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Museums in Rome
Rome, as everyone knows, is the city of art par excellence, rich in history, monuments, squares and places of art on permanent display. Walking through the old town you can run into many museums.
The museums is vast in quantity and quality, let the majesty of the Vatican Museums, with more than four million visitors a year, the central and ancient Capitoline Museums, continuing with the museums of enormous significance as the Borghese Gallery and Museum archaeological.
There are also even science museums such as the Planetarium, which in recent times has aroused the curiosity of many, including children, or contemporary art museums, which often host major exhibitions.
The variety of museums joins the amount of assets linked to them. There are numerous guided tours to allow everyone a better understanding of museums, the programs for schools and the public allows even the smallest of discovering the so light and fun, and finally for those who could not renounce the shopping can count on a large number of bookshops where you can find catalogs of current exhibitions, books for further study, but also gifts and souvenirs.
A wide range of "card" complete the cultural landscape, facilitating tourist travel and payment in museums.
To see the complete list of museums in Rome www.060608.it
DO NOT MISS:
ROMAN FORUM
The Roman Forum, located in the valley between the Palatine and the Capitol, consists of a square shape almost Trapez ...
COLOSSEUM
Were the emperors of the Flavian family to build the amphitheater, gladiatorial shows and intended for hunting wild animals, which in later centuries would become the very symbol of the eternity of Rome.
National Gallery of Ancient Art - Palazzo Barberini
Designed as a culmination of the ascent of a papal family, the huge complex of Palazzo Barberini was built by the Florentine Pope Urban VIII, who in 1625, two years after rising to the papacy, taking advantage of a financial setbacks suffered by the Sforza of Santa Fiora, bought their vast plot of land between the Via Quattro Fontane and Via Pia (now Via XX Settembre) with its finely decorated buildings, to realize the grand plan of a palace-villa able to compete with the most luxurious residences of the Roman nobility .
Musei di Villa Torlonia - House of the Owls and Casino Nobile
There are few places like the Casino Nobile contain within themselves so much history, the pomp of the Torlonia Fascism.
MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATION 'ROMAN
The Museum is a documentary that is worth teaching, because the material presented is essentially reproductions of examples of classical archeology lost or destroyed or works, now broken up into several parts, reassembled into their original unity.
MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma
MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma - comes from the reorganization of the structures the Capitoline deputies to the promotion of contemporary art.
Ara Pacis Museum
The Ara Pacis Museum is the first work of architecture built in the historic center of Rome since the fall of fascism today. The project was written by Richard Meier & Partners Architects, author of some of the most important museums of the second half of the twentieth century.
Galleria Borghese
Superb collection of seventeenth-century cardinals come down to us substantially intact and even enhanced by the additions of historical end 700.
VATICAN MUSEUMS
The first group, a collection of ancient sculptures, was established by Julius II (1503-13). The idea of the museum was conceived by Clement XIII (1758-69), who with the assistance of Winckelmann had set up the Profane Museum. With Clement XIV (1769-74) and Pius VI (1775-99) was the Pio Clementino Museum in 1807-10 and, under Pius VII, is prepared by Canova Museum Chiaramonti.
MUSEUMS CAPITOLINI
Founded in 1471 by Pope Sixtus IV to the Roman people with the donation of the bronze statue of the Lateran (Lupa, the Spinario, Camillo and the colossal head of Constantine with his hand and the orb of power), is considered the oldest public museum in the world, the return of these works - a sign of past grandeur of Rome - the people of the city acquires a higher symbolic value, because the Capitol had always been the center of religious life of ancient Rome and, after a long period of abandonment, site of the civil courts since the Middle Ages.
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Museums in Rome
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Rome, as everyone knows, is the city of art par excellence, rich in history, monuments, squares and places of art on permanent display. Walking through the old town you can run into many museums. The museums is vast in quantity and quality, let the majesty of the Vatican Museums, with more than four million visitors a year, the central and ancient Capitoline Museums, continuing with the museums of enormous significance as the Borghese Gallery and Museum archaeological. There are also even science museums such as the Planetarium, which in recent times has aroused the curiosity of many, including children, or contemporary art museums, which often host major exhibitions. The variety of museums joins the amount of assets linked to them. There are numerous guided tours to allow everyone a better understanding of museums, the programs for schools and the public allows even the smallest of discovering the so light and fun, and finally for those who could not renounce the shopping can count on a large number of bookshops where you can find catalogs of current exhibitions, books for further study, but also gifts and souvenirs. A wide range of "card" complete the cultural landscape, facilitating tourist travel and payment in museums. To see the complete list of museums in Rome www.060608.it DO NOT MISS: ROMAN FORUM The Roman Forum, located in the valley between the Palatine and the Capitol, consists of a square shape almost Trapez ... COLOSSEUM Were the emperors of the Flavian family to build the amphitheater, gladiatorial shows and intended for hunting wild animals, which in later centuries would become the very symbol of the eternity of Rome. National Gallery of Ancient Art - Palazzo Barberini Designed as a culmination of the ascent of a papal family, the huge complex of Palazzo Barberini was built by the Florentine Pope Urban VIII, who in 1625, two years after rising to the papacy, taking advantage of a financial setbacks suffered by the Sforza of Santa Fiora, bought their vast plot of land between the Via Quattro Fontane and Via Pia (now Via XX Settembre) with its finely decorated buildings, to realize the grand plan of a palace-villa able to compete with the most luxurious residences of the Roman nobility . Musei di Villa Torlonia - House of the Owls and Casino Nobile There are few places like the Casino Nobile contain within themselves so much history, the pomp of the Torlonia Fascism. MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATION 'ROMAN The Museum is a documentary that is worth teaching, because the material presented is essentially reproductions of examples of classical archeology lost or destroyed or works, now broken up into several parts, reassembled into their original unity. MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma - comes from the reorganization of the structures the Capitoline deputies to the promotion of contemporary art. Ara Pacis Museum The Ara Pacis Museum is the first work of architecture built in the historic center of Rome since the fall of fascism today. The project was written by Richard Meier & Partners Architects, author of some of the most important museums of the second half of the twentieth century. Galleria Borghese Superb collection of seventeenth-century cardinals come down to us substantially intact and even enhanced by the additions of historical end 700. VATICAN MUSEUMS The first group, a collection of ancient sculptures, was established by Julius II (1503-13). The idea of the museum was conceived by Clement XIII (1758-69), who with the assistance of Winckelmann had set up the Profane Museum. With Clement XIV (1769-74) and Pius VI (1775-99) was the Pio Clementino Museum in 1807-10 and, under Pius VII, is prepared by Canova Museum Chiaramonti. MUSEUMS CAPITOLINI Founded in 1471 by Pope Sixtus IV to the Roman people with the donation of the bronze statue of the Lateran (Lupa, the Spinario, Camillo and the colossal head of Constantine with his hand and the orb of power), is considered the oldest public museum in the world, the return of these works - a sign of past grandeur of Rome - the people of the city acquires a higher symbolic value, because the Capitol had always been the center of religious life of ancient Rome and, after a long period of abandonment, site of the civil courts since the Middle Ages.
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