Rome

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Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia

This collection records the pre-Roman peoples of central Italy, and the sophisticated, mysterious Etruscans in particular. The villa was originally designed by Vignola and Michelangelo in the mid 16th century for Pope Julius III. The Etruscans went well prepared to their graves, and most of the collection comes from excavations of tombs: the museum houses hundreds of vases, pieces of furniture and models of buildings made to accompany the dead. In the courtyard, stairs descend to the nymphaeum; in an adjacent room is the the sixth-century BC terracotta Apollo of Veio. In the garden there is a reconstruction of an Etruscan temple and a pleasant café.

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