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If you're a history buff, art aficionado, archaeology fiend, or dabbler in the sciences, our museum picks are perfect for a rainy day or afternoon excursion! Our selections center around notable collections of historical and cultural items. Many have excellent rotating displays in addition to exceptional permanent collections.
Category: Museums - Rome Attractions & Activities
Address: Piazza del Campidoglio 1, Rome 00186
Based upon an architectural sketch by Michelangelo, this 17th-century museum showcases a prominent collection of artifacts, art and archaeological finds. Items range from the first century BC to the 17th century AD, including the famous fragments of a massive sculpture of Constantine. The overflow of the Capitoline museums collection is housed at...
Castel Sant'Angelo National Museum
Category: Museums - Rome Attractions & Activities
Address: Lungotevere Castello 50, Rome 00193
A statue of the Archangel Michael stands atop the Castel Sant'Angelo and is the source of the castle's name. It was originally built in the second century as Emperor Hadrian's mausoleum. Visitors, especially kids, will be charmed by the draw bridges, trap doors, ditches, canons, dungeons, weapons and papal apartments here. The terrace of the...
Category: Museums - Rome Attractions & Activities
Address: Piazzale del Museo Borghese 5, Rome 00197
Centuries worth of collecting have made this one of the premier art museums in the world. It's small compared to many other art museums, with just 20 galleries on two floors. But those galleries are packed with an array of historically important (and well-known) works, including a circa 320AD Roman mosaic, several Caravaggio paintings, sculptures...
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Address: Piazza di Spagna 26, Rome
The apartment where influential English poet John Keats spent the last few months of his life is now a museum dedicated to the history of romanticism. Memorabilia, manuscripts, paintings, and books dedicated to the life and work of Keats, Shelley, Byron and Hunt. Guided tours by appointment. Metro: Spagna.
Category: Museums - Rome Attractions & Activities
Address: Piazza di Ponte Umberto I, Rome 00186
This museum contains fascinating material related to Napoleon's Italian Campaign, with special emphasis given to the Battle of Rivoli in 1797. Exhibits include paintings, original manuscripts and reproductions from the Napoleon period. Bus: 30, 70, 81, 87, 492, 628.
National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia
Category: Museums - Rome Attractions & Activities
Address: Piazzale di Villa Giulia 9, Rome 00196
This museum features an amazing collection of artifacts from an ancient civilization pre-dating Rome. Exhibits showcase the Etruscans' signature artistic flourishes with items such as jewelry, sculpture and pottery, including several items from the sixth century BC. TRAM: 3, 19.
Category: Museums - Rome Attractions & Activities
Address: Piazza Scanderbeg 117, Rome 00187
This is an appropriate museum for the world's pasta capital. Prepare for a most enlightening and appetizing experience, as you'll learn about how pasta is produced, prepared and preserved. On-site workshop demonstrates various cooking techniques, while other exhibits spotlight the relationship between pasta and art. There's also an interesting...
Palazzo Barberini Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica
Category: Museums - Rome Attractions & Activities
Address: Via delle Quattro Fontane 13, Rome 00184
This lavish 17th-century Baroque palace has served as the National Gallery of Antique Art since 1949. Items of interest include fine paintings such as Raphael's "Fornarina," frescoed ceilings, and a suite of rooms decorated in 1782 to commemorate a Barberini marriage. You'll be most taken with the majestic faηade, but even more so as you stroll...
Palazzo Massimo alle Terme Museo Nazionale Romano
Category: Museums - Rome Attractions & Activities
Address: Largo di Villa Peretti 1, Rome 00185
The Museo Nazionale Romano opened in 1889 and was initially housed exclusively in the third century Baths of Diocletian (Terme di Diocleziano, the largest of the imperial baths which remained in use until the water supply was cut off by the Goths in 537 AD) located across from the Stazione Termini. The museum expanded in 2000 and now fills four...
Category: Museums - Rome Attractions & Activities
Address: Viale Vaticano, Vatican City 00165
This vast gathering of museums boasts some of the world's most important relics. Extensive collection of Egyptian and Etruscan artifacts, Greco-Roman sculptures dating back as early as the first century BC, numerous archeological findings, and, of course, the legendary Raphael rooms and Sistine Chapel decorated by Michelangelo. Free entrance the...
