The Capitoline museums


As a collection of ancient sculptures, the first group was begun by Julius II (1503-13) but it was Clement XIII (1758-69) who had the Secular Museum created with the assistance of
[...]Located in the historical heart of Rome, really next to the Pantheon, IKONO Roma is the
[...]Located in via della Reginella, in the heart of the ancient Jewish Ghetto, this museum is a small jewel dedicated to the 20th-century culture, bor
[...]The Central Institute for Graphics is hosted inside the monumental complex of the Trevi Fountain and includes Palazzo Poli and the adjoining
In one of the city’s most iconic and loved places, just besides the Spanish Steps, there is a Britis
[...]The Galleria Nazionale, opened in Rome in 1883, was transferred to Valle Giulia for the Universal Exhibition of 1911.
A new hub dedicated to art and culture that aims to become a reference for Romans and tourists alike: this is the exhibition space born in the southern quadrant of the city, a shor
[...]The idea of endowing Rome with a national museum dedicated to contemporary arts took shape in 1997 when the then Ministry of Cultural Heritage obtained fr
[...]The Museum of the Imperial Fora, in the Trajan's Markets, is topographically and conceptually linked to the impressive urban system of the Imperial Fora: of Caesar
[...]The Leonardo da Vinci Machines Exhibition celebrates the universal genius of Leonardo da Vinci by presenting about fifty full scale machines: flying machines, like the precursor to the parachute, a
[...]On September 2016, after a complex restoration and reorganization of the structures by the Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo, MuCiv - Museo delle Civiltà
[...]Inaugurated in 2008 in its new location at the Auditorium Parco della Musica
[...]The birth of Musei Capitolini dates from 1471, when Pope Sisto IV gave the roman people a set of bronze statues, forming the first set of the collection kept in th
[...]The Casina delle Civette (The House of the Owls) is the result of a series of transformations and additions carried out on the 19th century Swiss Hut, the prince's
[...]In 1832, Prince Alessandro Torlonia commissioned a series of embellishment works for the sumptuous family residence on Via Nomentana, entrusting the Venetian architect Gius
[...]In the 90s, during the works for the construction of the Auditorium Parco della Musica
[...]Likened to the ancient Greek sculptor Phidias for his ability to revive the ideal of classical beauty through marble, in 1818 Antonio Canova was at the height of h
[...]The Carlo Bilotti Museum is located in the old Orangery at Villa Borghese, which during the eighteenth century was referred to as the "Casino dei Giuochi d’Acqua" due to the many fountains and nymp
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