The Polo Museale del Lazio (literally 'Museum Center of

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's Ministry of Cultural Heritage. Its seat is in

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in the

Palazzo Venezia The Palazzo Venezia or Palazzo Barbo (), formerly Palace of St. Mark, is a palazzo (palace) in central Rome, Italy, just north of the Capitoline Hill. The original structure of this great architectural complex consisted of a modest medieval hous ...

History

The office was established on August 29, 2014 and started to work on December 11, 2014, acquiring and organizing museums, institutions and archaeological areas previously managed by eleven offices. Like the others Poli Museali of other regions of Italy, it depends from the Direzione Generale Musei of the same MIBACT. The Polo Museale manages and promotes Lazio's museums, institutions, archaeological areas and other cultural sites belonging or given over to the Italian State. An important function of the office is to promote the so-called Art Bonus, a new model of tax relief connected to the world of arts which was introduced in 2014. The office defines common strategies and aims, promotes the integration and organization of museological and cultural itineraries, working together with the Segretario Regionale.

Museums, institutions, and cultural sites

The Polo Museale del Lazio manages 43 museological institutes: their chronology spans from antiquity, the Middle Ages and the modern age to the contemporary age. Some of them deal with the world of anthropology, but the major weight of the office shifts on archaeology, history, art and architecture. A total of some 10 million per year visit institutions which are directly managed by the Polo Museale del Lazio, making it one of the most important institutions of its kind. The most visited sites are the

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Castel Sant'Angelo The Mausoleum of Hadrian, usually known as Castel Sant'Angelo (; English: ''Castle of the Holy Angel''), is a towering cylindrical building in Parco Adriano, Rome, Italy. It was initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausol ...

, the Abbey of

Montecassino Monte Cassino (today usually spelled Montecassino) is a rocky hill about southeast of Rome, in the Latin Valley, Italy, west of Cassino and at an elevation of . Site of the Roman town of Casinum, it is widely known for its abbey, the first h ...

Villa d'Este The Villa d'Este is a 16th-century villa in Tivoli, near Rome, famous for its terraced hillside Italian Renaissance garden and especially for its profusion of fountains. It is now an Italian state museum, and is listed as a UNESCO World Herita ...

and

Hadrian's Villa Hadrian's Villa ( it, Villa Adriana) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising the ruins and archaeological remains of a large villa complex built c. AD 120 by Roman Emperor Hadrian at Tivoli outside Rome. The site is owned by the Republic of ...

. The following is an alphabetical list of museums, institutions and cultural sites directly managed by the Polo Museale del Lazio (parentheses indicates the province): * Casamari Abbey – Veroli (

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) *

Fossanova Abbey Fossanova Abbey, earlier Fossa Nuova, is a church that was formerly a Cistercian abbey located near the railway-station of Priverno in Latina, Italy, about south-east of Rome. History Fossanova is one of the finest examples of early Burgundian ...

– Priverno (

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) * Montecassino Abbey – Cassino (Frosinone) * Grottaferrata Abbey – Grottaferrata (

) * Area Archeologica di

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– Tivoli (Rome) *

Altare della Patria The Victor Emmanuel II National Monument ( it, Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II), also known as Vittoriano or Altare della Patria ("Altar of the Fatherland"), is a large national monument built between 1885 and 1935 to honour Victor E ...

– Rome * Basilica di San Cesareo de Appia – Rome * Basilica di San Francesco – Viterbo * Cappella dell’Annunziata – Cori (Latina) * Casa di San Tommaso – Aquino (Frosinone) * Certosa di Trisulti – Collepardo (Frosinone) * Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore – Tuscania (

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) * Chiesa di San Pietro – Tuscania (Viterbo) *

Galleria Spada The Galleria Spada is a museum in Rome, which is housed in the Palazzo Spada on Piazza Capo di Ferro. The palazzo is also famous for its façade and for the forced perspective gallery by Francesco Borromini. The gallery exhibits paintings from ...

– Rome *

Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente The Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente (IsIAO), known in English as the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient, was established in Rome in 1995, as the result of the merging of (IsMEO) with the Istituto Italo-Africano (IIA). It clo ...

(former) museum collection * Monastero di San Benedetto Sacro Speco – Subiaco (Rome) * Monastero di Santa Scolastica – Subiaco (Rome) * Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II (

Vittoriano The Victor Emmanuel II National Monument ( it, Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II), also known as Vittoriano or Altare della Patria ("Altar of the Fatherland"), is a large national monument built between 1885 and 1935 to honour Victor Em ...

) – Rome * Museo Archeologico dell'Agro Falisco e Forte Sangallo – Civita Castellana (Viterbo) * Museo Archeologico Nazionale – Civitavecchia (Rome) * Museo Archeologico Nazionale e Area Archeologica – Sperlonga (Latina) * Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Palestrina e Santuario della Fortuna Primigenia (Rome) * Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi per le Arti Decorative, il Costume e la Moda dei secoli XIX e XX – Rome * Museo dell'Alto Medioevo – Rome * Museo delle Navi Romane di Nemi (Rome) * Museo Giacomo Manzù – Ardea (Rome) * Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen – Rome * Museo Mario Praz – Rome * Museo Nazionale Archeologico Cerite –

Cerveteri Cerveteri () is a town and ''comune'' of northern Lazio in the region of the Metropolitan City of Rome. Known by the ancient Romans as Caere, and previously by the Etruscans as Caisra or Cisra, and as Agylla (or ) by the Greeks, its modern name de ...

(Rome) * Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale “Giuseppe Tucci” – Rome * Museo Nazionale degli Strumenti Musicali – Rome *

Museo nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia The Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia is a state museum in Rome (Italy), housed in the palace of the same name together with the important Library of Archaeology and Art History. Collections The Museum preserves paintings by artists such ...

e Biblioteca di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte – Rome * Museo Nazionale di

– Rome * Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Rocca Albornoz – Viterbo *

Museo Nazionale Etrusco The National Etruscan Museum ( it, Museo Nazionale Etrusco) is a museum of the Etruscan civilization, housed in the Villa Giulia in Rome, Italy. History The villa was built for Pope Julius III, for whom it was named. It remained in papal prope ...

Villa Giulia The Villa Giulia is a villa in Rome, Italy. It was built by Pope Julius III in 1551–1553 on what was then the edge of the city. Today it is publicly owned, and houses the Museo Nazionale Etrusco, a collection of Etruscan art and artifacts. Hi ...

– Rome * Museo Nazionale Preistorico ed Etnografico “Luigi Pigorini” – Rome * Palazzo Altieri – Oriolo Romano (Viterbo) *

Palazzo Farnese Palazzo Farnese () or Farnese Palace is one of the most important High Renaissance List of palaces in Italy#Rome, palaces in Rome. Owned by the Italian Republic, it was given to the French government in 1936 for a period of 99 years, and cur ...

– Caprarola (Viterbo) *

– Roma * Santuario Madonna della Quercia – Viterbo * Torre di Cicerone – Arpino (Frosinone) *

– Tivoli (Roma) * Villa Giustiniani – Bassano Romano (Viterbo) * Villa Lante Bagnaia – Viterbo

References

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External links

Official website
2014 establishments in Italy . Organisations based in Rome Government of Lazio