Monday, October 10, 2016

PALACE OF THE MUSEUM OF ROMAN CIVILIZATION

PALAZZO DEL MUSEO DELLA CIVILTÀ ROMANA
Begun in the years 1939/41
Completed in 1952 by Pietro Aschieri (1889/1952), Domenico Bernardini (active 1939/52), Cesare Pascoletti (1898/1986) e Gino Peressutti (1883/1940) for FIAT and donated to the city of Rome to be used as a museum
Museum of Roman Civilization
Educational museum designed by Giulio Quirino Giglioli (1886/1957) and opened in 1955
In the vestibule “Bust of Giovanni Agnelli” by Edoardo Rubino (1871/1954)
FIFTY-NINE ROOMS filled exclusively with beautiful and interesting copies of original sculptures and well done and enlightening models of ancient Roman buildings
There is no original ancient piece but the fact that many of the copies are from originals that are scattered in museums all over the world, makes it unique, complete and perfect from the teaching point of view
Among the most important pieces:
“Model of Rome at the beginning of the fourth century AD” (200 m² - 2,150 square feet) by Italo Gismondi (1887/1974) in scale 1:250
Planetarium and Astronomy Museum
SIX ROOMS opened in 2004 with educational material on earth, moon, rocky planets, gaseous planets and interstellar space
ROOM I
Model of the Earth, its geological history and human attempts to conquer space
ROOM II
Model of the Moon, human missions to win it
ROOM III
Rocky Planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars with documentation of spacecraft Magellan, Galileo and Pioneer
SALA IV
Gaseous Planets: Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
Information on Europa, a satellite of Jupiter
ROOM V
Interstellar Space with stars, nebulae, galaxies, and the representation of the cosmic distance scale
ROOM VI
Multi-vision exhibit of the observation of the sky through the centuries, using the pictorial imagination of Giotto, Goya and Van Gogh and images of the Hubble Space Telescope

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