The Museum of Rome in Trastevere is part of the Museums in the Municipality and is located in the former seventeenth-century Carmelite convent in the Trastevere district in Rome.
Passed to the Municipality after the Unification of Italy, the convent hosted the pediatric sanatorium named after Ettore Marchiafava since 1918.
Restored between 1969 and 1973 it was reopened to the public in 1977 with the denomination of "Museum of Folklore and Romanesque Poets"; the permanent exhibition was made up of materials from the Museum of the city of Rome at the former Pastificio Pantanella at the Mouth of Truth (1930-1939), then exhibited at Palazzo Braschi, relating to scenes of Roman daily life between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries.
These are fairly heterogeneous materials - painted from the late eighteenth century to the whole of the nineteenth century, Roman scenes and scenes of the crafts of the nineteenth century reconstructed with life-size mannequins, the Roman nativity scene set in the eighteenth century on a sketch by Angelo Urbani del Fabbretto, at which is inspired by the crib installed every year on the Spanish steps, the talking statues of Rome, the watercolors of "Roma sparita" by Ettore Roesler Franz, and the so-called "Trilussa room" (materials found in the Trilussa studio, but rearranged several years after death) - whose common thread is the attempt to preserve the memory of some aspects of the city which were largely lost already from the unification of Italy.
The museum was further renovated (and reopened in 2000), to create spaces for temporary exhibitions and events on the ground floor.
Museum of Rome in Trastevere
Address: Piazza di S. Egidio, 1b, 00153
Phone: 06 0608
Site:
http://www.museodiromaintrastevere.it/Location inserted by
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