The collection of the famous Jesuit scholar/scientist Athanasius Kircher, once kept in the Collegio Romano, was dissolved after the unification of Italy (1870). The Etruscan objects ended in the Villa Giulia, the Roman objects in the National Museum. The Egyptian…
The museum of the Roman city walls may not be the most famous of Rome, but it is worth a visit. Situated in the ancient Porta Appia, now known as the Porta di San Sebastiano, it offers a lot of…
Everyone has an innocent private sin, a guilty pleasure. For instance, if I visit Rome, I prefer Chinese food for dinner, and in the afternoon, I like McDonald’s for lunch. (I want to see things, so I don’t want to…
Museum with objects from the Crypta Balbi excavation and the Medieval finds from the Forum Romanum.
There are 3 items in Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano - Crypta Balbi:
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The porter of the Palazzo Altemps, just north of the Piazza Navona, is so uninterested that he does not even look in the book he has taken with him. He’s just bored. After he’s sold you a ticket and has…
When I visited Rome for the first time, back in ’82, the Museo nazionale romano was closed. I do not recall when I was for the first time able to visit it, although it must have been in the early…
If you think that the message of the Catholic Church has something to do with love for humankind, you haven’t visited the Vatican Museums yet. It is impossible to leave the building without feeling a profound hatred against other people…
I visited the Villa Giulia for the first time in 1982, a couple of days before my eighteenth birthday. I had read the first five books by Livy and had become fond of early Roman history, which naturally drove me…