The museum housed in the buildings around piazza del Campidoglio, all designed by Michelangelo, is the oldest public art collection in the world.

​It contains some of the most symbolical pieces of Roman art, such the Etruscan bronze She Wolf, the Brutus, the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, the Esquiline Venus, the dying Galata and many more.

The painting collection includes works by Giovanni Bellini, Caravaggio, Rubens, Titian.
From the Tabularium there is a splendid view over the Roman Forum.
A must see museum.

Created within the remains of the imposing Diocletian’s baths. It focus on primitive settlements in Rome’s region. Interesting section is dedicated to epigraphy and ancient daily life. Within the museum can be admired the splendid cloister projected by Michelangelo.
The spaces of Diocletian’s baths are visible too: the halls and the ‘natatio’ –swimming pool. In the hall 10 are kept 3 perfectly preserved toms from the roman times

 
Created within one of the most beautiful Renaissance villas, it hosts the collection of Etruscan works of art witnessing the complexity and skills of the Etruscan civilization flourishing in V century BC in the area north of Rome. 

The most didactic museum about ancient Rome with reproductions and casts illustrating the history of Rome from the beginning of the Roman times until the 6th century. Here are the casts of all relifs of Trajan column.
Noteworthy is the plastic of ancient Rome, which gives an idea of what Rome looked like

The Museum is housed inside the Porta S. Sebastian of the Aurelian walls and offers visitors an educational itinerary focused on this important defensive system created in the 3rd century by Emperor Aurelian, and constantly restored throughout the rest of Rome’s history.
The view from the gate’s towers is wonderful and it is possible to walk along the walkways of the soldiers too.

Once Emperor Hadrian’s mausoleum, the structure was constantly used during the middle ages as a fortress and prison to become, in the renaissance period, the residence and fortress of the popes.

It is a place where the different epochs of Rome’s history are visible.

The ring corridor that leads to the papal apartment and the funerary chambers dates back to the imperial ages.

The pope’s apartments were decorated by the greatest artists of the renaissance with exquisite frescoes.
​
The building became a museum in 1925 and contains a historical military museum, paintings, ceramics, sculptures and tapestries

​
A collection of works of art and paintings aimed to illustrate Rome’s history and culture between  the 17th and 19th centuries. it is located in one of the palaces overlooking Navona square. The interiors are beautiful and the view of the square charming. For history buffs.

Admission tickets includes the Museum and guided tour in the Tempio Maggiore and Tempio Spagnolo.
​
Works of art illustrating the traditions, religion and history of Rome’s Jewish community, one of the oldest in the world.

Manuscripts and memories of the journeys to Italy of the romantic poets and of their roman stay together with the memories of the last period in the life of John Keats.

it is housed in the house where John Keats lived the last months of his life. Very touching are the masks of his face, the one when he arrived, and the funerary mask after he died of tuberculosis few months later. He was only 25 years old.

A museum particularly dedicated to early middle age times and the transformations occurred in Rome after the fall of the roman empire. The underground remain of Balbo theater are very interesting too.