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National Museum / Baths Museum Description

(Local Name: 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.

Hobbies & Activities category: Paintings, art collections; Standalone sculpture, statue or fountain

National Museum / Baths Museum Highlights

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)

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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",

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National Museum
Viale E. De Nicola 79
I-00186 Rome
Italy

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