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Museums of Lazio

Visititaly recommends the complete list of museums to visit in Lazio, the most important attractions for spending a day with friends and family. The museum circuit of the Lazio region is widely distributed throughout the territory, in fact one municipality out of three hosts a museum structure. Visiting a museum is an effective learning method, used effectively both by schools to improve their educational offer and by tourists wishing to learn about the history and culture of the region. Discover the galleries, art galleries, permanent exhibitions, collections and collections, plaster casts, foundations and all the places linked to culture that characterize the Lazio region and its territory. If you have visited a museum and would like to share your experience with others, please report ithere!

Orte - Museums

Museo d'Arte Sacra di Orte d'importanza diocesana

The Museum of Sacred Art of Orte of Diocesan Importance, inaugurated in 1967, as well as being the first diocesan museum built in Lazio, has the merit of being housed in the oldest container of the town: the church of San Silvestro, from the middle of the eleventh century. To the exhibition spaces of the original venue, a section has recently been added to the exhibition spaces set up in the nearby Palazzo Vescovile. The two sections of the museum differ in the chronology of the works on display: in New Year's Eve, those relating to the VIIII-XVI centuries prevail, in the Episcopal Palace there are instead canvases from the 16th century to the 20th century

Formia - Museums

Museo Archeologico Nazionale

The National Archaeological Museum of Formia is located in the elegant historic center of the village. It houses statues and archaeological finds for a long time exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Naples. The main hall of the Museum shows the visitor a composition of amphorae and remains of shells from ancient age. In the same room there are statues dating from the first to the second century AD depicting the virility of the heroes, while in the second room, two acephalous female statues are observed.

Cervaro - Museums

Museo Demoantropologico con Sez. di Arte Orafa

The museum contains rare gold objects from ancient times and documents the importance of the territory in the treatment of gold. At the beginning of the twentieth century there were almost thirty shops working this material, the citizens were all connoisseurs regarding this field. Inside the gallery we find different materials and machinery that help to work gold. Here you can also find jewels created in Cervaro between the end of the seventeenth century and the twentieth century.

Rome - Museums

Galleria Colonna

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.

Rome - Museums

Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea

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.

Rome - Museums

Galleria Doria Pamphilj

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.

Rome - Museums

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna

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.

Rome - Museums

Museo Civico di Zoologia

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.

Rome - Museums

Museo della Casina delle Civette

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.

Rome - Museums

Museo di Chimica

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.

Rome - Museums

Museo della Civiltà Romana

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.

Rome - Museums

Museo di Antichità Etrusche e Italiche

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.

Rome - Museums

Musei Vaticani Collezione d'arte religiosa Moderna

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”.

Rome - Museums

Musei Vaticani: Cappella Sistina

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.

Rome - Museums

Musei Vaticani: Gallerie dei Candelabri, Arazzi e Carte Geografiche

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.

Rome - Museums

Musei Vaticani: Museo Chiaramonti

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.

Rome - Museums

Museo "Hendrik Christian Andersen"

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.

Rome - Museums

Museo Centrale del Risorgimento

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.

Rome - Museums

Antiquarium Forense

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.

Atina - Museums

Museo Civico

The Archaeological Museum of Atina is one of the most important civic museums in the area. The latter was officially known in 1978 and was born to collect and show the public the archaeological findings. The museum is divided into five rooms (A, B, C, D, E). Inside the museum, in addition to a large collection of archaeological objects from the Comino valley, we also find the prehistoric finds of Samnite and Roman. It is currently open to all interested in history and art.

Bracciano - Museums

Museo Civico di Bracciano

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.

Rome - Museums

Keats and Shelley Memorial House

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.

Rome - Museums

Musei Capitolini: Galleria Lapidaria

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.

Rome - Museums

Musei Vaticani: Museo Gregoriano Profano

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.

Rome - Museums

Musei Vaticani: Museo Pio Clementino di Scultura

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.
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