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The National Museum Roman is an archeological museum of Rome , that accommodates collections checking the story and the culture of the town in Roman period.

The museum venne founded in 1889 (and inaugurated the successive year), to collect the antiquity of the town dated between the V century to. C. and the III century d. C. The archeological collections Romen of the Museum met yourselves Kircheriano and the numerous you that go discovering in the town later on to the decisive transformations city planning from the new role of capital of the Kingdom of Italy, in a first moment destined to to be exhibited in an "of the tiber Museum", ever realized. In 1901 venne gained from the State the villa Ludovisi and the important ancient collection of sculptures was transferred to the museum.

The seat was established in the environments of the cloister built to leave from the Sixteenth century in the baths of Diocleziano. The improvement of the ancient thermal environments was started in occasion of the International exhibition of 1911 and the preparation was completed in the years 1930.

In the years 1990 a radical transformation, that subdivided the works between four different seats espositive was started. You indicate

The historical seat, at present includes sculptures and material funerari or of I furnish (outside gardens, the "Garden of the Sixteenth century" and l'" porch", the "Chiostro of Michelangelo), it" section epigrafica", in the salt previously destined to the masterpieces, and it "section protostorica", to the first plan of the chiostro. The ancient thermal salt still preserved, are used mainly for temporary exhibitions, in wait of a definitive preparation for the you of some important urban excavations. They do part of the museum seat also l'" Hall octagon", riallestita in 1991 (sculptures provenienti from the Roman baths) and the adjoining one "Hall of Sant' Isidoro", former-hat.

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The palace, built between 1883 and 1887 from the architect Camillo Pistrucci like seat for the college for the Jesuits, was gained therefore from the State in 1981 and restored. The museum seat was inaugurated in 1995 and completed in 1998. It accommodates it "ancient section of art" (slow works of period-republican, imperial and slow-ancient) and it "section of coin collecting and jewelry store".

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The palace, built in the XV century from the family Riario and renewed from the cardinal Mark Sittico Altemps in the XVI century to work of Martino Longhi, was gained from the State in 1982 and inaugurated in 1997. It accommodates the section of "story of the collezionismo" (sculptures of the collection Boncompagni-Ludovisi, of the collection Mattei and of other ancient collections) and it "ancient egyptian collection" of the museum (works provenienti from the sanctuaries of the deity eastern). The palace includes also the ancient private theater, at present space used to temporary exhibitions, and the church of Sant ' Aniceto.

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The museum seat, inaugurated in 2001, is accommodated in some salt restored some urban block built above the ancient Roman building, a quadriportico to the shoulders of the theater of Lucio Cornelio Balbo. In the first section ("Archeology and story of an urban landscape") come presented the results of the archeological excavations conducts to leave from 1981 in the complex building one, included the restive ancient messengers in light. A second section ("The town of Rome from the antiquity to the medieval age. Archeology and story") illustrates the life and the transformations of the town between the V and the X century.