Archaeological museums
- Musei Capitolini
- Centrale Montemartini
- Mercati e Foro di Traiano
- Museo dell'Ara Pacis
- Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco
- Museo della Civiltà Romana
- Museo delle Mura
- Museo di Casal de' Pazzi
- Villa di Massenzio
Modern art museums
- Museo della Repubblica Romana e della memoria garibaldina
- Museo di Roma
- Museo Napoleonico
- Casa Museo Alberto Moravia
- Galleria d'Arte Moderna
Contemporary art museums
- MACRO
- Museo Carlo Bilotti
- Museo Pietro Canonica
- Museo di Roma in Trastevere
- Musei di Villa Torlonia
Science museums
- Planetario e Museo Astronomico
- Museo Civico di Zoologia
The creation of the Capitoline Museums has been traced back to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV donated a group of bronze statues of great symbolic value to the People of Rome.
The collections are closely linked to the city of Rome, and most of the exhibits come from the city itself.
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The Capitoline Hill is the smallest hill in Rome and was originally made up of two parts (the Capitolium and the Arx) separated by a deep valley which corresponds to where Piazza del Campidoglio now stands about 8 metres above the original site.
The sides of this hill were very steep and on account of the difficulty of reaching the top and the dominating position it enjoyed over the River Tiber, it was chosen as the city's main stronghold.
The hall was built in an open area that historically marked the boundary between the properties of the Conservators and the Caffarellis. In the same space, which was used to exhibit the many sculptures found in the excavations following the urbanization of new areas after the proclamation of Rome as the Capital of Italy, an octagonal pavilion, designed by Virgilio Vespignani, was built in 1876, later it was disassembled to make space for a garden.
Capitoline Museums and Samsung: technology for museum communication
More in-depth news on the most important sculptures exhibited in the museum and on the paintings in the Pinacoteca Capitolina (Capitoline Picture Gallery) can be accessed on all smartphones equipped with NFC (Near Field Communication) technology.
The Virtual Tour of the Capitoline Museums – a Zètema Progetto Cultura production developed by HQuadro using the immersive virtual reality technology – is fully interactive and multimedia, and employs sophisticated processing techniques and photo-montage. Take a virtual walk into the halls of the museum. Use your mouse for a 360-degree view, up and down and zoom in to see works of art in detail: sculptures, paintings, architectural details, facings, ceilings and floors.
In exposition there are some rare archive documents, paintings, engravings, sculptures and inhedits archeological finds to narrate the urbanistc transformations of the Capitol.
Visite tattili, con uso di guanti e sussidi didattici appositamente realizzati, per persone non vedenti o ipovedenti al percorso mostra “Campidoglio.Mito memoria archeologia”
Laboratorio creativo di modellazione della terracotta ispirato alle suggestioni suscitate dalla sezione sulla decorazione arcaica del Tempio di Giove, nella Mostra “Campidoglio. Mito memoria archeologia” a cura di Manuela Traini in collaborazione con Edelweiss Molina, docenti dell’Accademia di Belle Arti
Visita guidata alla mostra “Campidoglio. Mito memoria archeologia” e lezione spettacolo (drammaturgia e recitazione a cura di Antonietta Bello, Teatro di Roma)