This fascinating museum is located inside the Palazzo Colonna-Barberini, which was built on the highest terrace of the temple to Fortuna. Today the palazzo-museum incorporates...

This small collection of mainly pre-Roman art was amassed in the first half of the 20th century by Giovanni Barracco. His interests covered the whole gamut of ancient art:...

This contemporary art museum is housed in a palazzo that was bought by Scipione Borghese in 1616 and used as a resting place during hunts. Damaged by French cannon fire in...

On the north-east side of the Bioparco-Zoo is the Museo di Zoologia, with a room dedicated to the wetlands of Lazio and sections on animal reproduction, biodiversity and...

Inscriptions and carvings from the old Cinque Scole - where Catalonian, Aragonese and Sicilian Jews traditionally worshipped with Roman Jews in the Ghetto - line the entrance...

This privately owned space stages exhibitions on artistic, historical and literary themes; the presentation is often more impressive than the content.

Focusing on the decorative arts between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, this museum has intricate gold- and silver-decorated swords, buckles and horse tackle,...

This museum dates from 1937, when Mussolini mounted a massive celebration to mark the second millennium of Augustus becoming the first emperor. The fact that the celebration...

It's a humble but oddly charming little museum, containing artefacts and prints pertaining to via Ostiense and the port at its far end. There are large-scale models of old...

This macabre collection, attached to the neo-Gothic church of Sacro Cuore di Gesù in Prati, contains hand- and fingerprints left on the prayer books and clothes of the living...

Staff shortages mean opening times can be changed without notice. It pays to call ahead. This enormous collection is dedicated to Italian folk art and rural tradition. Exhibits...

Housed in the ancient Porta San Sebastiano, the little Museum of the Walls has a smallish collection of artefacts associated with Roman walls and roads. The museum's greatest...

The collection at Palazzo Venezia contains a hotchpotch of everything from terracotta models by Bernini to medieval decorative art. In Room 1 are Venetian odds and ends,...

A rotating collection displayed over two floors recounts the evolution of the Eternal City from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. Paintings and drawings include...