CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS

Have you ever visited the Capitoline Museums in Rome?

Located in Piazza del Campidoglio and known as the oldest public museum in the world, it dates back to 1471, when Pope Sisto IV gave the roman people a first set of bronze statues.

Around the middle of the eighteenth century, Pope Benedict XIV created a picture gallery.

A considerable quantity of archaeological material was also added at the end of the nineteenth century when Rome became the capital of Italy and new excavations were carried out whilst two completely new districts were created for the expanding city.

Nowadays the museum hosts authentic treasures of art and archaeology, like paintings of Caravaggio and Guercino, the statues of Galata Morente and Venere Capitolina, the incredible bust of Medusa from the great sculptor  Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and the iconic Lupa Capitolina, the she-wolf suckling the roman twins Romolus and Remus that became a real symbol of the Eternal City.