Capitoline Museums
Historical Center
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- Location: Capitoline Museums
- Address: Piazza del Campidoglio 1
- E-Mail: info.museicapitolini@comune.roma.it
- Phone#: +39 06 0608
- Booking phone#: +39 06 0608
- Opening: From Monday to Saturday: from 9:30am to 7:30pm
December 24th and 31st: from 9:30am to 2pm
The ticket office closes one hour before museum closing
Closed: January 1st, May 1st, December 25th - Visit lasts: 1 hour e 30 minutes (about)
- Services:
Hosted by the Palazzo dei Conservatori and the Palazzo Nuovo, it is the oldest public museum in the world, thanks to the donation in 1471 by Pope Sixtus IV of works of art once held at the Lateran Palace. In the 1500s, Pope Leo X and Pope Pius V added to the collection, but it was mostly in 1734 with the acquisition of a number of marble statues of the Albani collection that the museum truly grew notably. When Rome became the Capital, the museum took over the Palazzo dei Conservatori and the Museo Nuovo (1925) and the Braccio Nuovo (1952) were opened as well.The museums hold collections of classic marble and bronze statues, paintings and a collection of medallions and coins.
