Museo Nazionale Romano

The Museo Nazionale Romano represents a complex of museums split between different branches across Rome. The first collection of the museum was created from the archeological collections of the Museo Kircheriano.

Collections of the museum are housed in three different facilities - the Baths of Diocletian, which include the Octagonal Hall and the two Palazzis Massimo and Altemps.

The Baths of Diocletian offers a row of rooms which are opened for public present days. The rooms #1-9 exhibit the funerary materials, such as sarcophagi and artifacts in the capacity of the decorations on the Temple of Aurelian. The rooms # 10 -12 houses temporary exhibitions. The "Masterpiece Rooms" offer almost ten thousands of inscriptions.

At the southwest corner of the Baths of Diocletian there is the Octagonal Hall. The Hall features the Aphrodite and the Lyceum Apollo of Cyrene.

The Palazzo Massimo was constructed in imitation of the noble residences of the period of early Roman Baroque. Its collections are implying the Augustus’ program of ideology and politics and his statue.

The Palazzo Altemps can boast the collection displaying masterpieces such as: one of the most famous mosaics in Rome - the Castelporziano mosaic, a copy relevant to Lysippus - the Ludovisi Ares, grandiose sarcophagus illustrating a battle between the Barbarians and Romans, the Gaul who kills himself together with his wife and etc.

Location:	Baths of Diocletian V.le E. De Nicola, 79