Time.news – Roman holidays at the museum. For two weeks, in fact, until 8 January, it will be possible to discover the cultural wonders of the Eternal City by getting lost in initiatives and proposals. In fact, during the Christmas holidays it will be possible visit the archaeological areas of the city starting from the Colosseum and the Imperial Forums, with access from 9.00 to 16.30, last admission one hour before, and the Circus Maximus, from 9.30 to 16.00 with last admission at 15.00. Then there are the museums.
Until 8 January it will still be open to visitors at the Bramante Cloister ‘Crazy! Madness in contemporary art’, while the great Van Gogh exhibition at Palazzo Bonaparte continues until March.
Tiburtina station will host ‘The World of Bansky’ until 29 January. Same closing date also for ‘Domiziano Imperatore. Hate and love’ at the Capitoline Museums, while at the Temple of Romulus you can immerse yourself in ‘The journey of Aeneas. From Troy to Rome’. Continue to Centrale Montemartini ‘Colori dei Romani.
The mosaics from the Capitoline Collections’. Those who prefer contemporary arts, on the other hand, can visit the new technological, experimental and interactive exhibition of the MAXXI ‘What a Wonderful World’. The exhibition-event ‘Lucio Dalla – Even if time passes’, inaugurated last September 21 at the Ara Pacis Museum, has been extended until 5 February.
The retrospective underway at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna is instead dedicated to ‘Pasolini the painter’. The rooms on the ground floor of the Museum of Rome host ‘Quotidian’, a series of exhibitions conceived and produced by the Quadriennale to explore the most significant orientations of Italian art in the 21st century.
Art is also reflection. And then space for art installations ‘Memini me. Remember me at the Villa of Maxentius, a choral work in memory of the victims of femicide with the stories of a year: from November 2021 to November 2022. Space for exhibitions with the traditional Christmas appointment in the Museums promoted by the Rome Capital Museum System which until 8 January 2023, offers not only exhibitions but also events and educational activities.
All the Civic Museums will be open on 31 December until 2 pm and on 1 January 2023 for the whole day. On the other hand, only the Capitoline Museums, the Ara Pacis Museum and Trajan’s Markets will remain open today, December 26, with ordinary hours. The initiatives and educational activities offered are original and numerous. Like today’s one at 11 at the Capitoline Museums: “Monsters of yesterday and today. Observation, narration and invention of fantastic creatures”.
There is also room for those who love to retrace history: on 27 December at 11 am at the Museum of the Roman Republic guided tour of the museum “From the Roman Republic of 1849 to World War I. The long birth of a nation”. On the same date, at 11, a guided tour to discover the toponyms of the Parione and Regola districts among the city’s churches, monuments, palaces and courtyards with “Why is it called that? Streets, alleys, squares tell us about people, legends and secrets”, visit with LIS interpreter and departure from piazza Benedetto Cairoli.