Pasqua nei Musei 2023 - Sistema Musei di Roma Capitale

The traditional appointment with Pasqua nei Musei is back. The event celebrates the Easter holidays with many surprises, extraordinary openings, art, entertainment, and educational activities.

With its unparalleled artistic and cultural heritage, Roma Capitale Museum System will open to the public at the usual times, including Easter Monday. It is an unmissable opportunity to visit its permanent collections and current exhibitions and participate in entertainment events and free educational activities, with an entrance ticket to the museum, where applicable.

The civic museums open are the Capitoline Museums, Centrale Montemartini, Trajan's Markets - Museum of the Imperial Fora, Ara Pacis Museum, Museum of Rome, Napoleonic Museum, Museum of Roma in Trastevere, Pietro Canonica Museum at Villa Borghese, Villa Torlonia Museums, Museum of the Walls, Carlo Bilotti Museum – Orangery of Villa Borghese, Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture, Civic Museum of Zoology, Museum of the Roman Republic and Garibaldi Memorial, Gallery of Modern Art, Casal de' Pazzi Museum, Serra Moresca, and Villa of Maxentius.

Entry to the Roma Capitale Museum System is always free for MIC Card holders, except for the Roma Medievale. Il volto perduto della città exhibition at the Museum of Rome - Palazzo Braschi, the immersive visit of the Circus Maximus in augmented and virtual reality, Circo Maximo Experience, and the shows at the Rome Planetarium, for which a reduced ticket is available.

During the Easter period, you can visit some archaeological areas of the city, such as the Circus Maximus and the integrated itinerary of the Imperial Fora.

THE EXHIBITIONS

In the rooms on the third floor of Palazzo Caffarelli at the Capitoline Museums, La Roma della Repubblica narrates the collections owned by the municipality conserved in the warehouses and museums of the Superintendence. Cursus honorum. Il governo di Roma prima di Cesare multimedia exhibition project is visible in the rooms on the ground floor of Palazzo dei Conservatori. It recalls the magistracies of the Republican age, the cornerstone of the political life of ancient Rome. In the Sala della Lupa and Fasti antichi of Palazzo dei Conservatori, with L’eredità di Cesare e la conquista del tempo, the story of Rome is told from its origins to the dawn of the imperial age. In Palazzo Clementino, you can admire the Colori degli antichi. Marmi Santarelli at the Capitoline Museums. It is a precious selection of over 660 polychrome marbles from the Imperial age, coming from the Capitoline collection and the Dino and Ernesta Santarelli Foundation.

The exhibition Colori dei Romani continues at the Centrale Montemartini, recently enriched with a further 16 works that have just been restored and never exhibited before, tell, through the colored texture of the marble tiles, fragments of the history of the city of Rome, also illustrating the original contexts of their discovery.

At the Casino dei Principi in Villa Torlonia, the Primarosa Cesarini Sforza exhibition traces the fifty years of the Roman artist's activity and illustrates the fundamental stages of her creative research between memory and the future.

The Museum of Rome at Palazzo Braschi, in the rooms on the ground floor, as part of QUOTIDIANA, the exhibition program of contemporary Italian art promoted by the Rome Quadriennale, presents PAESAGGIO, the exhibition by the twins Carlo and Fabio Ingrassia; for the PORTFOLIO section, it exhibits the work of the young artist Irene Fenara.

At Trajan's Markets - Museum of the Imperial Fora, until 10 April 10, 1932, l’elefante e il colle perduto illustrates the history of Velia in its stratifications and occupations over time until its excavation as part of the urban redesign of the area for the construction of via dell'Impero, now via dei Fori Imperiali.

There are three current exhibitions at the Museum of Roma in Trastevere:

• ARMANDO TROVAJOLI. Una leggenda in musica. On the tenth anniversary of the death of the great musician, composer, and conductor, the rooms on the ground floor host a rich collection of documents, photos, videos, music, and personal objects, to retrace his entire career.
• La movida. Spagna 1980-1990 by photographer and artist Miguel Trillo. In over 60 photographs, the exhibition recounts the cultural movement known as La Movida and its social and political consequences.
• I Romanisti. Cenacoli e vita artistica da Trastevere al Tridente (1929 – 1940). In about 100 works, including paintings, sculptures, graphics, photographs, and documents, life and culture in Rome between the end of the 1920s and 1940 is outlined.

The Gallery of Modern Art of Rome hosts Pasolini Pittore. One hundred years after his birth, the exhibition focuses on the pictorial skills of Pier Paolo Pasolini in the context of the history of 20th-century art. In the graphics room, Visual Diary by Liana Miuccio reveals a visual journey in the form of a diary built through the artist's photos and videos in dialogue with the written word of Jhumpa Lahiri.

At the Carlo Bilotti Museum – Orangery of Villa Borghese, Pericle Fazzini, lo scultore del vento traces the entire creative life of the master through sculptures of various sizes (wood, bronze, and plaster), drawings and graphic works: from the first rehearsals from the 1930s and 1940s up to the original sketches of the Resurrezione in the Pier Luigi Nervi room in the Vatican.

Appointment at the Museum of the Walls for Bōchōtei. Vite all’ombra del muro. Enrico Graziani, the photographic exhibition focused on the consequences of the construction of massive tsunami protection walls, with an eye above all on the architectural and social impact and the inhabitants' daily life.

THE EVENTS

The program of events kicks off under the banner of music and theater with three concerts for piano and one for quintet, in collaboration with the Roma Tre Orchestra, and with dramatized readings with live songs on the theme of peace and war, inspired by texts by Calvino. In collaboration with the Teatro di Roma.

In collaboration with the Roma Tre Orchestra, the Napoleonic Museum hosts three piano concerts with music by Brahms, Schumann, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and Liszt.

The Pietro Canonica Museum at Villa Borghese, the Carlo Bilotti Museum – Orangery of Villa Borghese, the Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture, and the Napoleonic Museum welcome five performances of the Le città e la guerra. In collaboration with the Teatro di Roma.

Free events are subject to the availability of seats.

THE EDUCATIONAL VISITS

A rich offer of visits, itineraries, and workshops, through which you can learn about the history of Rome and its museum collections, in an unusual and fun way, for all ages and every taste.

See you at the Serra Moresca of Villa Torlonia to retrace the history of the complex, with its shiny polychrome windows and the elegant structure in peperino, iron, and cast iron.

At the Ara Pacis Museum, children will learn by playing, drawing, and coloring among the plants and flowers of the altar dedicated to Peace.

At the Museum of the Roman Republic and Garibaldi Memorial, Puzzle quiz, aggiungi la tessera e svela la storia!, a fun team competition to piece together tile after tile of places and characters from the Roman Republic of 1849.

The Capitoline Museums offer C’erano una volta una lupa e due gemelli, an activity dedicated to families getting to know the mythical foundation of Rome together.

At the Civic Museum of Zoology with the Ecosistemi e biodiversità workshop, adults and children can immerse themselves in the rich natural heritage preserved in the museum.

At the Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture, a visit to the Roman House in the basement: a journey through time, up to the era of imperial Rome, to discover a wide colonnaded building in the ancient Campo Marzio.

The Museum of the Walls hosts the meeting Le mura di Roma: Porta San Sebastiano e il suo camminamento, an itinerary along the stretch of the wall adjacent to the ancient Appian Way.

The Centrale Montemartini offers a guided tour of the Colori dei Romani exhibition. The mosaics from the Capitoline collections are a journey to learn about exceptional marble decorations, some of which have never been exhibited before.

At the Civic Museum of Zoology, an appointment for adults and children with Sensi in gioco where, among leaves and flowers, the sounds of verses and insects, smells and perfumes, you can tickle the senses and experience how other animals use their sense of smell, touch and the view.

Meeting at Villa Torlonia with Il paesaggio in trasparenza. Arte e botanica nella Casina delle Civette: a guide to all the decorative elements (stucco, wood, wrought iron, floors) of the furniture and windows, from an artistic and botanical point of view.

The Casal de' Pazzi Museum retraces the history of the formation and discovery of the deposit, reconstructing the appearance of the area around Rome 200,000 years ago. You can try your hand at recognizing the skeletal parts of various animals and the traces left on the bones by different types of human interventions.

The last meeting is on Easter Sunday at 11.30 am in Piazzale Scipione Borghese for the Villa Borghese itinerary: real animals and fantastic animals, real animals and stone animals in search of animal sculptures in peperino, marble or travertine placed to decorate the portals, buildings, furnishings, and fountains in the park.

Monday 10 April, at 10 am, meeting in piazza Benedetto Cairoli with Perché si chiama così? Streets, alleys, and squares tell secrets and legends to learn the history of the toponyms encountered along the way, helping us understand the urban growth of this part of the city, learn about its social changes and folklore aspects, and discover its curiosities.

Adults and children are invited to the meeting Nei panni degli antichi Romani at the Museum of the Walls, where you can browse the secrets of tunics, peplums, and togas and then, in the laboratory part, try your hand at making crepe paper clothes.

The visit I giganti dell’acqua. Gli acquedotti nella Roma antica takes place inside the Parco degli Acquedotti, crossed by six of the eleven aqueducts that supplied Rome in ancient times, plus one from the Renaissance, in a typical setting of the Roman countryside.

End of Easter Monday in the Campidoglio at noon, with a visit to the Capitoline Museums: a guided tour of the works in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, the Palazzo Nuovo, and the Galleria Lapidaria.

All meetings are free with an entrance ticket at current rates, where applicable, and with reservations required on 060608, subject to the availability of seats. Free admission to the Civic Museums with the MIC Card.