FREE EXHIBITIONS IN CIVIC MUSEUMS

Name: FREE exhibitions at the civic museums of Rome on January 1, 2024
Start: 2024-01-01T11:00+2:00
End: 2024-01-01T16:30+2:00
Location: FREE exhibitions at the civic museums of Rome on January 1, 2024

Program for January 1st.

– Opening hours Open from 11 am to 8 pm (last entry one hour before): Capitoline Museums, Trajan’s Markets – Museum of the Imperial Fora, Ara Pacis Museum, Museum of Rome – Palazzo Braschi, Centrale Montemartini, Museums of Villa Torlonia (except Serra Moresca), Museum of Rome in Trastevere, Civic Zoology Museum, Modern Art Gallery.

– Open from 11 am to 4 pm (last entry one hour before): Napoleon Museum, Roman Republic and Garibaldi Memory Museum, Carlo Bilotti Museum – Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Pietro Canonica Museum, Walls Museum, Casal de’ Pazzi Museum, Serra Moresca, Museum of Ancient Sculpture Giovanni Barracco, Villa of Massenzio, Archaeological Area of Circo Massimo, Circo Maximo Experience, Sacred Area of Largo Argentina.

– Open from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm (last entry one hour before): Archaeological Area of the Imperial Fora.

Exhibitions

CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS

(Piazza del Campidoglio, 1)

FIDIA

The first monographic exhibition dedicated to the greatest sculptor of the classical age. An extraordinary journey into the life and work of the artist, with over 100 works, some exhibited for the first time, including archaeological finds, paintings, manuscripts, drawings, and multimedia installations. “No one will ever surpass Phidias” Auguste Rodin, L’art, 1911

THE DROWNED. ROME, OCTOBER 16, 1943

Eighty years after October 16, 1943, the exhibition, curated by Yael Calò and Lia Toaff, commemorates the tragic event through the display of documents, newspapers, drawings, photographs, and objects of daily life of people – women, men, children – arrested that day and never returned.

VRBS ROMA

On display for the first time, the golden glass with the personification of the city of Rome, found during the excavations for the construction of Metro C at Porta Metronia.

THE FOUND FRAGMENT. THE HAND OF THE COLOSSUS OF CONSTANTINE FROM THE CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS AND THE BRONZE FINGER FROM THE LOUVRE

The hand of the bronze colossus of Constantine from the Capitoline Museums, reassembled with the fragment of the bronze finger from the Louvre Museum, exhibited thanks to the generous availability of its President-Director Jean-Luc Martinez. The hand is displayed alongside the other bronzes, already in Lateran, donated to the Roman people by Pope Sixtus IV in 1471.

CAESAR’S HERITAGE AND THE CONQUEST OF TIME

The multimedia exhibition project tells in an evocative and engaging way the events and protagonists of the history of ancient Rome through the Fasti Capitolini, the extraordinary marble calendars that narrate the story of Rome from its origins to the dawn of the imperial age.

ROME OF THE REPUBLIC. THE TALE OF ARCHAEOLOGY

Second chapter – after the exhibition “The Rome of the Kings” in 2018 – of the great cycle “The Tale of Archaeology,” based mainly on the collections owned by the municipality stored in the warehouses and museums of the Superintendence.

THE COLORS OF THE ANCIENT. SANTARELLI MARBLES AT THE CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS

An extensive overview of the use of colored marbles, from their origins to the 20th century, through a refined selection of pieces from the Santarelli Foundation.

ARA PACIS MUSEUM

(Lungotevere in Augusta, corner of via Tomacelli)

HELMUT NEWTON. LEGACY

Exhibition dedicated to one of the most beloved photographers of all time with over 200 shots, 80 of which are exhibited for the first time in this review.

TRAIANO’S MARKETS – MUSEUM OF THE IMPERIAL FORA

(Via IV Novembre, 94)

IMAGO AUGUSTI. TWO NEW PORTRAITS OF AUGUSTUS FROM ROME AND ISERNIA

On display are two unpublished portrait heads of the Emperor Augustus recently discovered during archaeological investigations conducted in Rome and Isernia.

MUSEUMS OF VILLA TORLONIA – CASINA DELLE CIVETTE

(Via Nomentana, 70)

IN THE SIGN OF CAMBELLOTTI. VIRGILIO RETROSI ARTIST AND ARTISAN

Exhibition dedicated to Virgilio Retrosi (Rome 1892-1975), an artist present in the Capitoline collections with the 14 parade plates dedicated to the historic Districts of Rome and preserved at the Museum of Rome.

MUSEUMS OF VILLA TORLONIA – CASINO DEI PRINCIPI

(Via Nomentana, 70)

FERRARI SHEPPARD-CRUCIBLE

The American artist presents eighteen works, eleven of which were created specifically for the Roman exhibition, exhibited in the various rooms of the Casino dei Principi.

MUSEUM OF ROME

(Piazza San Pantaleo, 10 – Piazza Navona, 2)

VIS À VIS. TENERANI SPINA. DIALOGUE IN IMAGES

The exhibition presents twenty-five plaster portraits by Pietro Tenerani, one of the most significant sculptors of 19th-century Italy, reinterpreted by Luigi Spina, a great interpreter of contemporary art photography.

EVERYDAY

The two rooms on the ground floor of the Museum of Rome are open to the public with a schedule of exhibitions, conceived and produced by the Quadriennale, with the aim of delving into some significant trends in contemporary Italian art. “EVERYDAY” is structured in two exhibition cycles, “LANDSCAPE” and “PORTFOLIO.”

MUSEUM OF ROME IN TRASTEVERE

(Piazza S. Egidio, 1/b)

PHILIPPE HALSMAN. LAMPO DI GENIO

Exhibition dedicated to Philippe Halsman, one of the most original and enigmatic portraitists of the 20th century. On display are over a hundred images of various formats, in color and black and white, selected by Contrasto and the Halsman Archive in New York, covering his entire career.

ILLUSTRATIONS FOR NONEXISTENT BOOKS. ARTISTS OF GIORGIO MANGANELLI

An extraordinary glimpse into the cultural life in Rome and Milan, between the 1960s and 1980s, reconstructed through the collaboration between Giorgio Manganelli, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, and eleven artists of his time: Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti, Carol Rama, Toti Scialoja, Gastone Novelli, Achille Perilli, Franco Nonnis, Gianfranco Baruchello, Giovanna Sandri, Giosetta Fioroni, and Luigi Serafini.

LOU DEMATTEIS. A JOURNEY BACK

The visual diary, expressed through photography, of four trips that the American-Italian photojournalist Lou Dematteis made to Italy in 1972, 1977, 1979, and 1980.

MODERN ART GALLERY

(Via Francesco Crispi, 24)

PRAMPOLINI WORKSHOP #2. UNPUBLISHED SKETCHES, DRAWINGS, AND PROJECTS FROM FUTURISM TO ART CLUB

An exclusive project aimed at bringing attention to the artistic multilingualism and interdisciplinary nature of Enrico Prampolini, from the 1930s to the 1950s, the peak of the artist’s career and project exuberance. On display are works, drawings, graphic materials, and documents that are little known and/or completely unpublished, coming from the various donations of the Prampolini heirs to the Capitolina Superintendence.

THE DANCE STUDENT OF VENANZO CROCETTI. THE RETURN

After about two years of careful and specialized restoration by the technicians of the ICR, the sculpture by Venanzo Crocetti (1913-2003) returns to the GAM. The exhibition is the result of a long process of enhancement and sharing of intentions conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture – Central Institute for Restoration and the Venanzo Crocetti Foundation.

POETRY WATCHES YOU. TRIBUTE TO GRUPPO 70 (1963-2023)

On May 24, 1963, the conference “Art and Communication” opened in Florence, at the Forte del Belvedere, considered by scholars the official founding act of Gruppo 70. Sixty years after that event, the Modern Art Gallery organizes a tribute exhibition for those artists who determined its foundation.

STENLEX. REBIRTH – SITE-SPECIFIC ARTISTIC INTERVENTION

The site-specific stencil poster intervention with the exciting title “Rebirth,” specially created for the Gallery in collaboration with Wunderkammern Gallery, is realized on the walls of the cloister-garden.

MUSEUM OF THE WALLS

(Via di Porta San Sebastiano,18)

GARBATELLA. THE HEART OF A NEIGHBORHOOD IN 100 BEATS OF LIGHT. SHOTS BY ZHANNA STANKOVYCH

Forty-two photographs and three photographic collages tell the story of Garbatella: the architectural virtues and the stories of the people who, with their dedication, have changed the face of this characteristic Roman neighborhood.

PIETRO CANONICA MUSEUM

(Viale Pietro Canonica)

EL DORADO

The “gold fund” in the works of contemporary Italian artists: Renata Boero, Paolo Canevari, Valerio D’Angelo, Gianni Dessì, Rä di Martino, Flavio Favelli, Sabina Mirri, Elisa Montessori, Luigi Ontani, and Alfredo Pirri.

CARLO BILOTTI MUSEUM – ARANCIERA DI VILLA BORGHESE

(Via Fiorello La Guardia 6 – Viale dell’Aranciera 4)

BARBARA DOSER AND HOFSTETTER KURT TENSE_INTENSE

Barbara Doser and Hofstetter Kurt outline a fascinating exhibition path dotted with videos, installations, prints of images, projections, and sculptures, whose guiding thread is the interweaving and simultaneity of opposites.

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