Musei Vaticani

Rome (22 Km)

In the State of the Vatican, the Vatican museums welcome visitors with works of priceless value, collected by the popes during their existence or often commissioned by them, as the Sistine Chapel and the Raphael Rooms.

Scuderie del Quirinale

Rome (23 Km)

Adjacent to the Quirinal Palace, it has 1500 square meters of exhibition area on the first and second floor. Of particular interest are the exhibitions that are held and continue to mark the memory with the public and art historians.

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Palazzo Barberini

Rome (23 Km)

A collection of works by the great masters of the XVI and XVII century, such as Raphaeland Caravaggio. Masters mainly of the Italian painting, but also many foreign artists. To be seen!

Galleria Nazionale d’ Arte Moderna e Contemporanea

Rome (21 Km)

A huge collection of modern Italian art. It was established in 1883, it has 4,400 works of painting and sculpture of Italian artists, most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also deals with ‘living’ art.

Museo Civico Archeologico

Nepi (17 Km)

The Civic Archaeological Museum of Nepi was established in 1995 at the headquarters of the Palazzo Comunale, located in the historic center of the city. The museum is composed of two rooms where funeral sets from the Falische and Inscriptions necropolis are exhibited as well as sculptures from the Roman age coming from the town of the ancient city.

Museo Storico dell'Aeronautica Militare

Bracciano (19 Km)

The Historical Museum of the Air Force is located on the shore of Lake Bracciano where the first Aeronautical Experimental Shipyard was created. The Museum covers an area of 13,000 square meters and is divided into four large exhibition halls where more than sixty aircraft are welcomed that tell the story of the Italian Air Force.

Museo Civico di Bracciano

Bracciano (22 Km)

The Civic Museum of Bracciano is set up inside the former convent of Santa Maria Novella and performs the function of illustrating through materials and objects of the place the history and life of the city and its inhabitants. The exhibition is divided into three sections that trace the first years of the settlement of the Etruscans until the civil society of the 19th century. Particular interest is the historical and artistic room that welcomes in particular the Christ Salvador Mundi, the work of the circle of Andrea Bregno.

Musei Vaticani Collezione d'arte religiosa Moderna

Rome (22 Km)

The Collection of Modern Religious Art was established in 1973 by Pope Paul VI and is located in the Borgia apartment, on the first floor of the Papal Palace, as well as in some rooms below the Sistine Chapel. It is part of the Vatican Museums and was founded to exhibit donations and contemporary works of art that best express religious sentiment. We also find in the first section the sculptural work of Auguste Rodin “The Hand of God”.

Musei Vaticani: Cappella Sistina

Rome (23 Km)

The Sistine Chapel was performed by painters such as Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio and others, and took its name from Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere. The vault with the starry sky was painted by Pier Matteo d'Amelia. The fifteenth-century walls were decorated with themes such as the stories of Moses, of Christ and the portraits of the Pontiffs. Giulio II della Rovere, entrusted Michelangelo Buonarroti to modify the part in decoration and he painted the vault and the lunettes of the walls. We also find 9 central boxes depicting the history of Genesis and the rebirth of humanity with Noah's family.

Musei Vaticani: Gallerie dei Candelabri, Arazzi e Carte Geografiche

Rome (22 Km)

The Candelabri Gallery was built in 1761 by Pius VI and was initially a loggia. Its name comes from the presence of marble candlesticks from Roman times. In the Gallery of Tapestries we find works commissioned by Pope Clement VII to decorate the Sistine Chapel. The tapestries inside the Scuola Nuova were woven in Brussels. In addition, in the Gallery of Geographical Maps there are several frescoed maps exhibiting the topography of the Italian regions and of the Papal State.

Musei Vaticani: Museo Chiaramonti

Rome (22 Km)

The Chiaramonti Museum is named after Pope Pius VII Chiaramonti and was built in 1806, during the excavations of the Papal State in Roman antiquarians. Of great importance was the work of Antonio Canova who was the one who managed the criteria for the ordering of the museum. In fact, he wanted to present the three sister arts such as sculpture, architecture and painting with his frescoes. The Museum currently consists of a thousand ancient and funeral sculptures.

Musei Vaticani: Museo Gregoriano Egizio

Rome (22 Km)

The Gregorian Egyptian Museum was founded in 1839 at the behest of Pope Gregory XVI. Its function was to collect ancient Egyptian artifacts collected in the city of Rome and from the Villa Adriana. These finds can be seen in the nine halls of the Museum where many sculptures are placed, both those of the collection and those coming from ancient Mesopotamia.

Museo "Hendrik Christian Andersen"

Rome (21 Km)

The Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum exhibits the works of the Norwegian painter and sculptor Hendrik Christian Andersen. The painter had his own utopian project of a World City or rather than a workshop of ideas in which he studies art, religion, philosophy and sciences. On the ground floor of the museum we find models and finished works on the project the World City. On the first floor we find collections and also exhibitions focused on the links of foreign artists with Italy between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Museo del Vicino Oriente

Rome (23 Km)

The Museum of the Near East was established in 1971 to preserve the finds from the Institute of Studies of the Near East. It has an educational function and is divided into two sections: Egypt Section with materials from 1964, coming from the Italian Archaeological Mission in Egypt and Eastern Section in which we can admire finds excavated in Israel like those of Ramat Rahel and Akhziv.

Museo Centrale del Risorgimento

Rome (24 Km)

The Central Museum of the Risorgimento was inaugurated in 1970 and its history is linked to the collection of the testimonies relating to the political, economic and social transformation of Italy in the 18th, 19th centuries and XX. We find inside the museum depicted the history of Italy with a section dedicated to the main figures of the Italian Risorgimento such as Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Mazzini and the Count of Cavour Camillo Benso. You can also visit the archive that has over a million manuscripts and documents, as well as a collection of prints and photographs.

Museo "Mario Praz"

Rome (23 Km)

The main feature of the Mario Praz Museum is to be a home — museum. This is a private apartment of the collector who lived in the period 1896—1982. The rich collection, of about 1,200 objects and the library are located on the 3rd floor of Palazzo Primoli. The museum is now open to the public.

Museo "P. Canonica"

Rome (21 Km)

The Pietro Canonica Museum is located inside the Villa Borghese in Rome. There are mainly works by Pietro Canonica in marble, bronze, sketches and studies representing the complete evolution of the artist. The museum is divided by rooms, seven in general. The peculiarity of the museum lies in the existence of a private apartment, in which you can admire art objects, tapestries and a seventeenth-century armor.

Casa Museo Giorgio De Chirico

Rome (22 Km)

The Giorgio De Chirico House Museum is located in one of the most beautiful, fascinating and among the most visited squares in Rome, Piazza di Spagna. Here the artist lived since 1948, after a long wandering between European cities and New York. The house-museum was inaugurated in 1998 and inside it you can find a great deal of works, as well as furnishings and environments typical of the fifties of the twentieth century. It is also possible to visit the artist's studio located on the second floor and where we also find several chalks of ancient statues and horses.

Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna

Rome (23 Km)

The Gallery of Modern Art in Rome was founded in 1883, as a representation of contemporary artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the gallery you can contemplate more than 4000 paintings and sculptures and more than 13,000 drawings and prints. For the '900 we notice many works of the figurative culture of divisionism, documenting, thus, the period known as the Roman School. From the 1800s we admire works that show the passage between Neoclassicism and Romanticism.

Museo dei Cappuccini

Rome (23 Km)

The Capuchin Museum is famous all over the world for its striking ossuary crypt. In the Museum there are many objects used in the past by the friars who lived in this structure that at the time housed the Convent of the Friars Minor Capuchin. Nowadays, thanks to the help of high-tech with innovative tools such as touch-screen and holograms, tourists can live a multimedia experience and dedicated to modernity to discover the aspects fundamentals of the life and culture of these friars.

Galleria Borghese

Rome (22 Km)

Galleria Borghese, contains the works of painting and sculpture by the collector and Cardinal Scipione, son of Ortensia Borghese. Inside the gallery rooms, there are works from the 15th century to the 18th century including Bernini's “Apollo and Daphne “and “David with the Head of Goliath “by Caravaggio. The building is one of the most visited galleries in Rome given the majestic collection of considerable artistic value.

Istituto di Patologia del Libro

Rome (24 Km)

The Central Institute of Book Pathology was established in 1938 and since then it has been managed by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage. His field is to study the damages that the book material can suffer. In the rooms of the Museum we can find the history of the book, its production and the causes or damages due to the deterioration of paper material. Today, this institution is open to the public.

Pinacoteca Vaticana

Rome (22 Km)

The Vatican Art Gallery was inaugurated and built by the architect Luca Beltrami on 27 October 1932, according to the directives of Pius XI. It is located in the Square Garden, considered suitable for ensuring the best lighting conditions. The idea of a Pinacoteca was born after the fall of Napoleon in 1817, following the return to the State of the Church of the works he belongs. Currently, it houses 460 paintings from the XII-XIX centuries arranged in eighteen rooms.

Mercati di Traiano

Rome (24 Km)

The Mercati di Traiano is an extensive complex of buildings on the slopes of Colle Quirinale. The complex previously extended beyond the limits of the current area and was destined for administrative activities and was linked to the grandiose urban planning system of the Imperial Forums. The structure exhibits recompositions of scores of the architectural and sculptural decoration of the Fori obtained with original fragments, casts and stone integrations.

Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica

Rome (23 Km)

The National Institute for Graphics was founded in 1975 from the union of National Calcography and the National Cabinet of Prints. The union of the offices in 2008 also brought together all the beautiful collections of the Calcography and the Cabinet of Prints. Currently, there are numerous works of a calcographic character, woodcut, artist videos and photographs collected since the opening of the structure.

Museo Africano

Rome (21 Km)

The African Museum of Rome was established in 1923 with the task of describing and illustrating the Italian colonies in Africa. Inside the Museum there was a library and numerous beautiful collections divided by sections. In addition, the visitor can admire artwork, handicraft elements, paintings, jewelry etc.

Antiquarium Forense

Rome (24 Km)

The Forensic Antiquarium was created in the early twentieth century by Giacomo Boni. It is located in the rooms on the ground floor of the well-known cloister of Santa Francesca Romana. We find on display in various rooms some funerary finds and objects found in childhood tombs dating from the 8th to 7th century BC. Of great importance are also some reliefs of the Basilica Aemilia which are also of great importance. The themes of the myth of Aeneas and the history of the city resume.

Casa di Goethe

Rome (22 Km)

The House of Goethe, which was inaugurated in 1997 by the architect Pietro Bracci, is located in the Campo Marzio district in Rome. The building is dedicated to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his Journey to Italy, made from 3 September 1786 to 18 June 1788. The various rooms of the interior contain various elements of the biennial period in which the German artist lived his holiday in Rome.

Galleria Borghese

Rome (22 Km)

A collection of paintings and sculptures from the XV to the XVIII century. Thanks to the initial collection of Cardinal Scipione Borghese it houses masterpieces by Antonello da Messina, Giovanni Bellini, Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio and others.

Galleria Colonna

Rome (52 Km)

Galleria Colonna is a Roman Baroque artistic work, commissioned in the mid-1600s, by Cardinal Girolamo I Colonna and inaugurated by his son Lorenzo Onofrio in 1700. The gallery was designed in such a way as to represent the victory of the Christian fleet over the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. In fact, in the rooms of the Gallery, the commander of the fleet is painted at various times, namely Marcantonio II Colonna. In addition to many other works of great importance, we also find the painting by Bronzino depicting Venus, Cupid and Satyr.

Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea

Rome (23 Km)

The Municipal Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome and its collections date back to 1883. Its headquarters was first at Palazzo Caffarelli, in the Campidoglio and with the accumulation of new and important works, it was decided, in 1925, to place the Gallery in what was the Convent of the Carmelites, in Via Crispi. In the Gallery we can find several works ranging from Realism to Divisionism and works by various Italian artists such as De Chirico, Morandi and Guttuso.

Galleria dell'Accademia Nazionale di San Luca

Rome (23 Km)

The Galleria dell'Accademia Nazionale di San Luca is located in the Palazzo Carpegna and on its top floors are exhibited the collections of the Accademia itself. We find inside the Gallery paintings and works that portray the members and principles who took part in the formation of the Academy. The gallery currently has a wide collection of paintings and sculptures and, among them, about five hundred portraits.

Galleria Doria Pamphilj

Rome (23 Km)

The Doria Pamphilj Gallery is part of the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, which was originally the residence of Cardinal Fazio Santoro and dates back to the early sixteenth century. The Gallery was decorated by Ginesio del Barba and, along its walls, you can see many extraordinary works, among all, of great value, we admire the View of the Port of Naples, of the Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. We can also observe the wonderful Madonna and Child, by Giovanni Bellini as well as many other works of an important artistic component.

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna

Rome (21 Km)

The National Gallery of Modern Art was established in 1883 by Guido Baccelli and its headquarters was that of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Via Nazionale in Rome. Then, for a lack of space and insufficient space, to collect the works, the current building was designed by the Roman engineer Cesare Bazzani. The Museum has 55 rooms and over four thousand four hundred works of painting and sculpture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We can find works such as those of Francesco Hayez and Antonio Canova, as well as the works of Balla and Boccioni.

Museo Civico di Zoologia

Rome (21 Km)

The Civic Museum of Zoology was established in 1932, and within it we find millions of specimens coming from private and public collections. The history of the museum actually dates back to the early 19th century, when in the tropical countries in addition to other collections that were donated to the popes, also examples of exotic birds came from the missions. Today, more than 5 million unique and particular specimens from different civilizations can be observed.

Museo d'Arte Contemporanea

Rome (26 Km)

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome was inaugurated in 2002 under the name 'Macro' and at its direction is Danilo Eccher. The building was expanded around 2010 by the architect Odile Decq. The rich collection presents about six hundred works.

Museo delle Mura

Rome (26 Km)

The Museum of the Walls is part of the Aurelian Walls and is located inside the Gate of San Sebastiano in Rome. The idea of the Museum was born after World War II when the Gate was opened to the public, but the official opening of the Museum deliberated by the City Council took place in 1989. The Museum is located in seven rooms and there is also a terrace and a walkway.

Museo della Basilica di San Pancrazio

Rome (25 Km)

The Museum is located on the Gianicolo Hill inside the Basilica of San Pancrazio, on the place where the martyr was buried. The materials present the finds belonging to the church during the 5th century and some fossils found during the excavations: capitals, sarcophagi, funeral peaks, Greek and Latin epigraphs, statues, etc.

Museo della Casina delle Civette

Rome (22 Km)

The Museum of the Casina delle Civette is located in the former Torlonia house, designed in 1840 by Giuseppe Jappelli. In 1978, the Municipality of Rome had the Villa Torlonia complex open to the public, initially only the park and after long restorations also the Casina delle Civette in which today the homonymous museum is located. The building from the outside is characterized by 54 stained glass windows, instead inside, presents the 20 museum rooms with rich collections of mosaics, wall paintings, boiseries and stuccoes.

Museo dei Bambini "Explora"

Rome (21 Km)

The Explora Children's Museum was established in 1994. The project was born from a collaboration between the Children's Museum Association, the Institute of Psychology of the C.N.R. and the Municipality of Rome. The structure dedicated to children is the first private museum of its kind. To date, it represents an important opportunity for knowledge and interaction in an environment designed for the little ones.

Museo di Antropologia Giuseppe Sergi

Rome (23 Km)

The Museum of Anthropology was founded in 1884, by Giuseppe Sergi. Inside it we can admire the findings of current human variability and the natural history of Homo sapiens and other primates. The Museum is divided into two paths, Paleoanthropology and the path of the History of Anthropology to Sapienza from 1800 to 1900. You can also visit the findings of two Neanderthals found in Rome.

Museo di Chimica

Rome (23 Km)

The Museum of Chemistry was established in 1986 and initially had only a box of glasses, in which some willing had begun to dispose of equipment deemed interesting. Later, in 1988, the Department of Chemistry assigned to the Museum another space where a large glass wardrobe from Via Panisperna was exhibited. The Museum currently exhibits scientific equipment and some documents belonging to S. Cannizzaro, dating back to 1872, the year in which he established the Royal Chemical Institute.

Museo di Criminologia

Rome (23 Km)

The Criminology Museum was established in 1930 and immediately received appreciation from abroad thanks to the richness of the historical and scientific heritage it kept. It had several renovations and the last one dates back to 1991. The Museum presents historical testimonies on the punitive systems of the past and is an educational tool for training institutions.

Museo della Civiltà Romana

Rome (31 Km)

The Museum of Roman Civilization was opened to the public in 1955. The current collections of the museum come from the collections of the Archaeological Exhibition of 1911 of the Museum of the Roman Empire. The museum is divided into fifty-nine sections and inside it we can admire reproductions of statues, busts, part of the full-size buildings and reliefs. Among the works of greatest interest we can remember the model of ancient Rome at the time of Constantine I.

Museo di Anatomia Comparata

Rome (23 Km)

The Museum of Comparative Anatomy is based in the University of Sapienza in Rome. Its origins date back to 1805 when during the Pontificate of Pius VII, a Muse was set up. The visitor can find in the rooms of the Museum, as well as an exhibition of vertebrate skeletons also instruments, such as the Leeuwenhoek microscope.

Museo di Antichità Etrusche e Italiche

Rome (23 Km)

The Museum of Etruscan and Italic Antiquities was founded in the 1950s by Massimo Pallottino. Inside we can admire many original archaeological finds: casts and models concerning the Etruscan culture of pre-Roman Italy. The Museum is spread over two floors occupying an exhibition area of 570 square meters, where two collections are exhibited, the Gorga Collection and the Rellini Collection. The collections preserve ceramics from the Etruscan area and falisca area materials.

Museo Teatrale del Burcardo

Rome (23 Km)

The Burcardo Theatre Museum is located inside the homonymous Palazzetto and is in typical Gothic style. Inside the museum, numerous and beautiful collections are exhibited showing sculptures, costumes, props and hundreds of paintings.

Museo della Via Ostiense

Rome (26 Km)

The Museum of the Via Ostiense was established in 1954 and is located in the Gate of San Paolo, in the ancient Aurelian Walls. It was created to illustrate the topography of the territory between Rome and Ostia, which in Roman times was marked by the Via Ostiense. At the museum we can observe three painted arcosoli, found on a tomb of the 3rd century AD, casts, funeral stones and remains of frescoes from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Museo di Roma

Rome (23 Km)

A collection of art since Middle Ages to the first half of the twentieth century: frescoes, mosaics, paintings, costumes and graphic works on the Roman Republic. With the opportunity to do themed trails. A unique testimony to be seen.

Museo del Presepio Tipologico Internazionale

Rome (24 Km)

The Nativity Scene Museum was founded in 1967, near the Church of SS Quirico and Giulitta in Rome. It was born as a museum thanks to donations from the collections of Angelo Stefanucci. The rooms of the museum have more than 3000 pieces from all Italian regions and antique pieces, such as a crib built with small shells of Sicily from the 17th century.

Museo di Mineralogia

Rome (23 Km)

The Museum of Mineralogy in Rome was established in 1804 by Pope Pius VII and is the oldest among all the museums of the University of Sapienza in Rome. Inside you can see more than thirty-four thousand specimens of minerals and special collections such as those of Lazio. In 2009, the Museum hosted the collection of giant crystals donated to Commendator Primo Rovis.

Museo Storico della Liberazione

Rome (25 Km)

The Historical Museum of Liberation was built in the environments of a Nazi police and prison command. It was established in 1957, as a public body with legal personality. In the museum, original documents, newspapers and leaflets related to the Nazi Fascist occupation are exhibited. The rooms were set up in memory of the inmates, bringing to public attention national and Roman dramatic moments lived in those years.

Museo Storico di Architettura Militare

Rome (20 Km)

The Historical Museum of Military Architecture in Rome exhibits objects belonging to the Count of Cavour and plastics and models that faithfully reproduce scenes of military action. There are also broadcasting media such as telegraph and radio. Finally, we find an exhibition of military architectural works starting from the prehistoric ones up to the construction of castles.

Mostra Permanente "Le Carrozze d'Epoca"

Rome (33 Km)

The Permanent Exhibition “The Vintage Carriages” is sponsored by the Public Bodies of Rome and owns a collection of over 160 pieces, of which many vintage carriages kept for over forty years with passion and a lot of care. Of great value can be seen, in a space of over 3,000 square meters, representation sedans, Landau and even the famous chariots of the films “Ben Hur “and “Gladiator”.

Galleria Spada

Rome (24 Km)

A private collection of Cardinal Bernardino Spada, which includes paintings, many of the XVII century, with works by Guercino, Baciccia, Orazio Gentileschi, Guido Reni. To be seen, the Perspective Gallery designed by Borromini.

Keats and Shelley Memorial House

Rome (22 Km)

The Keats and Shelley Memorial House was the home of the writer and romantic poet John Keats and is located next to one of the most fascinating and wonderful staircases in Rome, the Spanish Steps. This house is also a museum. It has a varied collection of manuscripts, paintings and sculptures from the first editions of Keats's works, but not only that. We can also find works by other exponents of English Romanticism such as Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

Musei Capitolini: Galleria Lapidaria

Rome (24 Km)

The Lapidaria Gallery is part of the Underground Conjunction Gallery built in the late 1930s, which connected the Capitoline palaces, under Piazza del Campidoglio to Rome. The gallery was inaugurated in 2005. Today it offers a vast collection of Capitoline epigraphic, as well as having a history of more than 1400 marble inscriptions of the Roman Age, which were exhibited in 1957 during the III International Congress of Epigraphy Greek and Latin.

Musei Vaticani: Museo Gregoriano Profano

Rome (22 Km)

The Gregorian Profane Museum was founded in 1844 by Gregory XVI Chapellari at the headquarters of the Apostolic Palace of the Lateran. Only in 1970 the ancient finds that composed it were transferred to the current headquarters of the Vatican Museums. The activity is to document different themes of classical art of ancient Greece up to the Imperial Roman Age. In fact, in the areas of the building we find several funerary stelas and fragments of Greek sculptures as well as altars and sarcophaguses of the Imperial Roman Age.

Musei Vaticani: Museo Pio Clementino di Scultura

Rome (22 Km)

The Pio Clementino Museum of Sculpture is so named by its founders Clement XIV Ganganelli and Pius VI Braschi as in the second half of the 18th century there was an increase in the papal collections due to excavations in the Roman territory and those who offered works to the popes. The Museum was rich in neoclassical sculptural works made under the direction of Giuseppe Camporese, but also many other artists. In 1797 the main masterpieces of the Museum were sold to France and, in 1815, Antonio Canova brought a large part of the works back to the main building.

Musei Vaticani: Museo Pio Cristiano

Rome (22 Km)

The Pius Christian Museum was founded in 1852 by Pope Pius IX and originally hosted ancient works exhibited at the Lateran Museum. Inside the Museum you can see finds that come from the 6th century onwards and, of particular beauty, we find the statue of the Good Shepherd, which was originally a high relief of a sarcophagus. The statue resumes a young man with a tunic above his knees who loads a lamb behind him.

Musei Vaticani: Padiglione delle Carrozze

Rome (22 Km)

The Carriage Pavilion was established in 1967 by Pope Paul VI and is part of the Historical Collections Department of the Vatican Museums. Inside you can see the wonderful Grand Gala Sedan, enriched in its decorations by Pope XVI and built in 1826 by Pope Leo XII.

Musei Vaticani: Pinacoteca

Rome (22 Km)

The Vatican Art Gallery was inaugurated and built by the architect Luca Beltrami on 27 October 1932, according to the directives of Pius XI. It is located in a part of the nineteenth-century Square Garden, considered suitable for ensuring the best lighting conditions. The idea of a Pinacoteca was born after the fall of Napoleon in 1817, with the following return to the State of the Church of the works he belongs to. Currently there are 460 paintings arranged in eighteen rooms with works from the twelfth century to the 19th century.

Musei Vaticani: Pontificio Museo Missionario Etnologico

Rome (22 Km)

The Pontifical Ethnological Missionary Museum was founded in 1926 by Pope Pius XI, at the closing of the Universal Missionary Exhibition. Inaugurated in the Palazzo del Laterano in 1927, only in 1973 it was set up in the current headquarters of the Vatican Museums. The Museum contains several works offered to the Popes by individuals and by the different Dioceses, works that are of valuable historical and cultural value. Note the collection of the Borgiano Museum and the collection of prehistoric finds of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem.

Museo 'D. Agostinelli'

Rome (37 Km)

The “D. Agostinelli” Museum was inaugurated in the 1960s, but was recognized to the Superintendence of Fine Arts only in 1992. Inside, we can admire a varied collection of over 600,000 objects collected during the period of Mr. Domenico Agostinelli. The collections are a testimony to the culture of man in various periods and in addition to these collections, we can find the finds from the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankamon and Mazzini's letters addressed to Garibaldi .

Museo Astronomico Copernicano

Rome (20 Km)

The Copernican Astronomical Museum was founded in 1873 for the celebrations of the fourth centenary of the birth of Copernicus. The Museum houses astronomical instruments of great importance such as sundials, astronomical dials and within it there are also sections related to the historical development of objects used for the observation. In addition, in the library we find an important text of ancient astronomy, namely the De revolutionibus orbium coelestium of Copernicus.

Museo Barracco

Rome (23 Km)

The Barracco Museum was built in 1523 by Thomas Le Roy, who was allowed to enrich with his own emblem, the lily of France and all the decoration of the building. In 1904, Baron Giovanni Barracco donated to the municipality of Rome some works of classical art and the Near East. Today we find several exhibitions divided into rooms, where we can admire a detail of the Hourglass of Ptolemy Philadelphia of Alexandria and Parade Chariot with two characters from Cyprus.

Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi per le Arti Decorative

Rome (22 Km)

The Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum for Decorative Arts was opened to the public in 1995. His story begins with the donation of Villino Boncompagni by Princess Blanceflor de Bildt Boncompagni to the State in 1972. Subsequently, the Villino was entrusted to the National Gallery of Modern Art and inside the Museum we can find a path that highlights the Italian society of the twentieth century with furniture, clothes, and Great value and beauty fashion accessories.

Museo Archeologico Ostiense

Rome (26 Km)

The Ostiense Archaeological Museum was built in 1865 by Pontiff Pius IX in what were previously the walls of a fifteenth-century building used for the storage of salt. Inside the museum we can find archaeological finds found during excavations and, moreover, we can observe a collection of portraits of stubborn characters such as the head of Trajan and the bust of Asclepius. There are also sculptures such as the statue of Perseus holding the head of Medusa and also the marble statue of Love and Psyche.

Galleria Doria

Rome (23 Km)

The Doria Gallery was founded in 1651 and is a private collection located in Palazzo Doria Pamphilj. In the gallery we can admire numerous works and goods such as furnishings, statues and paintings. The palace consists of four galleries which have the most precious works in the world and of medieval and Byzantine art.

Musei Capitolini

Rome (24 Km)

The Capitoline Museums were born in 1471, thanks to the donation, consisting of bronze statues, of Pope Sixtus IV to the Roman people. Most of the works come from the city of Rome. Worth seeing!

Museo di Castel Sant’Angelo

Rome (23 Km)

The Castel Sant’Angelo (Adrian Mole or ‘Castellum Crescentii “) is a Roman monument, built as a tomb for Emperor Hadrian in 123 AD C. Today it is converted into a museum with beautiful rooms and precious collections of paintings and artifacts.

Museo Fondazione Roma

Rome (23 Km)

The Museum Fondazione Roma, already Museo del Corso, was born in 1999. So far in this museum have been held over 30 exhibitions in collaboration with the most prestigious museums in the world. To be closer to art. Very interesting!

Musei Vaticani: Museo Gregoriano Etrusco

Rome (22 Km)

The Gregorian Etruscan Museum was founded in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and initially collected objects that were found in the excavations of the city of southern Etruria. Since 1870, with the advent of the end of the Papal State, the museum acquired important and wonderful archaeological collections such as the donations of Benedetto Guglielmi in 1935 and the purchase of the collection Falcioni in 1898. Inside the museum the story of the Etruscan people is told with materials from the 9th to the first century BC.