Free museums in Rome

Museo Napoleonico is a museum in Rome that holds and exhibits a collection that was donated in 1927 by Count Giuseppe Primoli, a descendant of Napoleon. The museum houses various portraits and objects, but also interiors from the Neapolitan era. The collections of the Museo Napoleonico are divided i

The Museo Storico della Liberazione is the Museum of the Liberation of Rome that occupies three floors in an apartment building where it illustrates the period of German occupation of Rome in World War II as well as its liberation. The building was used as the headquarters of the Sicherheitspolizei,

The Pietro Canonica Museum is the house museum of the sculptor Pietro Canonica. The house, where the artist lived until his death, was donated to the municipality of Rome which now manages the museum. The ground floor and the lower floors of the museum contain rooms that display the works, both copi

The Museo Barracco, or Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco, is a museum in Rome that was established after Baron Giovanni Barracco donated his collection of antique sculptures to the museum in 1902. the museum was originally located in the baron's house. The museum's collection consists of ar

MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea is the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome that holds and exhibits a collection of contemporary art with about 1,200 works of art from 1960 to the present. It includes some of the most significant expressions of the Italian art scene since the 1960s, among others th

Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen is a museum in Rome in Italy, the place where Hendrik Christian Andersen died in 1940. After his death, he donated his home, studio, papers and more than 400 pieces of his work so this museum could be created. The Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum in Rome contains mu

The Porta San Sebastiano (the ancient Porta Appia) is the largest and one of the best-preserved gate that passes through the Aurelian wall in Rome. Directly behind the gate stands the Arch of Drusus, which belonged to the aqueduct Aqua Marcia. The large gate was rebuilt five times. Nowadays, the tow

The Historical Museum of the Carabinieri (Museo Storico dell'Arma dei Carabinieri) is a museum in Rome near the Vatican. This Police Museum in Rome illustrates its history chronologically and thematically, starting from the foundation in 1814 of the ancient Corps of Royal Carabinieri, through to the

The Carlo Bilotti Museum is a museum of contemporary art in Rome. It is based in the "Aranciera" of Villa Borghese and houses paintings, sculptures and watercolors from the collection donated by the Italian-American entrepreneur and collector Carlo Bilotti, which includes works by Giorgio De Chirico

The Museo della Civiltà Romana is a large museum in Rome that features one of the most wholesome collections of artefacts and artworks devoted to the history of Roman civilisation. It was first opened in 1955 and today spans over more than 12 000 square meters. The items on display here are divided

The Boncompagni Ludovisi Decorative Arts Museum, also just Museo Boncompagni, is the Decorative Arts Museum of the National Gallery of Modern Art of Rome. The museum is housed in the Villino Boncompagni, an Art Nouveau villa from the twentieth century. The museum focuses on talian decorative arts, c

Museo della Via Ostiense is a museum in Rome, housed in the former Porta San Paolo city gate. The museum was built in 1954 to illustrate the topography of the area between Rome and Ostia. Important finds related to the ancient Via Ostiense connecting route between Rome and Ostia and a model depictin

The Casa di Goethe is a museum and cultural center in Rome dedicated to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his Italian journey. With the permanent exhibition 'Goethe in Italy' and two to four temporary exhibitions per year, this Goethe museum in Rome recalls Goethe's Italian experience and the tradition

The Museum of Casal de 'Pazzi is a museum that focuses on archaeological, geological and paleontological related objects. The museum covers part of a Pleistocene deposit of fluvial origin. The deposit extended over an area of ​​about 1200 m² and consisted of sand and gravel, mostly volcanic. The dep

The Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio is a neogothic church in Rome. Within its sacristy hides a museum: The Museum of the Souls in Purgatory (Museo delle Anime del Purgatorio). Inside, you can find exhibitions of various objects and artworks that are supposed to prove the existence of a Christia

The Museo dell'Arte Classica (Museo dei Gessi della Sapienza) is a museum in Rome that was founded by Emanuel Löwy. The Museum has a collection of about twelve hundred plaster casts, which mostly reproduce existing Greek sculptures in museums and collections from all over the world; the exhibition i

The Parco Museo Ferroviario (Parco Museo Ferroviario Met.Ro) is a railway museum in Rome that holds numerous vehicles of the predecessor companies that made up the ATAC. It is located in the Roma Porta San Paolo train station on the Roma Porta San Paolo-Cristoforo Colombo railway line to Lido di Ost

The Historical Museum of the Grenadiers of Sardinia (Museo Dei Granatieri Di Sardegna) is a museum in Rome that is divided into 15 rooms containing weapons of various origins, both Italian and foreign, as well as photographic material relating to the Great War, the reasons for the awarding of gold m

The Museo delle Antichità Etrusche e Italiche is a museum in Rome that reconstructs the ancient Italic populations through casts, models and graphics. The museum is divided into two sections. The first being the Gorga collection with Etruscan and Italic ceramics dating back to a period between the A

Museo di Fisica is a Museum of physics in Rome that organizes various scientific and technological exhibitions. The items on display in the museum are divided into 7 thematic sections, each of them focusing on different aspect of physics. These range from acoustics to pumps. The highlights of the ex

The Museo Internazionale Del Presepio (the International typological museum of the "Angelo Stefanucci" nativity scene) is a museum in Rome located in the basement of the church of saints Quirico and Giulitta. The museum holds and exhibits a collection of nativity scenes from all over the world, crea

MAAM - Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove di Metropoliz (The Museum of the Other and the Elsewhere) is the third museum of contemporary art in Rome, where artists are invited to give their contribution for free, interacting with the space and with the inhabitants. The Metropoliz facilitates the relatio

The Museo Numismatico Della Zecca is the Museum of the Italian Mint of the l'Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (the State Printing and Mint Institute). The museum holds a collection of about 20,000 coins, medals and wax pieces, not only Italian, but also foreign divided into papal medals (191

The Museo Parigino is a museum in Rome that was founded by Cesare Nissirio, president of the Athena Parthenos Association, with the aim of collecting materials related to Parisian culture between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The museum is in a way related to the