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Welcome to Rome-Explorer.com's guide to art in Rome. As you are probably already aware Rome is one of the world's art capitals, and no other city in the world can offer such a high concentration of rich artistic patrimony from different historic periods than Rome can. Rome also hosts a number of important art exhibition venues which house national and international art exhibitions which are traveling through Rome as a part of their tour.

ART IN ROME: MUSEO DEL CORSO

If your have already visited the major Rome museums and are in mood for a smaller exhibitory place, which usually holds modern art exhibitions, you can go to the Corso Museum. This museum was created in Rome in 1999 and is located in the very hearth of the city near Piazza Venezia. On its site you’ll find information about the past and ongoing exhibitions and all the practical information you ...

CARLO BILOTTI MUSEUM

The permanent art collection in Rome of the Carlo Bilotti's Museum consists of the gift of 22 works, including paintings, drawings and sculptures. The most coherent and central group is made up of 18 works by Giorgio de Chirico (Volos 1888-Rome 1978), of which 17 are displayed in this room and one, a sculpture of Hector and Andromache, is installed outside the Museum.

GOETHE'S HOUSE

The permanent art exhibition has been conceived in three languages (German, Italian and English) and explains Goethe's journey and his sojourn in Rome. The standing exhibitions are often dedicated to German-Italian subjects and the tradition of the journey to Italy. With its cultural events in German and Italian such as talks, readings and colloquiums, the Goethe's House is considered a place of ...

LEONARDO DA VINCI MUSEUM IN ROME

Art and events in Rome: an exhibition dedicated to the universal genius of Leonardo Da Vinci, in the heart of Rome with numerous touring versions all over the world, the Leonardo Da Vinci’s Museum give to every single visitor a unique experience where its sensorial perception and the knowledge about “Leonardo” espouse together to donate the feeling of being immerse in a very topicality ...

MEMMO FOUNDATION: RUSPOLI PALACE

Art in Rome: the generous and relentless abnegation of Mr. Roberto Memmo has enabled him to create with the Fondazione Memmo, rare example in Italy, an entirely privately run cultural organisation. The Foundation Memmo was, therefore, created to concretise its founder’s dream of bringing the arts to the young and to the vast public by means of cultural events which could enable a direct study ...

MUSEUMS IN ROME

Art in Rome: the Museum System of the Municipality of Rome is made up of an extremely diverse group of museum spaces and archaeological sites, of huge artistic and historical value. As well as the Capitoline Museums the museums that make up the System include the Museum of Rome, MACRO, the museum of Villa Torlonia, the Planetarium and the Astronomical Museum, the Museum of the Altar of Peace, and ...

ROME'S MUSEUM IN TRASTEVERE

The permanent art collection of the Rome museum in Trastevere exhibits the salient aspects of popular life in Rome during the end of the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, filtered through the tastes and convictions of the artists and folklorists who represented it. The Museum was recently restructured to make it better adapted to the current needs of the museum – which include space for ...

THE SCUDERIE DEL QUIRINALE

Scuderie del Quirinale (in Rome), offers its visitors a number of events and exhibition of art either related to the current exhibition or independent, with the aim of enriching and integrating the fruition of the historic building and of its activities. It organize film reviews. The building covers approximately 3000 square meters, over several floors. Wide-open spaces on the second and third ...

ART IN ROME: OSTIA ANTICA

Do you like the ancient roman art? We organize tour guide to the archaelogical site of Ostia Antica (Rome). The 2 hours-tour total, is for groups (max 25 people/guide). We are pleased to guarantee you the high level of tourist guide, graduated in art history or art subject, to groups or to individual person to discover the beautiful art history and archaelogic of Ostia Antica and Rome.

VILLA TORLONIA MUSEUM

Art in Rome: Villa Torlonia, the most recent of the villas belonging to Rome’s nobility, still retains a particular fascination due to the originality of its English-style garden. Villa Torlonia has many art museums. The attractions of the site are the Casino Nobile (the home of the Villa Museum and the collection of works by the Roman School), the Casino dei Principi (used for exhibitions and ...
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