The Museum of the Roman Civilization (Italian "Museo della Civiltà Romana") is a museum in Rome (Esposizione Universale Roma district), devoted to the aspects of the Ancient Roman civilization.

Its 59 sections illustrate the history of Roman civilization, from the origins to the 4th century, with models and reproductions, as well as original material.

It houses, among other things:

• two famous scale models of ancient Rome by Italo Gismondi (1887-1974), derived from the Forma Urbis Romae map and integrated with archeological discoveries - one as it was in the early Republican period and one in the era of Constantine I. This model is at 1:250 scale and is made of plaster. The model was begun in 1935 and completed in 1971.
• examples of late imperial and early Christian art
• a complete sequence of casts of the spiral reliefs round Trajan's Column, arranged in horizontal rows at ground level and so much easier to read!
• a reconstructed Roman library based on that in the Villa Adriana at Tivoli ^*

External links

• Museum web site
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Museo della civiltà romana

Museums in Rome