Rome, Sunday, Aug. 1 free admission in civic museums, exhibitions and archaeological areas

OnSunday, August 1,free admission returns to the Roma Capitale Museum System on the first Sunday of the month, an initiative promoted by Roma Culture, Capitoline Superintendent of Cultural Heritage. All visitors, residents and non-residents alike, will have free access to the civic museums, the archaeological area of the Circus Maximus (from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., last entry at 5:50 p.m.), the archaeological area of the Imperial Fora (entrance from Trajan’s Column from 8:30 a.m. to 7:15 p.m., last entry at 6:10 p.m.) and the pedestrian path of the archaeological area of the Theater of Marcellus (from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.). There is also a free evening walk in the archaeological area of the Imperial Forums (6:30 to 9:50 p.m., last admission) with a guided walking tour that from the Forum of Trajan, through the passage under Via dei Fori Imperiali, leads to the Forum of Caesar.

To participate in the initiative, reservations are required at 060608 (by Friday, July 30) or at Tourist Infopoints (also on the day itself).

On the first free Sunday in August, you can visit the Capitoline Museums, the Mercati di Traiano - Museo dei Fori Imperiali, the Ara Pacis Museum, the Centrale Montemartini, the Museo di Roma, the Museo di Roma in Trastevere, the Galleria d’Modern Art, the Museums of Villa Torlonia, the Civic Museum of Zoology, the Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture, the Carlo Bilotti Museum - Villa Borghese Orangery, the Napoleonic Museum, the Pietro Canonica Museum in Villa Borghese, the Museum of the Roman Republic and Garibaldian Memory, the Museum of Casal de’ Pazzi, the Museum of the Walls and the Villa of Maxentius.

The civic museums are opening their doors free of charge to visitors with masterpieces from the permanent collections and the many ongoing temporary exhibitions.

At the Capitoline Museums, the multimedia exhibition project The Legacy of Caesar and the Conquest of Time, set up in the Hall of the She-Wolf and the Ancient Fasti, tells the story of Rome from its origins to the dawn of the imperial age thanks to multimedia; in the Exedra of Marcus Aurelius, the hand of Constantine’s bronze colossus has been reassembled with the found fragment of the bronze finger from the Louvre Museum.

At the Museum of Rome at Palazzo Braschi Adolfo Porry-Pastorel The Other Look. Birth of Photojournalism in Italy, the first major solo exhibition dedicated to the father of Italian photojournalists, a pioneer of the political, costume and social image that marks the birth of our way of looking in the news.

The exhibition Napoleon and the Myth of Rome, at the Mercati di Traiano - Musei dei Fori Imperiali, is dedicated to Napoleon’s excavation activities in Rome and is linked to the bicentenary of his death and the latest archaeological investigations in the Imperial Forum area.

A wide selection of mosaics, masterpieces from the Capitoline collections little known to the general public, is instead displayed in Colors of the Romans. Mosaics from the Capitoline Collections at the Centrale Montemartini.

There are two photographic exhibitions to visit at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere: on the ground floor Call it Rome. Photographs by Sandro Becchetti1968-2013 offers, through about 180 black-and-white photographs, a personal and poetic revisitation of Rome. On the upper floor Luciano D’Alessandro. The Last Idealist is dedicated to one of the greatest protagonists of Italian photojournalism.

It is still the French emperor who is the protagonist of theexhibition Napoleon. Last Act, at the Napoleonic Museum, on the events of the French emperor’s exile, death and subsequent mythmaking.

In the exhibitions devoted to artistKaty Castellucci (Katy Castellucci. The Roman School and Beyond, at Villa Torlonia’s Casino dei Principi, and Katy Castellucci. The Roman School and Beyond. Animals, at the Casina delle Civette) paintings, drawings and other works represent the entire creative path of the Lombard painter and reconstruct the artistic environment in which she moved.

On the theme of preserving the natural environment, the Civic Museum of Zoology hosts the exhibition La Via delle Api, a journey through the world of bees and their products.

The Gallery of Modern Art offers various exhibitions: Hello Male. Face Power and Identity of Contemporary Man, which describes the evolution of the representation and role of contemporary man in society and the influence these changes have had on the arts, particularly from the second half of the 1960s to the present post-ideological period. The Eucalyptus Revolution, the unprecedented exhibition concept conceived by artist Nina Maroccolo, created as part of the Earth Day 2021 initiatives. Also on view outside and inside the Gallery are hyperrealist sculptures by Carole A. Feuerman. In the cloister Sten Lex. Rebirth shows a selection of works by the two well-known Italian muralists.

At the Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture La Vita Nova: Dante’s love in the gaze of 10 women artists: as part of Dante700, a major project between art and literature, a bridge between the great tradition and contemporary Italian experimentation.

At Villa di Massenzio Isole, an art project developed by Tommaso Strinati with photographer Anna Budkova, and with the help of video-maker Francesco Arcuri. A reflection on current events mediated through the suggestion of the place with the powerful reminder of the ancient of its vestiges.

Exceptions to the free admission, in addition to the augmented reality Circo Maximo Experience at Circo Massimo, are the exhibitions: Koudelka. Roots, extended until Sept. 26 at the Ara Pacis Museum, with more than one hundred spectacular images of more than one hundred Mediterranean archaeological sites; Rome. Birth of a Capital 1870 -1915, at the Museum of Rome in Palazzo Braschi, which presents the major events from 1870 until the years of World War I through works of art, paintings, sculptures, photographs, documentary and film materials; The Torlonia Marbles. Collecting Masterpieces at the Capitoline Museums - Villa Caffarelli, extended through Jan. 9, 2022, with more than 90 works selected from the 620 cataloged marbles belonging to the Torlonia collection, the most prestigious private collection of ancient sculpture.

At Circo Maximo Experience and these three exhibitions, reduced-price admission is allowed to MIC Card holders.

All information and updates can be followed at www.museiincomuneroma.it and culture.roma.it and on the social channels of Roma Culture, the Museum System and the Capitoline Superintendency. Museum services provided by Zètema Progetto Cultura.

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Rome, Sunday, Aug. 1 free admission in civic museums, exhibitions and archaeological areas

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