Museo di Roma

The Museo di Roma, housed in the 18th-century Palazzo Braschi, displays over 100,000 works depicting Rome’s history and culture from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

Planning your visit

The Museo di Roma occupies Palazzo Braschi, an eighteenth-century palace built by a pope for his nephew — one of the last acts of Roman nepotism on that scale, completed shortly before the Napoleonic invasion ended the practice.

The collection of over 100,000 items documents Rome itself rather than the ancient city: paintings, prints, photographs, costumes, carriages and furniture recording how the city looked and functioned from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The views of vanished Rome are the substance of it — streets, squares and buildings demolished during the nineteenth-century reconstruction after Rome became the Italian capital, and again under Mussolini, when whole quarters were cleared.

For anyone interested in what was lost to make the modern city, this is the record.

The building sits on Piazza Navona, and the grand staircase is worth the visit alone. Allow ninety minutes. Bookable options include reserved entry tickets. Current availability is listed below.