Rome is overflowing with historic wonders and it has some excellent museums in which to display them. The Musei Capitolini and their fabulous collection of classical sculpture were the first public museums in the world. Other showcases, such as the Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Pantheon feel less like museums and more like city districts so steeped in history that your imagination can easily transport you back to the city's ancient past.
Galleries of art from the early Christian era up to early Renaissance
The collection at Palazzo Venezia contains a hotchpotch of everything from terracotta models by Bernini to medieval decorative art....
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The only one of its kind in the world
All you wanted to know (and much more) about Italy's national staple....
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Founded in 1889 in the splendid Villa Giulia
Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia charts the development of the sophisticated, mysterious Etruscans....
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The oldest, but still among the best
The Musei Capitolini are the oldest galleries open to the public anywhere in the world....
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One of the Vatican Museums
The Vatican Treasury is one of the many storehouses that makes up the Vatican Museums....
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Home of the famous Lodovisi art collection
The Palazzo Altemps was once the late-Renaissance palace of Cardinal Altemps....
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