National Roman Museum, a destination that is actually made up of several destinations, as there are 4 locations set up to house the collections.

The National Roman Museum today has four locations, Baths of Diocletian, Palazzo Altemps, Palazzo Massimo and Crypta Balbi.

Each of which is the custodian of a cultural heritage that constitutes an important piece of the wide range of historical-artistic testimonies that for Rome represent a true landscape capable of distinguishing the Roman territory.

Museums was founded at the end of the XIX century as a place to store and exhibit works belonging to the city of Rome and relating to the historical period from the V century BC to the III century AD.

The collections of the Kircherian Museum and the Villa Ludovisi were welcomed here, as well as some of the archaeological finds discovered in the city of Rome.

The first location was inside the Baths of Diocletian in the cloister of the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri.

At the end of the XX century, the Museum also expanded to include Palazzo Massimo, Palazzo Altemps and Crypta Balbi.

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In 1575, when the need arose to create a Museum of Antiquities in the Capital of the Kingdom, the Baths of Diocletian, together with part of Michelangelo's cloister, were the locations selected to host it.

Today Palazzo Altemps houses numerous collections that make it the custodian of works.

Among which we mention, for example, the Group of Cupid and Psyche and the Statue of Ares, part of the Boncompagni Ludovisi collection, and the Statue of Dionysus and the Statue of Dacians from the Mattei collection.

Another building of the National Roman Museum is Palazzo Massimo.

Having become one of the seats of the Museum, it was assigned the role of custodian of the works found in the city of Rome and its surroundings.

Finally, to conclude this little journey into the heart of the National Roman Museum, we mention the atmosphere of Crypta Balbi, a world in which the dimension of archaeology is the protagonist.

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