The Museum of the Roman Civilization (Italian "Museo della Civiltà Romana") is a museum in Rome (Esposizione Universale Roma district), devoted to the aspects of the Ancient Roman civilization.

It was designed by the architects Pietro Ascheri, D. Bernardini and Cesare Pascoletti^[1] (1939-1941). Its 59 sections illustrate the history of Roman civilization, from the origins to the 4th century, with models and reproductions, as well as original material. The premises are shared with a planetarium.

It houses, among other things:

• two famous scale models of ancient Rome by Italo Gismondi (1887-1974), derived from the Forma Urbis Romae map and integrated with archeological discoveries - one as it was in the early Republican period and one in the era of Constantine I. This model (il plastico) is at a 1:250 scale and is made of plaster. The model was begun in 1935 and completed in 1971.
• examples of late imperial and early Christian art
• a complete sequence of casts of the spiral reliefs round Trajan's Column, arranged in horizontal rows at ground level to facilitate reading.
• a reconstructed Roman library based on that in the Villa Adriana at Tivoli.
  

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• Address

Piazza G. Agnelli, 10 - 00144 Roma

• Opening hours
  Tuesday-Saturday 9.00am-2.00pm; Sunday 9.00am-1.30pm (the ticket office closes one hour in advance)
• Closed
  Monday, 25th December, 1st January, 1st May
• Phone

06 06 08 every day 9.00-22.30

• Website

http://en.museociviltaromana.it/

• Transport

• Charges

Ordinary entrance tickets
Ordinary euro 6,50
Reduced euro 4,50

Integrated entrance ticket to Museo della Civiltà Romana + Planetario + Museo Astronomico
Ordinary euro 8,50
Reduced euro 6,50

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