The Villa of Livia garden room
A complete room from the house of Augustus' wife, its walls a painted garden still vivid after two thousand years.
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Because it sits by Termini, off the central tourist route, and carries no famous name. That works in your favour: near-empty rooms in front of world-class pieces.
Surprisingly yes: statues, mosaics and the painted room read more easily to a child than a picture gallery, and the place is quiet, spacious and queue-free.
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The best museum in Rome that nobody knows. A branch of the National Roman Museum two minutes from Termini station, holding the world's most important collection of Roman sculpture, mosaic and wall painting โ and yet you walk its rooms almost alone. The second floor is the reason: the frescoes from the Villa of Livia, wife of the emperor Augustus, lifted whole from her room and reassembled โ a painted garden that surrounds you on four sides with trees, birds and fruit in colours that have not faded in two thousand years. Standing inside that room is the closest you can get to walking into a real Roman house. Elsewhere: the bronze Boxer at Rest with his broken face, the Hellenistic Prince, imperial portrait statues, complete mosaic floors, and a coin collection that explains the Roman economy. The ticket usually covers four National Roman Museum sites over several days โ check when you buy.
A complete room from the house of Augustus' wife, its walls a painted garden still vivid after two thousand years.
An original Greek bronze with a broken face and bleeding cuts โ among the most honest realist sculptures to survive antiquity.
Complete mosaics from Roman villas displayed at full size โ rarely seen this intact anywhere.
Largo di Villa Peretti 1, near Termini station, Rome
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