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Museums and Art Galleries
- Villa Borghese
- Museo Etrusco di Villa Giulia
- Palazzo Barberini
- Galleria Spada
- Galleria Colonna
- Galleria Doria Pamphilj
- Centrale Montemartini
- Musei Capitolini
Villa Borghese
Many are Rome's art museums but the one that you cannot miss is the Borghese Gallery. We will take care of the compulsory reservation and will guide you through the richest and most enchanting private collection of art in Europe if not in the whole world.
Admire the sculptural masterpieces by Bernini and Canova and the paintings by Caravaggio, Raphael, Titian, perfectly matching the ancient statues in the museum.
Tour length: 3 hours
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Museo Etrusco di Villa Giulia
The museum is hosted in the Renaissance villa of the Pope Julius the III, built between 1550 and 1555. The most important architects of the time collaborated to the project. From 1889 it became the seat of the most important museum in the world regarding Etruscan art.
We can visit and admire the Bronze statues of Vulci, the Apollo of Veio, the sarcophagus of the "wed couple", the funerary objects of the Barberini and Bernabei tombs of Palestrina, the golden bars of Pyrgi with inscriptions in Etruscan and Phoenician languages. For those who are interested in Etruscan art it is a must-see.
Tour length: 3 hours
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Palazzo Barberini
The collection is hosted in the Barberini Palace, built by the Pope Urbanus the VIII in 1625. Among the architects that worked at the project Maderno, Bernini and Borromini. The art Gallery was established in 1895 but never displayed, until 1949 when the palace was bought by the State.
From 1984 the exhibit has been rearranged hosting also other works of art obtained by the State on the antiquities markets and donations. In the collection we have significant pieces of Italian paintings such as "Fornarina" of Rapahel, "Giuditta and Oloferne" and "Narciso" of Caravaggio.
Tour length: 3 hours
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Galleria Spada
Not far from the Farnese Palace, we have the Spada Palace, example of noble palace of the XV century where at the ground floor we can admire the prospect gallery of Borromini.
On the first floor instead there is the collection of the Spada family with paintings of the 1600 of Guercino, Reni, Carracci, Domenichino and a fantastic Titian.
Tour length: 3 hours
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Galleria Colonna
The gallery was founded by the Cardinal Girolamo Colonna and made in between 1654 and 1655.
The works of art hosted date back from the XIV to the XVIII century.
Among them Carracci, Lotto, Titian, Guercino. Important is the big saloon with the amazing prospect.
Upon request it is possible to visit the apartment of the 1400 of the Princess Isabel.
Tour length: 3 hours
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Galleria Doria Pamphilj
The Galleria Doria Pamphilij is among the most interesting private collections in Rome.
It is hosted in the noble residence of the family. The collection started by Camillo Pamphilj, nephew of Innocentius the X, in 1644. After he became cardinal he refused the position in order to marry Olimpia Aldobrandini. She brought as a dowry precious paintings of the 1500 of the Venetian area with pieces of Titian, Raphael and Lotto.
In the 1763 the family not having male heirs joined the family of the Doria. Which is the main reason for the rearrangement of the exhibition.
Tour length: 3 hours
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Centrale Montemartini
Interesting example of an exhibition space in the urban context, such as the one of industrial archeology, because it is using the rooms of an old electric station as an exhibition space for a series of works of art of the Capitoline collection that otherwise would not be displayed.
Tour length: 3 hours
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Musei Capitolini
It is the first Public museum in the world. It was established in 1471 thanks to the donation of Sistus the IV of 4 bronze statues to the people of Rome. Among them the "Capitoline She-wolf". For sure the most interesting museum from the sculpting point of view. Among the pieces the Venus, The Capitoline Brutus, The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, the Capitoline Gaul.
Completely refurbished the Capitoline museums offer lots of interesting elements, not only antiquities, but the painting gallery, the spectacular view of the city from the Caffarelli Terrace, along with a relaxing break at the bar, and the breathtaking view of the Roman Forum from the Tabularium. A splendid mix of modern and ancient history it is in the Conservatori Palace where the Treaty of Rome was signed: the beginning of European Union.
Tour length: 3 hours
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