Rome is a Yellow Zone: Museums, Archaeological Parks, and Exhibitions Reopen

Culture is back to life: after a due suspension, the green light comes to open museums, archaeological parks, and exhibitions in the yellow zone to the public.

Release time : 2021-02-01 10:03:27

source : turismoroma

Culture is back to life: after a due suspension, the green light comes to open museums, archaeological parks, and exhibitions in the yellow zone to the public.

All places of culture open only from Monday to Friday, excluding holidays, provided that use methods are guaranteed referring to the size and characteristics of the premises. Please, avoid gatherings, respect interpersonal distance, and wear a mask.

Admissions are subject to limitations and with compulsory electronic reservations and ticketing.

Let's see in detail some of the most anticipated reopenings.

At the Capitoline Museums, the exhibition The Torlonia marbles. Collecting Masterpieces continues. Over 90 works selected from the 620 marbles cataloged and belonging to the Torlonia collection, the most prestigious private collection of ancient sculptures: significant for the history of art, excavations, restoration, taste, museography, archaeological studies. Until 06/29/2021.

The exhibition Il tempo di Caravaggio. Capolavori della collezione di Roberto Longhi was prolonged. On display, the famous Boy Bitten by a Lizard by Caravaggio and over forty paintings by artists, who, in the 17th century, were influenced to varying degrees by his figurative revolution. Until 02/05/2021.

At the Ara Pacis Museum, the only Italian stop in the monographic exhibition Josef Koudelka. Radici, dedicated to the great Czech photographer from the Magnum Photos agency. He offers his photographic and artistic interpretation of some of the most important archaeological sites of Roman and Greek culture and tries to restore their authentic beauty. Until 05/16/2021.

The Trajan’s Markets - Museum of the Imperial Fora celebrate the bicentenary of Napoleon's death with Napoleon and the myth of Rome. Of the great Corsican leader, the exhibition reveals an aspect little known to the general public, namely, his excavation activity in Rome as a fundamental instrument of imperial propaganda, aimed at the model of