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The Vatican Museums boast many artistic glories, but the highlight is the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. Painted by Michelangelo between 1512 and 1549, the frescoes represent the apogee of…
The Pasta Museum in Rome is the only museum in the world to be entirely devoted to this frugal yet endlessly variable Italian foodstuff.
The Galleria Borghese, housed in an elegant marble villa in the Villa Borghese park, contains masterpieces collected by the powerful nephew of Pope Paul V, Cardinal Scipione. Paintings and…
The Vatican Museums, in the Vatican City, make up the world's largest museum complex. Over 1,000 rooms are filled with a bewildering array of masterpieces commissioned or collected by…
The Catacombs of San Callisto are in south-east Rome on the Via Appia Antica. Six popes are buried in this maze of tunnels, which extends 20km and dates back to 2AD. Both frescoes and ancient…
National Gallery of Modern Art
Housed in a palazzo in the Villa Borghese park, the National Gallery of Modern Art, contains 19th- and 20th-century works by artists such as Monet, Cezanne and the Macchiaioli - the Italian…
The Museo Civico di Zoologia is Rome's zoology museum, featuring an outstanding collection of roughly four million specimens. It also stages regular exhibitions on subjects such as ecology and…
In Rome's Eur quarter, the Roman Civilisation Museum simulates life in ancient Rome. Through large-scale reproductions and models, from Roman gardens to everyday objects and temples, it…
Keats-Shelley House, beside the Spanish Steps, is where Romantic poet John Keats died, aged 25. Now a literary museum, its Victorian interiors are filled with manuscripts and memorabilia -…
Home to some of the most important archaeological collections in the world, the Roman National Museum has four different sites, each one featuring different temporary and permanent exhibitions.
