Easter in Rome's museums: exhibitions, events and lots of activities for the whole family

On the occasion of the Easter holidays, Rome offers a varied program of exhibitions and events for the whole family to learn about the history of Rome, its museum collections, its monuments and its landscape, while also remembering the Christmas of Rome and Earth Day. In fact, the program this year is enriched with events dedicated to Christmas in Rome (April 21), Earth Day (April 22) and Jubilee-related initiatives with educational activities, guided tours of museums to discover temporary exhibitions and permanent collections, as well as workshops for younger children.

At the Capitoline Museums, Villa Caffarelli is hosting the exhibitionThe Farnese in Sixteenth-Century Rome. Origins and fortune of a collection: one hundred and forty masterpieces including ancient sculptures, bronzes, paintings, drawings, manuscripts, gems and coins from the most prestigious collection of artworks and archaeological finds of the Renaissance. In the earthly rooms of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Titian, Lotto, Crivelli and Guercino. Masterpieces from the Pinacoteca di Ancona, a selection of great works from the Pinacoteca Civica ’Francesco Podesti’ in Ancona. In the Tapestry Room of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Agrippa Iulius Caesar, the Repudiated Heir. A new portrait of Agrippa Postumus , adopted son of Augustus, three portraits of Agrippa Postumus.

In the halls of the Clementine Palace, free admission includes a visit to The Colors of Antiquity. Marmi Santarelli at the Capitoline Museums, a broad overview of the use of colored marble from its origins to the 20th century through a fine selection of pieces from the Santarelli Foundation. Finally, Easter can be an opportunity to admire, in the garden of Villa Caffarelli, the imposing full-size reconstruction of the Colossus of Constantine, a statue about 13 meters high created through innovative techniques, starting from the original pieces from the fourth century A.D. preserved in the Capitoline Museums.

At the Museo Carlo Bilotti Aranciera in Villa Borghese, the exhibition Tra mito e sacro. Works from the Capitoline Collections of Contemporary Art, on the occasion of the Jubilee Year celebrations, offers a look at the dimension of the “sacred” and sacredness in contemporary art, through its multifaceted languages.

At the Museum of Rome, Amano Corpus Animae, the exhibition celebrating the 50-year career of master Yoshitaka Amano by collecting more than 200 original works, animation cel and cult objects in a single exhibition. Continued in the same museum is Roma pittrice. Women artists in Rome between the 16th and 19th centuries, an exhibition that focuses on women artists who worked in Rome from the 16th century onward, with a path that reaches up to the 1800s and the new ways of progressive access to training that slowly imposed themselves in accordance with the European scene. The same museum will host The Enchantment of Beauty, two paintings by the great Venetian painter Sebastiano Ricci on public display for the first time, and BEYOND WORDS. Where every gesture and glance tells a deeper story, a photographic exhibition of fashion and contemporary art, on the occasion of World Autism Awareness Day.

At the Museo di Roma in Trastevere it will be possible to visit the exhibition Frigidaire - History and Images of the World’s Most Revolutionary Art Magazine the most spectacular images and the many famous artistic figures who appeared in the pages of the magazine founded in 1980 by Vincenzo Sparagna, Stefano Tamburini Filippo Scozzari, along with Andrea Pazienza, Tanino Liberatore and Massimo Mattioli. In the rooms on the second floor continues The Poet’s Tree. Tasso’s Oak at the Janiculum: through documents, photographs, graphics, paintings and testimonies, many of them exhibited for the first time, it will be possible to rediscover the importance of this place dear to Torquato Tasso, and its indissoluble bond with the city of Rome. Finally, in the piano room on the second floor, the retrospective NICOLA SANSONE - Photography as Freedom, an exhibition that tells the story of the Neapolitan photographer, an exponent of that “Roman cohort” of reporters who, starting in the 1950s, marked a season of great cultural ferment in the sphere of Italian photojournalism.

At the Ara Pacis Museum,Franco Fontana. Retrospective, the first major retrospective exhibition dedicated to the Modenese photographer’s entire artistic career, with works selected from his vast archive.

At the Museums of Villa Torlonia, at the Casino dei Principi, until April 21 one can visit the exhibition Titina Maselli, one of the most important and influential figures in the sphere of great international art of the 20th century, through a broad retrospective view of her work on the occasion of the centenary of her birth. At the Casina delle Civette you can visit the exhibition Niki Berlinguer. The Lady of Tapestries, a comprehensive overview of the tapestry production made by the eminent weaver and artist, a pioneer in translating painting into textile narratives. Finally, in the rooms of the Dependency of the Owl House PYSANKA The Fragile Beauty of Ukrainian Art: in the tradition ofEastern Europe, particularly in Ukraine, the egg, an ancestral symbol of rebirth and fertility, has a fundamental value. Through the decoration of the shell, in fact, it becomes an auspicious object, the so-called “pysanka.”

In the spaces of the Gallery of Modern Art, the exhibition Homage to Carlo Levi. Friendship with Piero Martina and the Paths of Collecting recounts the unpublished chapter of the friendship between Carlo Levi and Piero Martina fifty years after the death of the anti-fascist painter and writer. The museum also hosts the retrospective on Nino Bertoletti 1889-1971, a multifaceted artist, capable of ranging with equal intensity from painting to graphics, architecture to journalism to collecting. In addition, it will still be possible to admire Venanzo Crocetti ’s L’allieva di danza. The Return, one of Crocetti’s first large-scale sculptures dedicated to the theme of dance, returned in all its magnificence after a restoration byICR technicians.

It will also be possible to visit the city’s archaeological areas such as the Archaeological Park of the Caelian with the Museum of the Forma Urbis, (Entrances Viale del Parco del Celio 20/22 - Clivo di Scauro 4); theSacred Area of Largo Argentina, the archaeological area of the Circus Maximus and the Imperial Forums (entrance from the Trajan Column).

For the Jubilee Special, activities in both Italian and English: snippets on the history of the museums and their collections at theArchivio Storico Capitolino, the Capitoline Museums and the Mercati di Traiano, itineraries on the Aurelian Walls, a journey between art and nature at the Carlo Bilotti Museum in Villa Borghese, and a workshop for the whole family to immerse themselves in the music and poetry of the 1800s at the Museum of the Roman Republic and Garibaldian Memory.

For all information, you can visit the official website of Museums in Common Rome.

Easter in Rome's museums: exhibitions, events and lots of activities for the whole family

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