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Museo Nazionale Romano

The National Museum of Rome (Museo Nazionale Romano in Italian) is a set of museums in Rome, Italy, split between various branches across the city. It was founded in 1889 and inaugurated in 1890, during the Risorgimento, with the aim of collecting antiquities from between the 5th century BC to the 3rd century AD. Image File history File links Commons-logo. ... Wikimedia Commons logo by Reid Beels The Wikimedia Commons (also called Commons or Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ... This article is about the capital of Italy. ... 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... Italian unification, also known as Risorgimento (resurrection), was a historical process by which the Kingdom of Sardinia (ruled by the Savoy dynasty with Turin as its capital) gradually conquered the Italian peninsula, including the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the Duchy of Modena, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Duchy... (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 5th century BC started on January 1, 500 BC and ended on December 31, 401 BC. // Overview The Parthenon of Athens seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west. ... (2nd century - 3rd century - 4th century _ other centuries) Events The Sassanid dynasty of Persia launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east. ...

Its first collection was formed from the archeological collections of the Museo Kircheriano and the numerous new discoveries in Rome during the city-planning after it became the new capital of the new Kingdom of Italy. This was initially meant to be displayed in a 'Museo Tiberino' (never realised), but in 1901 the State granted the institution the Villa Ludovisi and the important national collection of ancient sculptures. 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

Its base was established in the 16th centurycloister built by Michelangelo off the baths of Diocletian, still its main base. These buildings' adaptation to their new purpose began for the 1911 Exposition and completed in the 1930s. (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... Chalk portrait of Michelangelo by Daniele da Volterra Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet. ... Categories: Buildings and structures stubs | Ancient Roman architecture ...

In 1990s, in a radical transformation, the museum's collections were divided between four different sites.

Crypta Balbi

Inaugurated in the Campus Martius in 2001, it houses archaeological remains the ancient Roman quadriporticus of the Theatre of Lucius Cornelius Balbus (minor) (including an impressive reconstruction of a stucco arch) and later remains built over it. The first section (" Archeology and history of an urban landscape") presents the results of the archeological excavations conducted on the site from 1981, including the theatre and the nearby statio annonae. A second section (" Rome from antiquity to the middle ages.") is the Museum of Medieval Rome and illustrates the life and transformations of Rome as a whole between the 5th and 10th centuries AD. The Campus Martius, or Field of Mars, was a publicly owned area of ancient Rome about 2 km² (600 acres) in extent. ... Lucius Cornelius Balbus (called Minor to distinguish from his uncle), received the Roman citizenship at the same time as his uncle. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A simplified plan of the city of Rome from the 15th-century illuminated manuscript Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. ...

Palazzo Altemps

Built in the 15th century by the Riario family and rebuilt by the architect Martino Longhi for the cardinal Marco Sittico Altemps in the 16th century, it was granted by the State to the musueum in 1982 and inaugurated in 1997. It houses the museum's displays on the history of collecting (sculptures from Renaissance collections such as the Boncompagni-Ludovisi and Mattei collections, including the Ludovisi Ares and the Suicide of a Gaul, from the same Pergamon group as the Dying Gaul) and the 'Egyptian Collection (sculptures of eastern deities). The palace also includes also the historic private theatre, at present used to house temporary exhibitions, and the church of Sant' Aniceto. Riario was the name of three famous nephews of Francesco della Rovere, who reigned as Pope Sixtus IV. Girolamo Riario (Savona 1443 - Forlí 1488), Lord of Imola and Forlì; The Pazzi conspiracy in Florence, 1478, had him as intended beneficiary, once Lorenzo and Giuliano de Medici had been assassinated. ... Logo of the rione Ludovisi is the XVI rione of Rome. ... This article needs cleanup. ... The Ludovisi Ares The Ludovisi Ares is a Roman marble sculpture of Mars, a fine copy of a late 4th-century BCE Greek original, associated with Scopas or Lysippus: thus the Roman god of war receives his Greek name, Ares. ... The Kingdom of Pergamon (colored olive) shown at its greatest extent in 188 BC. Pergamon or Pergamum (Greek: Πέργαμος, modern day Bergama in Turkey, ) was an ancient Greek city, in Mysia, northwestern Anatolia, 16 miles from the Aegean Sea, located on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus... The Dying Gaul The Dying Gaul is an ancient Roman marble copy of a lost ancient Greek statue, thought to have been executed in bronze, that was commissioned some time between 230 BC-220 BC by Attalos I of Pergamon to honor his victory over the Galatians. ...

Palazzo Massimo

Built between 1883 and 1887 by the architect Camillo Pistrucci to house a Jesuit seminary, it was granted to the museum by the state in 1981, restored, inaugurated as part of the museum in 1995 and completed in 1998. It accommodates the sculpture (republican, empire and late empire) and coin/jewelry collections. 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ...

Baths of Diocletian

Cloister of Michelangelo

Within it, a Sixteenth century Garden and outdoor displays of altars and funerary sculpture and inscriptions.

Main hall of the baths

Still preserved, and used mainly for temporary exhibitions whilst a permanent exhibition of finds from some some important urban excavations is in preparation.

"Aula of Saint Isidore"

Former chapel Saint Isidore of Seville (560 - April 4, 636) was Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and has the reputation of being one of the great scholars of the early middle ages. ...

Prehistory section

On the first floor

Epigraphic Section

Octagonal Aula

Restored in 1991. Devoted to sculptures found on baths sites in Rome.

External links

• Roma 2000 information
• Soprintendenza Archaeologica di Roma information (in Italian)