Built between 1883 and 1887 to a design by the architect Camillo Pistrucci in a restrained Neo-Renaissance style, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme began life as a Jesuit college and kept that purpose until 1960. In 1981 it was acquired by the Italian State and became one of the seats of the National Roman Museum.
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Museum of Roman Civilisation (RO)
The Museum of Roman Civilisation has a distinctive character within the vast and varied landscape of Rome’s museums. Indeed, the material it holds consists mostly of reproductions.
Archaeological Museum, Castello Sforzesco, Milan (MI)
The material, arranged chronologically, illustrates human life in northern Italy from the Neolithic to the Roman colonisation in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC.
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Archaeological Museum of Spoleto (PG)
The monumental complex that houses the museum is built on the structures of the Roman theatre and partly reuses its materials and masonry. The exhibition documents the process through which the urban centre of Spoleto took shape, up to the municipium phase, and its relations with the surrounding territory.
Archaeological Museum of Monterenzio (BO)
The “Luigi Fantini” Museum in Monterenzio documents the history of settlement in the Idice and Zena valleys and displays the material recovered since the 1980s during the excavation campaigns at the Etruscan-Celtic settlement of Monte Bibele.
Archaeological Museum, Milan (MI)
The Archaeological Museum has been renovated and enlarged, with new exhibition spaces in the building on via Nirone, reached by a walkway that crosses the Roman walls from the museum’s inner cloister.