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Capitoline Museums
Opening hours
- Monday: 9:30 AM – 7:30 PM
- Tuesday: 9:30 AM – 7:30 PM
- Wednesday: 9:30 AM – 7:30 PM
- Thursday: 9:30 AM – 7:30 PM
- Friday: 9:30 AM – 7:30 PM
- Saturday: 9:30 AM – 7:30 PM
- Sunday: 9:30 AM – 7:30 PM
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Classical Roman, Greek & Egyptian sculptures & Renaissance art in Michelangelo-designed palaces.via Google
The world's oldest public museum, housing the iconic She-Wolf bronze and colossal statue fragments of Constantine.
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- Best visited in the late afternoon for views over the Roman Forum.
Reviews from Google
Hands down, the best museum I've seen in Rome. Easily spent 2+ hours here. Cafe is tasty and cheap. The basement level is worth a view - for the city view as well as seeing old grave stones. Every floor has something new and interesting to discover.
Truly amazing museum, well worth the visit. Statuary main hall is amazing with huge statue of Marcus Aurelius. Many amazing rooms, statues and more. Signs are in Italian and English only. Audio tour a must for other languages but was only modestly helpful for English beyond what was already on signs. Museum is on pricey side with only modestly helpful discount for students but well worth the price. Nice views from rooftop cafe and over forum from inside museum. Awesome Museum!
The Capitoline museums dominate the ancient Capitoline Hill, in an attractive space designed by Michaelangelo himself, with an impressive staircase flanked by massive statues leading up to the courtyard that has two large buildings that constitute the museum, linked by an ancient underground tunnel. The highlights for us were the original huge bronze statue of Emperor Hadrian on a horse and the enormous pieces of an ancient statue of Emperor Constantine. It's a spacious museum with lots of other things to see, including some of the foundations of the very significant ancient Roman temple of Jupiter/Giove/Jove, which crowned the hill for centuries. It's relatively uncrowded, and right next to some great (free) viewpoints overlooking the Roman and Imperial forums/fora. Well worth a visit in Rome.
I really enjoyed this museum. It was calm, rare for any experience in Rome. The museum is divided in 2 buildings connected by a gallery passage underneath - very cool. You also have some fantastic views from the terraces. Price is 19.50. I found the cashier/ticket ladies SUPER RUDE.
This museum is really worth seeing, don't get me wrong. But we've had such a bad experience that day. First, we had roma pass and ladies in the queue in front of us couldn't get their apps to connect to show the QR code and instead of serving us we had to wait until they get it by going outside and inside backwards and forwards because they couldn't think of making a screenshot. Then, there were 2 school trips, and even though we joined the queue having a few kids in front of us, the guard told us to go to the end and it took us 20 minutes until all kids went through security. When at the front, we saw some guy shaking hands with that security guard and after he joined the queue right next to us. There were about 20 people behind us and we pointed at the end and told that guy and the security guard the end is there! Special treatment for mates!? And last, we had to hang around in one area to let the school trips go to higher floors or leave altogether because they were making a lot of noise and the teachers didn't even tell them to behave and be quiet! Like animals! No respect. This behaviour is unacceptable in UK, Poland, and we had Chinese lady behind us in the queue, and other nations, they were all just looking shocked. We also completely missed the other building because there were no signs leading there.