Museo di Roma – Palazzo Braschi Site Features

The staircase on Caligula's columns

Eighteen red granite columns from the gallery the emperor built on the bank of the Tiber, carrying a Neoclassical staircase, with ancient sculpture and stuccoes by Luigi Acquisti on the myth of Achilles. Reached from the oval hall inside the Via San Pantaleo entrance.

The windows over Piazza Navona

The museum looks straight down onto the square and onto Sant'Agnese in Agone. It is the best free thing in the building and people walk past it looking for paintings.

Piranesi and Panini

Two of the great image-makers of Rome — Piranesi's engravings and Panini's painted views — in the museum that exists to record what the city looked like.

Nicola Salvi

The designer of the Trevi Fountain is among the artists represented here.

Muñoz's 5,000 sheets

The founding director Antonio Muñoz left a collection of some five thousand drawings, engravings and old illustrated books, which is much of the reason a museum founded to document the city became an art museum instead.

Canova, Batoni, Reynolds, Caffi

Antonio Canova, Pompeo Batoni, Joshua Reynolds and Ippolito Caffi, along with Giuseppe Ceracchi, Felice Giani, Bartolomeo Pinelli, Francesco Mochi, Giuseppe Bottani, Lievin Cruyl and Pietro Labruzzi.

Pasquino, outside

At the palace's south-west corner stands the statue of Pasquino, the battered ancient torso Romans have been attaching anonymous satirical verses to for five centuries. It costs nothing and it is ten steps away.

The chapel by Valadier

Giuseppe Valadier designed the chapel on the piano nobile, and the white marble front of the church of San Pantaleo outside.