Private Tour - National Museum of Palazzo Massimo

Overview

An incredible Museum that will give you the opportunity to discover the ancient Roman habits, traditions and institutions. We will understand the way they used calendars, the way they used to portrait their heroes and the way they decorated their houses, admiring amazing frescoes and mosaics of the past. We will understand how they could venerate their deceased ancestors and we will indagate the religious aspect of the ancient Romans. Walking in the city of Rome you can see the ruins of the buildings of the past: it's time to understand the way these buildings where used, decorated and experienced by the the ancient ones. Some of the masterpieces of the Museum: - Roman calendar - Boxer at Rest - Portrait of Octavian Augustus - The painted Villa of Livia (wife of Octavian Augustus) - Portonaccio Sarcophagus - Heroic Nudity - Marble statues of Roman and Greek Gods