Museums of Rome

The Museums of Rome can satisfy all tastes. Antiquity is of course particularly well represented, with the largest collection in the world (National Roman Museum, Capitoline Museums, Vatican Museums, Montemartini Central, Etruscan Museum, etc).
Modern art has several seats including the GNAM (National Gallery of Modern Art) and the Communal Museum of Modern Art.
The Renaissance, baroque and modern, with their sculptures and paintings enrich many museums (Vatican and Capitoline Museums) and many galleries (Borghese Gallery, Pamphilj Gallery, etc)

Museums in Rome

The various museums to discover in Rome and private galleries, including collections of antiques, thematic, modern and contemporary. The four museums described in the Great Museums of Rome page can fill many days, especially if they are cold or rainy.

Museums of antiquities in Rome

Photo of the Capitoline she-wolf, Capitoline museums

Most of the great Roman museums are multi-disciplinary, with collections from various eras, from antiquity to the Renaissance and Baroque for example. These have collections of ancient works and archaeological artifacts, these are the Capitoline Museums, then the Vatican Museums, and the Borghese Gallery to a lesser extent.
A number of other museums are mainly devoted to antiquity ...

Great Museums in Rome

Chapelle Sixtine - Musées du Vatican Interested in archaeology, modern art, painting and sculpture from all eras, you will find easily enough to satisfy your curiosity in Rome, where the choice and quality of the works of art abound. The main museums are those of the Vatican, the Capitoline Museums, the Gallery Borghese and the National Roman Museum.

Capitoline Museums

Bernini's Medusa The Capitoline Museums that occupy the Palace of the homonymous square house a unique collection of Greek and Roman antiquities and an art gallery exhibiting paintings of masters.

Vatican Museums

Court of the Pigna, Vatican Museums Besides that there is the famous Sistine Chapel and Raphael's Rooms, the collections of the Vatican Museums are among the largest in the world. These Papal Palace retain many works, sculptures, frescoes, mosaics, objects dating from ancient Egypt to modern times.

National Roman Museum

House of Livia - Casa di Livia Home to the largest archaeological collection in the world, the National Roman Museum is distributed over four sites, the largest of which is the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.

Gallery Borghese

photo of Saint Jerome Writing (Caravaggio) The Borghese Gallery houses a famous collection mainly inherited from the Borghese family, initiated in the early seventeenth century. The most famous works are the baroque sculptures and Renaissance paintings, including Caravaggio and Titian, its neo-classical and ancient sculptures.