Rome

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Palazzo Massimo alle Terme

Note: There’s an extra charge of €2 during special exhibitions.

In the basement of Palazzo Massimo – home to a large chunk of the Museo Nazionale Romano collection – is an extensive collection of coins, Roman luxuries, descriptions of trade routes and audio-visual displays. On the ground and first floors are busts of emperors and lesser mortals. On the ground floor, in Room 5, is a magnificent statue of Augustus as pontifex maximus. The first floor begins with the age of Vespasian (AD 69-79): his pugilistic portrait bust is in Room 1; Room 5 has a gracefully crouching Aphrodite from Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli; in Room 7 is a peacefully sleeping hermaphrodite, a second-century AD copy of a Greek original. On the second floor, rare wall paintings from assorted villas have been reassembled. Room 10 contains Botero-like, larger-than-life (megalographic) paintings, and Room 11 has dazzlingly bright marble intarsia works.

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