Musei Capitolini

The Italian Musei Capitolini represents a number of archeological and art museums. The place of its location is the restored palaces framing Piazza del Campidoglio, which is situated on a top a popular Rome’s Capitoline Hill. The history of the Capitoline Museums is traced to 1471. The collection of the museums has grown since then. It contains a big row of Roman statues of period of antiquity, numerous artifacts, inscriptions, collection of art from Renaissance and medieval periods, jewel collections, collections of coins, etc.

The owning and operating of the Italian Musei Capitolini is realized by the municipality of Rome. The Italian Musei Capitolini contains in three surrounding buildings, which are the Palazzo Senatorio, the Palazzo dei Conservatori and the Palazzo Nuovo. The Palazzo dei Conservatori houses paintings by such masters as Peter Paul Rubens, Titian, and Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Paolo Veronese, and besides, the fragments of a grandiose statue of Constantine and the bronze statue of Marcus Aurelius. Here are the works of mostly Roman, bur also Egyptian and Greek masters.

The second floor of the the Palazzo dei Conservatori is occupied by the Conservator's Apartment where the guests can admire t carved ceilings and doors he considered interior decorations, which include tapestries, frescoes, stuccos.

The third floor represents and Art Gallery, the Capitoline Coin Cabinet with numerous collections of medals, coins and jewels.

The Palazzo Nuovo is represented by the mosaics, inscriptions, busts, sarcophagi, ancient Roman artifacts and remarkable Roman sculpture, where there are the Dying Gaul, the Capitoline Brutus, fragment of the Tabula Iliaca, restored statue Oceanus and the Capitoline Venus.

Lots of Roman statues were demolished in the Middle Ages on the orders of Christian Church authorities.

Besides, in the early XX century there as added to the total museum complex the, the 16th century Palazzo Caffarelli-Clementino.

Beneath the Palazzo dei Conservatori the is situated the Galleria Congiunzione, which houses the 2nd century ruins of dwellings from antiquity and Galleria Lapidaria with its collection of epigraph.

Location:	Piazza del Campidoglio, 1 - 00186 ROMA