Spread over several buildings, including Palazzo Massimo, Palazzo Altemps, the Crypta Balbi, and the Diocletian Baths, the Roman National Museum preserves the world’s greatest collection of Greco-Roman art. Your combo ticket is valid for three days and gives you access to all connected museums.
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Spread over several buildings, including Palazzo Massimo, Palazzo Altemps, the Crypta Balbi, and the Diocletian Baths, the Roman National Museum preserves the world’s greatest collection of Greco-Roman art. Your combo ticket is valid for three days and gives you access to all connected museums.
Ticket valid for 3 days for Palazzo Massimo, Palazzo Altemps, Crypta Balbi and Terme di Diocleziano.
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Opening hours: from 9 am to 7:45 pm (December 24 and 31 from 9 am to 5 pm). Closed Monday (except Easter Monday and during the Cultural Heritage Week), January 1, May 1, December 25. Ticket office closes one hour before Museum closing time
Audioguides available (except Crypta Balbi) in English and Italian; duration 1 hour an 10 minutes.
Cancellation Policy:
For cancellations once a confirmation code has been assigned to the reservation, and for no shows, we can refund cost of unused tickets minus service fee (reservation fee and online booking fee).
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Intro
Spread over several buildings, including Palazzo Massimo, Palazzo Altemps, the Crypta Balbi, and the Diocletian Baths, the Roman National Museum preserves the world’s greatest collection of Greco-Roman art. Your combo ticket is valid for eight days and gives you access to all connected museums.
National Roman Museum
The National Roman Museum, home to the world's most important
collection of Greco-Roman art, is housed in four different sites – the
Palazzo Massimo, the Palazzo Altemps, the Crypta Balbi, and the
Diocletian Baths.
Palazzo Massimo
Palazzo Massimo holds the premier Roman coin collection in the world,
as well as ancient Roman sculpture, mosaics, paintings, and jewelry
distributed over three floors.
Designed to look like the Renaissance palace it replaced, the Palazzo
Massimo was built between 1883 and 1887 by Camillo Pistrucci for
Cardinal and Prince Massimiliano Massimo to house a college run by the
Jesuits. During World War II, the building served as a military
hospital. It was returned to the Jesuits after the war, but was
abandoned a few years later.
The Italian Government bought the
structure in 1981, and transformed it into a museum. Since 1998 it has
been the seat of the Museo Nazionale Romano, the National Roman
Museum.
The coin collection exhibit illustrates the story of Roman money, from
its origins to its function in modern times.
Jewelry discovered in
ancient burial grounds in Rome and its suburbs reflects the history and
evolution of fashion and costume in the Roman Empire. The only known
Roman mummy, an eight year old girl found in a tomb on the Via Cassia,
is also on display.
The collection of ancient art, covering the ground, first, and second
floors of the palace, includes many examples of Roman art dating from
the late Republican period to the end of the Roman Empire, as well as
several original Greek works discovered during excavations in the
Gardens of Sallust in the northwest of the city.
The ground floor includes a rich display of portrait sculpture,
mosaics, inscriptions and decorative sculptures, and documents the
period after the Greek conquest and the transformation of the Roman
State from Republic to a great Mediterranean empire.
The sculpture collection continues on the first floor. Emperor
Caligula's bronze ornaments are also located on this floor.
The second floor has an impressive collection of mosaics and paintings
from ancient villas, including fine frescoes and stucco designs from a
Roman villa found on the grounds of the villa Farnesina, and the
barrel-vaulted chamber containing the frescoes from an underground room
of the Livia's villa at Prima Porta, which are among the best conserved
illustrations of an ancient Roman gardens. The villa was Livia
Drusilla's, also known as Livia Augusta, wife and advisor of the
emperor Augustus Caesar.
Palazzo Altemps
The Palace of Altemps is one of the most interesting examples of the
Renaissance architecture in Rome and has belonged to the complex of the
National Roman Museum since 1997.
The palace is home to Renaissance and Baroque sculptures such as the
famous Boncompagni Ludovisi collection, the rich 16th century
collection of Asdrubale and Ciriaco Mattei and the Altemps collection
itself. These collections contain noted works of art, such as the Birth
of Venus which forms part of the Ludovisi Collection, probably
dating back to the fifth century BC.
The sculptures of eastern deities, belonging to the Egyptian
collection, are exhibited in one room, and the palace also includes the
historic and recently restructured Goldoni Theater, which is used for
conferences. It is also possible to see the Church of Sant’ Aniceto,
whose construction was commissioned by Giovanni Angelo Altemps in 1603.
Sant’ Aniceto is one of the richest churches of Rome and houses a large
number of relics and the vestments of Sant’ Aniceto, one of the first
Popes.
The Crypta Balbi
Originally a large courtyard annexed to the theatre which Lucio
Cornelio Balbo built for Augustus at the end of the first century AD,
the Crypta Balbi illustrates the development of Roman society and the
urban landscape from antiquity to modern times.
Twenty years of
excavation and research have revealed a series of transformations and
diverse uses of the structure.
Exhibitions include artifacts recovered from excavations on the site,
such as ceramic objects and tools, as well as items from the National
Roman Museum proper. Certain objects found at the site of excavations
near the theater have been opened to public viewing only recently.
It is also possible to the visit the cellars where one can see the
actual crypt and the historical layers of the building structure.
The Diocletian Baths
The Diocletian Baths were constructed by the end of the 3rd Century AD
and have been the historical seat of the Museo Nazionale Romano since
1889.
Almost a century after Caracalla gave the Romans his gargantuan Baths,
Emperor Diocletian strove to outshine his imperial predecessor by
commissioning the largest and most gorgeous bathing establishment the
world had ever seen. The construction begun in 298 AD and was completed
in 305 AD. Construction involved over 500 slaves.
These baths had a focal role in the Romans' social life – more than
just a place for bathing, they were a place for gathering, a cultural
center. With its many pools of different temperatures, heated marble
toilets, separated areas for men and women, steam rooms, gardens, inns,
gymnasiums, art galleries, libraries, and auditoriums, the complex of
the Diocletian Baths could hold up to 3,000 people. Inside the complex
there were open “exedras” (used perhaps for conference rooms and public
readings), wide rectangular rooms (libraries) and circular rooms at the
west and south corners, transformed later into the church of San
Bernardo alle Terme and into a restaurant with an arena.
A part of the baths was transformed by Michelangelo into the church of
Santa Maria degli Angeli in in 1561.
The floor that leads to the altar
is an original Roman sundial, the church structure itself is
breathtaking for its vast size and elegant proportions. Italian state
funerals are usually held here, and concerts of religious music are
performed here during the Christmas and Easter seasons.
The Diocletian Baths are home to a collection of funereal artworks,
such as sarcophagi, and decorations dating back to the Aurelian period.
The Baths also have a section reserved for temporary exhibitions.
An important part of the Diocletian Baths, the Octagonal Hall lies at
the southwest corner of the central building. It holds the Lyceum
Apollo and the Aphrodite of Cyrene, discovered in
Cyrene, Libya. Both of these sculptures date back to the 2nd century AD.
Cancellation Policy
Once a confirmation code has been assigned to your reservation, we can refund the cost of unused tickets, also for no-shows, minus a service fee (reservation fee and online booking fee).