Museums of Rome, lets go for a walk....

National Roman Museum - Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.

If you are interested in Ancient Rome you must visit it.  There are the most beautiful paintings, like Garden Painting from Livia’s Villa at Prima Porta (1st cent. B.C) or The Frescoes from the Villa of the Farnesina , celebrated masterpieces of statuary, like the Lancellotti Discobolus (Discus Thrower), the Maiden of Antium and the Hermaphroditus Asleep, as well as magnificent bronze Boxer at Rest  (4 th-2nd cent. B.C) and Bronze Dyonisus.

The Museum's numismatic collections, showing the evolution of currency in Italy. The exhibit illustrates the story of money, from its origins to its function in modern times, describing the complicated social, political and economic aspects of coinage. Adjoining the large hall dedicated to the coin collections are display cases containing pieces of jewellery discovered in ancient burial grounds in Rome and its suburbs, which illustrate the history and evolution of fashion and costume in the Roman Empire. Most of the coins on display in the collections are very rare. You may see the coins that used romans at Roman Empire, as well as those used by Michelangelo and Raphael.  It is worth mentioning Theodoric’s medallion, the four ducats of Pope Paul II with the navicella of St Peter, and the silver piastre of the Pontifical State with views of the city of Rome.

One room is also devoted to the mummy that was found in 1964 on the Via Cassia, inside a richly decorated sarcophagus with several artefacts in amber and pieces of jewellery also on display.

This museum is situated just next to the central railway station Termini. Largo di Villa Peretti (piazza dei Cinquecento).

Opening hours:

Open every day from 9.00 to 19.45.

Closed Mondays (except Easter Monday and during the "Week of Culture"), 1 January, 25 December.

The ticket office closes one hour before closing time.

Tickets:

Single ticket valid for 3 days at 4 sites (Palazzo Massimo, Palazzo Altemps, Crypta Balbi, Baths of Diocletian)

Full price: € 7.00

Reduced: € 3.50 for European Union citizens ages 18 to 24 and for European Union teachers.

Free: European Union citizens 17 and under and 65 and over

Let's go for a walk with me, your private guide, Tatiana
tatismek@tiscali.it
+39 3484954363  (Viber Tatiana Smortchek)