The National Museum of Oriental Art (Italian: Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale) is a small museum in Rome, Italy, dedicated to the arts of the Orient, from the Middle East to Japan.

In particular, the museum has a rather remarkable collection of artifacts from the Gandhara area. This is due the archaeological missions of the Italian Institute for Middle and Far East (IsMEO) to the Buddhist and protohistoric sites of Swat, namely the Butkara Stupa, Barikot, Panr, Aligrama among others. Other collections include items from the Palace of Mas'ud III and the Buddhist shrine of Tape Sardar at Ghazni, Afghanistan, the prehistoric city of Shahr-e Sokhteh, in eastern Iran, and the art objects from Nepal, Tibet and Ladakh collected by Giuseppe Tucci on his travels in 1928-1948.

The museum is located in via Merulana 248, and displays artifacts in 14 rooms. A few new rooms are expected to open soon. Photographs of the artifacts are allowed on application to the Director of the Museum only.

• Address

Via Merulana, 248 - 00185 - Roma

• Opening hours
         
  Tuesday - Friday 9:00 a.m. - 2.00 p.m.
• Closed
          
  Monday
• Phone

+39 06 46974832

• Website

www.museorientale.it

• Transport

By Bus
16,360,649,714 

By Underground
Line A - Vittorio Emanuele
Line B - Cavour

• Charges

Full ticket: euro 6;
Reduced ticket: euro 3

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