Art and Culture: for tourists and for those who stay in the city, this year too it will be possible to visit the permanent collections and the numerous and heterogeneous exhibitions underway in the Civic Museums of Rome throughout the weekend of 15, 16 and 17 August .
Starting from Capitoline Museums that host 1564-2014 MICHELANGELO. Meet a universal artist, documentary exhibition on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the death of the great Florentine Master. Continuing, not far away, al Museum of Rome in Palazzo Braschi, Common places. German landscape painters in Rome between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries tells how great was the passion for Rome of German artists between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, fascinated by its antiquities, by the Mediterranean brightness of the city, as well as by its countryside, its people and the surrounding ancient villages. Not only that, the museum itself also hosts Who is on next? Made in Italy. The new generation of fashion, an exclusive exhibition that traces the history and celebrates the creatives who took part in the fashion scouting project, organized by Altaroma in collaboration with Vogue Italia, which has as its objective the research and promotion of young creative talents of Made in Italy fashion.
Still in the historic center, it is worth a stop there Gallery of Modern Art in via Francesco Crispi, with its precious permanent collection of XNUMXth century art and the first half of the XNUMXth century enriched by the exhibition Female artists of the twentieth century between vision and Jewish identity, with about 150 works by Italian Jewish artists active in the capital at the beginning of the twentieth century.
In the bimillenary of the death of Augustus it is also possible to broaden the knowledge of the great princeps by visiting The art of command. The Legacy of Augustus, Ara Pacis Museum. The 12 sections of the exhibition, divided into different themes and historical periods, illustrate how emperors such as Charlemagne, Frederick II, Charles V or Napoleon, throughout history, have reinterpreted Augustus' "art of command", sometimes with very close or identical formulas.
Beyond the river, a stroll in Trastevere can include a visit to the Museum of Rome in Trastevere with its interesting photographic exhibitions: Gabriel Stable. Refugee Hotel – 50 shots taken by the photographer from 2006 to 2012 among refugees who have just landed in the United States – and Born Invisible, fifty photographs by the Canadian artist Sheila McKinnon on the legacy of silence, the inaudible presence of girls and women without a voice; neglected souls and beings, whose destinies are managed without their consent.
For those who prefer thecontemporary art, vast exhibition choice at MACRO, in its offices in via Nizza and Testaccio, while a walk in the shade of the pine trees of Villa Borghese can include a visit to the Carlo Bilotti Museum. Here is the exhibition Dreamings. Australian Aboriginal Art meets de Chirico and a path of sculptures and installations that leads the visitor towards the large terrace, where the latest works of the Italian-German artist EPVS are visible, in particular the installation It's My Way.
Always within a beautiful green oasis of the city, the museums of Villa Torlonia offer the exhibition of works by Paolo Antonio Paschetto. Artist, graphic designer and decorator between liberty and déco al Casino of the Princes, the first monograph held in Rome since 1938. Alla Casina delle Civette Arrigo Musti – Impop offers a contemporary artistic perspective that blends the classic and the modern through a provocative series of works, installations, majolica and design objects.
Finally, on the bicentenary of the battle of Leipzig (October 16-19, 1813) the Napoleonic Museum is planning a small exhibition centered on an important piano dating back to the second decade of the XNUMXth century belonging to the National Museum of Musical Instruments in Rome.
They are part of the Museums in the Municipality of Rome
Capitoline Museums; Montemartini plant; Trajan's Markets; Ara Pacis Museum; Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture; Museum of the Walls; Museum of the Roman Republic and Garibaldi memory; Museum of Rome; Napoleonic Museum; Gallery of Modern Art; MACROS; Carlo Bilotti Museum; Pietro Canonica Museum; Museum of Rome in Trastevere; Museums of Villa Torlonia, Civic Museum of Zoology
