Museo del Genio

Located among the refined Umbertine and Art Nouveau architectures of the Vittoria district, an emanation of modern post-unification Rome, the Museo dell'Arma del Genio (Engineering Corps Museum) opens permanently to the public for the first time on 31 October 2025.

A testament to the close connection between civil society and military Genius in the fields of engineering and architecture, the museum is being transformed, thanks to Difesa Servizi, on behalf of the Ministero della Difesa e delle Forze Armate (Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces), into a new cultural venue for Rome.

The name Museo del Genio (Engineering Museum) was chosen to immediately convey the identity of a place that is much more than a museum, and its full name, Istituto Storico e di Cultura dell'Arma del Genio (ISCAG) dell'Esercito Italiano (Historical and Cultural Institute of the Italian Army Corps of Engineers), reveals its unique nature: a centre that combines a museum, a specialist library, a historical and photographic archive, and a place of study, research and memory.

A new cultural space, therefore, and a place that tells the story of intelligence as a transformative force: from engineering to communications, from flight to the future.

The museum invites you to embark on a fascinating journey, where ingenuity, technology and beauty intertwine in the story of military engineering. Through models, instruments and inventions, you can discover how human intelligence has been able to transform the challenges of construction, communication and flight into opportunities for progress.

A visionary spirit evidenced by objects of exceptional value such as the original radio equipment of Guglielmo Marconi who, with the invention of the radio, changed the history of global communication forever. A small display case houses one of the very first telephones created by Antonio Meucci, alongside its subsequent developments, field telephones and military switchboards.

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