Rome - National Museum (Baths Museum) Museo Nazionale Romano (Museo delle Terme)
The Museo Nazionale Romano, housed in part of the Baths of Diocletian, has the largest collection of ancient art in Rome after that of the Vatican museums. On the first floor of the Museum are a collection of mosaics, stucco work and frescoes and wall paintings from the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta.
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Things to See
Ludovisi Collection
The Museum contains the Ludovisi Collection, with the "Ludovisi Throne" (fifth century B.C.) and statues of the "Dying Galacian", Ares, Athena Parthenos (a copy of Phidias' statue in the Parthenon), Juno and Orestes and Electra. The Great Cloister (Grande Chiostro) of 1565, with a fountain, contains marble sculpture, architectural fragments, sarcophagi, mosaic and inscriptions.
Sculptures
Among the most notable exhibits are pre-Christian and Christian sarcophagi and a great range of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman sculpture, including a fine Apollo, a Nereid, the "Young Dancing Girl", the "Discus Thrower" from Porziano Castle, the "Wounded Niobe" from the Gardens of Sallust (fifth century B.C.), the Venus of Cyrene (fourth century B.C.), a "Defeated Boxer" (third century B.C.), the "Maiden of Anzio", the Lancellotti "Discus Thrower" (an excellent copy of the statue by Myron), the Ostia Altar, etc.
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