all scheduled exhibitions
Sunday 5th June free admission to the Civic Museums returns for all visitors, residents and non-residents of Rome. Free admission also to the archaeological areas of the Circus Maximus, from 9.30am to 7pm (last entrance at 6pm) and the Imperial Forums (entrance from Trajan’s Column 9am – 7.15pm (last entrance one hour earlier). integrated visit of the archaeological areas of the Imperial Forums, the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill) starting at 09.30 and up to one hour before closing.
Free admission compatibly with the capacity of the sites. Reservations required for groups only at the Roma Capitale contact center 060608 (9 am – 7 pm).
Free admission also to the Mausoleum of Augustus, from 9 to 19 (last admission at 18), with reservations required.
The Civic Museums open to visitors
Capitoline Museums, Trajan’s Markets – Museum of the Imperial Fora, the Ara Pacis Museum, the Centrale Montemartini, the Museum of Rome, the Museum of Rome in Trastevere, the Gallery of Modern Art, the Museums of Villa Torlonia, the Civic Museum of Zoology, the Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture, the Carlo Bilotti Museum – Orangery of Villa Borghese, the Napoleonic Museum, the Pietro Canonica Museum in Villa Borghese, the Museum of the Roman Republic and Garibaldi memory, the Casal de ‘Pazzi, the Museum of the Walls, the Moorish Greenhouse of Villa Torlonia and the Villa of Maxentius.
It is possible to visit the permanent collections, current exhibitions and multimedia exhibition projects, starting from the Capitoline Museums with The legacy of Caesar and the conquest of time, in the Sala della Lupa e dei Fasti antico in Palazzo dei Conservatori, which tells the story of Rome from its origins to the dawn of the imperial age. In the rooms on the ground floor of Palazzo dei Conservatori, the exhibition Cursus honorum is in progress. The government of Rome before Caesar, in which the magistracies of the republican age are recalled through a multimedia path, revealing the essence of the political life of ancient Rome. Furthermore, in the planned sale of Palazzo Clementino it is possible to admire I Colori dell’Antico. Marmi Santarelli at the Capitoline Museums, a precious selection of over 660 polychrome marbles from the imperial age from the Capitoline collection and the Dino and Ernesta Santarelli Foundation.
Last day to visit the Segni exhibition, at the Museum of Rome, a pedagogical, photographic and communication project to testify and prevent violence against women.
At the Mercati di Traiano with 1932, the elephant and the lost hill, the history of Velia is illustrated in its stratifications and occupations over time until its excavation, implemented in 1932 as part of the urban redesign of the area for the construction of via dell ‘Impero, now via dei Fori Imperiali.
The Napoleon exhibition continues at the Napoleonic Museum. Last act, which illustrates the events of the exile, the death and the subsequent process of mythologizing the French emperor. And, at the Centrale Montemartini, Colors of the Romans. The mosaics from the Capitoline collections with the addition of six other splendid mosaics to the wide selection of masterpieces. Also on display is the mosaic of the Real Casa, a restored floor mosaic from the late imperial era.
Several photographic exhibitions to visit at the Museum of Rome in Trastevere: Interesting years, an intense journey in fifteen years of national history, between 1960 and the mid-1970s, which indelibly marked the face and identity of the country. Arctic Tales, which offers two photographic reportages by Valentina Tamborra and a cycle of events dedicated to the discovery of the Arctic, from an anthropological, cultural and social point of view. Finally, The animated cloister – Space is only noise, a project by the artists Michela de Mattei, the musical group Salò, Bea Bonafini and Emiliano Maggi, who animate the external cloister of the Museum thanks to their sound systems.
The Gallery of Modern Art offers, in addition to the site specific intervention Sten Lex. Rebirth created by the couple of artists in the cloister-garden of the museum, the exhibitions Il video makes happy, on video art in Italy, and Pharmakon. Episode 1, on the new artistic generations who express themselves through audio, video and photography installations.
At the Casino dei Principi of Villa Torlonia, the exhibition Francesco Messina. Novecento Contemporanea presents a rich selection of bronzes, terracottas and plasters depicting the current vitality of the master’s art between tradition and modernity.
An exception to the free admission is the retrospective, curated by Gabriel Bauret, dedicated to Robert Doisneau, at the Ara Pacis Museum, one of the founding fathers of French humanist photography and street photojournalism. About 130 black and white shots, from the collection of the Atelier Robert Doisneau in Montrouge, illustrate the daily life and emotions of the men and women who populated Paris and its suburbs, in the period from the beginning of the 1930s to the end of the fifties. Entrance with a reduced ticket is allowed to holders of the MIC Card.
The initiative is promoted by Roma Cultura, the Capitoline Superintendence for Cultural Heritage. All information and updates can be followed on www.museiincomuneroma.it and culture.roma.it and on the social channels of Roma Culture, the Museums System and the Capitoline Superintendence for Cultural Heritage.