Rome before modernisation
Paintings, prints and photographs of the city before the great avenues were cut โ they show you what was lost.
Chabe01 โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Krzysztof Golik โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Francesco Bini โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Francesco Bini โ CC BY-SA 4.0
For a second or third visit to Rome, when you want to understand the modern city rather than the ancient one. On a short first trip, spend your time on the ruins and the Vatican.
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A late eighteenth-century palace on the edge of Piazza Navona, built by Pope Pius VI for his family โ the last papal palace raised in Rome for a pope's relative before the custom ended. It now houses the Museum of Rome: a collection telling how the city looked and how its people lived from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. It holds paintings, drawings and prints of Rome before modernisation, early photographs, costume, carriages and furniture, and architectural fragments from demolished buildings. For anyone who has seen the ruins and churches and wants to understand the city itself as a lived place, this is the right museum. The ceremonial marble staircase at the entrance is among Rome's finest and is worth stopping for on its own. The palace usually hosts large temporary exhibitions โ check the programme, as both the ticket price and the character of the visit change with whatever is showing.
Paintings, prints and photographs of the city before the great avenues were cut โ they show you what was lost.
A grand marble stair with columns and statuary at the entrance โ one of the finest in Rome.
Piazza San Pantaleo 10, beside Piazza Navona, Rome
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