1883/87 Camillo Pistrucci (1856/27) in
Neo-Renaissance style as home to a college for Jesuits until 1960, on the site
of the Palace of Sixtus V at the Baths, the last building to be demolished of
the large Villa Peretti Montalto which had become property of the
Massimo family
The Italian
state bought it in 1981 and had it restored to convert it into a museum by Costantino Dardi (1936/91)
The ground
floor was opened to the public in 1995 and the whole museum in 1998
National Roman Museum
It is made
out of five different museums in five different locations. The other four
are Palazzo Massimo, Crypta Balbi, Museo delle Terme and Museo Palatino
Established
in 1889 with headquarters in the Baths of Diocletian and then enlarged with the
antiquities of the Kircher Museum and of the Ludovisi collection
GROUND
FLOOR - Statuary of the Republican and Augustan period
Room
of passage
“Colossal polychrome
Minerva” of
the Augustan period, from the Aventine Hill, perhaps near the site of the
Temple of Minerva seat of the guilds
She is
represented sitting as Minerva patron of craftsmen and of the children of
school age
