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Typology: Archaeological Museums, State Museum

Addresses

Address: Via di Sant'Apollinare, 46
Zone: Rione Ponte (Via Coronari-Ponte Vittorio) (Roma centro)
Disabled access: Via di Sant'Apollinare, 8
Zone: Rione Ponte (Via Coronari-Ponte Vittorio) (Roma centro)

Contacts

Opening times

From Tuesday to Sunday from 11.00 - 18.00
Last admission at 17.00
Closed on Mondays

For updates and guidelines please checkt the > officiale website.

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Information

Ordinary entrance ticket for the Palazzo Altemps
€ 8.00 full price
€ 2.00 reduced
+ € 2.00 presale in case of online purchase
Reduced for Italian and European citizens aged between 18 and 25 years.
Free: see free conditions

Combined entrance ticket for all locations of the Museo Nazionale Romano

Entrance once to each of the locations of the Baths of Diocletian, Palazzo Altemps and Crypta Balbi and twice to the Palazzo Massimo headquarters. Valid 1 week from the day of purchase
€ 12.00
€ 8.00
+ € 2.00 presale in case of online purchase
Reduced for Italian and European citizens aged between 18 and 25 years.
Free: see free conditions

MNR card
Unlimited access to the four locations of the Museum. Valid for 1 year from the day of purchase
MNR card € 25.00
Reduced MNR Card € 15.00

Agreement with

Roma Pass
What the agreement provides:

ROMA PASS
Reduced admission
by pre-purchasing "REDUCED ticket with Roma Pass" online on the > Coopculture Palazzo Altemps website

Description

The National Roman Museum – Altemps Palace is located within the fifteenth-century Palace built by Girolamo Riario and passed over to the Altemps family in 1568.
It belonged to the Holy See from 1887 and housed the Spanish College. It was purchased by the Italian State in 1982 to house the National Roman Museum. It was opened to the public in 1997 after complex restorations that brought to light important frescoes of the fourteenth-eighteenth century and exhibits extraordinary collections of ancient sculptures (Boncompagni Ludovisi, Altemps, Del Drago, Mattei, and Brancaccio) and an Egyptian collection.
The collection was started in the years 1621-1623 by cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, nephew of Pope Gregory the Fifteenth, for  his country-house on the Quirinal. In consequence of the urbanization of the zone performed at the end of the nineteenth century, the villa disappeared and in 1901 the Italian State purchased the most important part of the collection from the Boncompagni Ludovisi heirs and exhibited it firstly in the complex of the Thermae of Diocletian and lastly in Palazzo Altemps.
The sculptures, disseminated on the ground floor, the first floor, and the courtyard of the Palace, enrich all the spaces, rooms, halls, and corridors. Decorations of grapes and deer’s heads, heraldic emblem of the Altemps family, are recurrent on ceilings, trabeations, and vaults. The works exhibited include the group of the Galatian killing himself after having killed his wife (that constituted a single group with the Dying Galatian exhibited at the Capitoline Museums); the Sarcophagusand the Ludovisi Throne, Athena restored by Algardi and Ares completed by Bernini.

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Last checked: 2023-12-27 12:38