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Opening times
From Tuesday to Sunday
From 9.30 to 19.30 (last admission at 18.45)
Closed on Mondays, 25 December
Information
From 1st February 2024 access to Hendrik Christian Andersen museum will require a ticket.
€ 6,00 full price
€ 2,00 reduced ticket for people aged from 18 to 25
Free for visitors under 18 years
For complete information regarding free tickets and discounts please visit the dedicated page: https://cultura.gov.it/agevolazioni
Every first Sunday of the month the entrance is free.
The ticket can be purchased online on the web-platform MUSEI ITALIANI or directly using ATM cards and credit cards at the ticket office located on the site.
For further information about groups, schools:
https://direzionemuseiroma.cultura.gov.it//museo-hendrik-christian-andersen
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For groups up to max 15 people (with or without a guide) it is necessary to book by mail from Tuesday to Sunday.
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Description
The small building is known also as Villa Hélèn and was built in 1922-25 on a design by Andersen himself in neo fifteenth century style with stuccoes, full-relief sculptures and Art Nouveau style pictorial decorations. On his death in 1940 the artist left the house, including the furniture, the works, the photographic material, and the library to the Italian State.
The collection of works (over 200 sculptures and 350 graphic works) testify the great dream to which the artist dedicated all his life: to realize a City that was to be an international laboratory and breeding ground of ideas in all the fields of human knowledge. The statues were supposed to decorate that City. The huge plasters and the bronze groups dedicated to the themes of love, maternity, physical strength, and intellect are now exhibited in the Gallery and in the Study on the ground floor, while space on the upper floor is reserved to temporary exhibitions. The various documents include the remarkable collection of the correspondence that documents the friendship between Andersen in his youth and the writer Henry James.
The Museum is part of the museum pole of the National Gallery of Modern Art together with the Manzù Collection, the Mario Praz Museum, and the Boncompagni-Ludovisi Museum.