The Museum of Rome in Trastevere

If you want to discover the most important aspects of everyday Roman life from the end of the eighteenth century to the second half of the twentieth century, the Museum of Rome in Trastevere is the right place to be. In fact, this museum has a collection of paintings, prints, drawings and watercolors, including the famous Roma pittoresca series by Ettore Roesler Franz, evoking costumes, folk dances, feasts and secular, religious and ancient professions, all represented through a refined exhibition, housed in the former monastery of St. Egidio.

Many charming pieces of artwork are part of this fascinating and unusual museum, such as a nativity of the nineteenth-century, materials belonged to the poet Trilussa, photographs of contemporary authors such as Mario Carbone and Emilio Gentilini, a Night View of Rome by Amedeo Simonetti, Rome from Monte Mario by Salomon Corrodi, an Apse of St. John Lateran made by Guillaume Frédéric Romny, and a terracotta sculpture by Achille Pinelli.