PALAZZO DEL MUSEO DELLA
CIVILTÀ ROMANA
Begun in the years 1939/41
Completed in 1952 by Pietro Aschieri
(1889/1952), Domenico Bernardini (active
1939/52), Cesare Pascoletti (1898/1986) e Gino Peressutti (1883/1940) for FIAT and donated to
the city of Rome to be used as a museum
Museum of Roman Civilization
Educational
museum designed by Giulio Quirino Giglioli
(1886/1957) and opened in 1955
In the
vestibule “Bust of Giovanni Agnelli” by Edoardo Rubino
(1871/1954)
FIFTY-NINE ROOMS
filled exclusively with beautiful and interesting copies of original sculptures
and well done and enlightening models of ancient Roman buildings
There is no
original ancient piece but the fact that many of the copies are from originals
that are scattered in museums all over the world, makes it unique, complete and
perfect from the teaching point of view
Among the most important pieces:
Planetarium
and Astronomy Museum
SIX ROOMS opened
in 2004 with educational material on earth, moon, rocky planets, gaseous
planets and interstellar space
ROOM I
Model of
the Earth, its geological history and human attempts to conquer space
ROOM II
Model of
the Moon, human missions to win it
ROOM III
Rocky
Planets: Mercury,
Venus, Earth and Mars with documentation of spacecraft Magellan, Galileo and
Pioneer
SALA IV
Gaseous
Planets: Saturn,
Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
Information
on Europa, a satellite of Jupiter
ROOM V
Interstellar
Space with stars,
nebulae, galaxies, and the representation of the cosmic distance scale
ROOM VI
Multi-vision
exhibit of the observation of the sky through the
centuries, using the pictorial imagination of Giotto, Goya and Van Gogh and
images of the Hubble Space Telescope
