Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco

Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco

The Piccola Farnesina, seat of the museum.
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Established	1948 (1948)
Location	Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 166/A 00186 Rome, Italy
Coordinates	41°53′48.4″N 12°28′21.4″E / 41.896778°N 12.472611°E / 41.896778; 12.472611
Type	Art museum, Historic site
Website	www.museobarracco.it

The Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco (English: Giovanni Barracco Museum of Antique Sculpture) is a museum in Rome that displays the antiquities collection of Giovanni Barracco. After amassing an impressive private collection throughout his travels as a member of the Italian parliment, Barracco donated the works to the city of Rome in 1902. Since 1948, the collection has been housed in the Renaissance-era Palazzetto Le Roy, which has been expanded underground with archaeological excavations of an ancient Roman domus. Today, the museum remains part of the Musei in Commune network and is free to the public.

Among the works are Egyptian, Assyrian, and Phoenician art, as well as Greek sculptures of the classical period. The 400 works of the collection are divided according to the civilization and are displayed in nine rooms, on the first and second floors, while the ground floor contains a small reception area.

On the first floor Egyptian works are presented in Rooms I and II. Room II includes works from Mesopotamia, including cuneiform tablets of the third millennium BCE and items from neo-Assyrian palaces dating from the ninth and seventh centuries BCE. The third room contains two important Phoenician items together with some Etruscan art, while the fourth displays works from Cyprus.

The second floor exhibits classical art. Room V presents original sculptures and copies from the Roman period as well as Greek sculpture of the fifth century BCE. Room VI displays copies of classical and late classical Roman work, along with funerary sculptures from Greece. Rooms VII and VIII, show a collection of Greek and Italic ceramics, and other items, starting from the time of Alexander the Great. The final room shows examples of works from public monuments of the Roman period, together with specimens of medieval art.

• Official website
• "Il Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica" The Museum Volunteers Association in Italian
• Media related to Museo Barracco at Wikimedia Commons

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