleo, 10
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission ? 6,20

Reduced ? 3,10

How to get there? Bus 30 Express, 40 Express, 64, 62, 70, 87, 492, 628.

Museum Of Rome In Trastevere

Piazza di Sant'Egidio, 1/b
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission € 2,60

Reduced € 1,60

How to get there? Bus 23 or 280 to Ponte Sisto.

Museum Of Rome In Trastevere

Piazza di Sant'Egidio, 1/b
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission € 2,60

Reduced € 1,60

How to get there? Bus 23 or 280 to Ponte Sisto.

Museum Of Rome In Trastevere

Piazza di Sant'Egidio, 1/b
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission € 2,60

Reduced € 1,60

How to get there? Bus 23 or 280 to Ponte Sisto.

Napoleonic Museum

Piazza di Ponte Umberto I, 1
Roma (Roma)

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.

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.

Museum Of Rome In Trastevere

Piazza di Sant'Egidio, 1/b
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission € 2,60

Reduced € 1,60

How to get there? Bus 23 or 280 to Ponte Sisto.

Napoleonic Museum

Piazza di Ponte Umberto I, 1
Roma (Roma)

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.

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.

Canonica Museum At Villa Borghese

Viale Canonica, 2
Roma (Roma)

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.

Macro-Museum Of Contemporary Art Of Rolla

Via Reggio Emilia, 54
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission € 2,60

Reduced 1,60

How to get there? Bus 492 or Metro A to Barberini.

Museum Of The Casina Delle Civitte

Via Nomentana, 7
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission € 2,60

Reduced € 1,60

How to get there? Bus 60 Express or 62, 90 Express to Via Nomentana/Villa Torlonia.

Modern And Contemporary Art Gallery

Via Francesco Crispi , 24
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission € 2,60

Reduced € 1,60

How to get there? Metro A to Spagna or bus 492 to Barberini.

Museum Of Teatro Argentina

Largo di Torre Argentina , 166/a
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission € 2,60

Reduced € 1,60

How to get there? Bus 64 or 40 Express.

Civic Zoology Museum (Within The Biopark)

Via Ulisse Aldrovandi, 18
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission € 4,20

Reduced € 2,60

How to get there? Metro A to Spagna or Flaminio

Mathematics Museum

Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5
Roma (Roma)

.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.

Free entrance from 9am to 6pm, closed on saturday and Sunday.

Explora (Children's Museum)

Via Flaminia, 80
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission Adult € 6,00, Children € 7.00, for groups € 5.00

How to get there? Metro A to Flaminio.

Franciscan's Museum

Grande Raccordo Anulare Km.65,200
Roma (Roma)

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.

Museum Of Jewidh Art

Lungotevere de' Cenci, 15
Roma (Roma)

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.

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.

Museum Of The Souls In Purgatory

Lungotevere Prati, 12
Roma (Roma)

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.

How to get there? Metro A to Ottaviano or tram 19 or bus 64 or 40 Express to Lungotevere.

Toys'S Museums

Via Vincenzo Coronelli, 24/26
Roma (Roma)

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.

Wax Museum

Piazza SS. Apostoli, 67
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission € 6,00

Reduced € 5,00

How to get there? Bus 64 or 40 Express to Piazza Venezia.

Museum Of Musical Instruments

Piazza Santa Croce in Gerusalemme , 9
Roma (Roma)

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.

Admission € 2,00

Reduced € 1,00

How to get there? Metro A to S. Giovanni, then five minute walk.

National Pasta Museum

Piazza Scanderberg, 117
Roma (Roma)

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.

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

Scuderie Papali al Quirinale

Via XXIV Maggio
Roma (Roma)

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.

How to get there? Bus 492, 64 or 175 to Largo del Tritone, or 170 or 64 to Via Nazionale.

Complesso del Vittoriano

Via S. Pietro in Carcere
Roma (Roma)

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.

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

How to get there?Bus 40 Express or 64 to Piazza Venezia or Metro B to Colosseo.

Palazzo delle Esposizioni

Via Nazionale, 194
Roma (Roma)

www.palazzoesposizioni.it

It is one of the most important exhibition hall in Rome.

How to get there? Bus 64 or 40 Express

Museo del Corso

Via del Corso, 320
Roma (Roma)

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.

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.

Gate-Termini Art Gallery

Roma Termini station, platform 24
Roma (Roma)

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