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It will be possible to visit the permanent collections, current exhibitions and multimedia exhibition projects in all the civic museums of the capital.

Sunday 3 July free admission to the civic museums of Rome and archaeological sites. The initiative is promoted by Roma Culture, the Capitoline Superintendence for Cultural Heritage. Free admission compatibly with the capacity of the sites. Reservations required only for groups al contact center of Roma Capitale 060608 (9.00 - 19.00).

The Archaeological Areas

Residents and will not be able to visit for free the archaeological areas of the Circus Maximus, from 9.30 to 19.00 last admission at 18.00, and of the Imperial Fora (entrance from Trajan's Column 09.00 - 19 last admission one hour before). Access to the Super sites (integrated visit of the archaeological areas of the Imperial Forums, the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill) starting at 15 and up to one hour before closing.

Museums

Sunday 3 July open to all visitors: Capitoline Museums; Trajan's Markets - Museum of the Imperial Forums; Ara Pacis Museum; Montemartini power plant; Museum of Rome; Museum of Rome in Trastevere; Gallery of Modern Art; Museums of Villa Torlonia; Civic Museum of Zoology; Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture; Carlo Bilotti Museum - Villa Borghese Orangery; Napoleonic Museum; Pietro Canonica Museum in Villa Borghese; Museum of the Roman Republic and Garibaldi memory; Casal de 'Pazzi Museum; Museum of the Walls; Serra Moresca of Villa Torlonia; Villa of Maxentius.

The Exhibitions

It will be 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 journey, revealing the essence of the political life of ancient Rome. Furthermore, in two rooms of Palazzo Clementino it is possible to visit 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 (www.museicapitolini.org).

Capitoline Museums - entrance

The group exhibition Let's go ahead with the original and unpublished works of important comic and illustration authors who have made their creativity available to EMERGENCY to collect the precious legacy left by Gino Strada and transmit a culture of rights and peace (www.museodiroma.it).

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 (www.mercatiditraiano.it).

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. At the Centrale Montemartini, the Colors of the Romans exhibition was further extended. 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 (www.museonapoleonico.it and www.centralemontemartini.org).

Capitoline Museums-statue

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-XNUMXs, 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 (www.museodiromaintrastevere.it).

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 exhibition Il video makes happy, on video art in Italy (www.galleriaartemodernaroma.it). At the Casino dei Principi of Villa Torlonia, the exhibition Francesco Messina. Novecento Contemporanea presents a rich selection of bronzes, terracottas and plasters which confirms the vital relevance of the master's art between tradition and modernity. While in the nearby Casina delle Civette it is worth seeing Biodiversity in Rome, an unpublished tale of the fauna and flora that live in the capital www.museivillatorlonia.it.

Capitoline Museums-exhibition

At the Carlo Bilotti Museum of Villa Borghese in Cosmogony there are the works of Daniela Monaci and the poetry of Sonia Gentili transformed into visual works by the Collective "The man who does not look" while at the Museum of the Walls the exhibition COMPOSITIO OPPOSITORUM, by Antonio Taschini and Andrea Meneghetti, focuses on the double path of the meeting of iron and clay, two apparently antithetical materials chosen as material in the research of the two artists in a continuous dialogue.

An exception to the free offer is the current exhibition at the Ara Pacis Museum, curated by Gabriel Bauret, dedicated to Robert Doisneau, 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 XNUMXs to the end of the XNUMXs (www.arapacis.it).
Entrance with a reduced ticket is allowed to holders of the MIC Card.

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In Rome, Sunday 3 July, free entry to the Capitoline Museums last edit: 2022-07-03T09:00:00+02:00 da Staff

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