The Museum of Roman Civilization is currently closed – along with the Planetarium Astronomical Museum – in anticipation of renovation work on the building to comply with regulations. Interventions aimed at improvement with a view to better usability of the Museum.
The Museum of Roman Civilization has a peculiar character in the vast and complex panorama of Rome’s Museums. Indeed, the material preserved in it – whose current content is the result of the combination of what was collected during the 1911 Archaeological Exhibition, the Museum of the Roman Empire, and the Augustan Exhibition of Romanity – is mainly composed of reproductions: casts of statues, busts, inscriptions, reliefs, and parts of buildings at life size; models that reconstruct monuments and architectural complexes of Rome and the provinces of the Roman Empire; evidence of the so-called “material culture” (furnishings, household objects, tools, and so on).
The Museum of Roman Civilization was opened to the public, at its current location, on April 21, 1955.
