The Museum of Rome was founded in 1930 in the ex-Pantanella pasta factory in Via dei Cerchi. The aim was to pay homage to the city and to respond to the increasingly urgent desire to hand down the memory of a “Rome that was disappearing” due to the effect of the Roma Capitale urban development plan and the urban transformations from the Fascist period. It was closed in 1939 and in 1952, it was moved to its current home in Palazzo Braschi. The Museum now has a collection of around 120,000 items, including paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs and clothes. Considering the amount and the type of materials in the collection, the new layout – inaugurated on 28 March 2017 – follows a themed route instead of a chronological one, inside the display rooms, now located on the second and third floors of the building. The first floor is used for temporary exhibitions.

The Museum of Rome – Palazzo Braschi is part of the Musei in Comune network as well as of the accessibility programme, “Musei da toccare”, with tactile aids. Inside the museum, a video in Italian Sign Language with subtitles is played on a multimedia support. The Italian sign language video, in the museum courtyard is also available online, and welcomes deaf visitors, introducing them to the route of the visit. Through Zètema, Roma Capitale services company, it is also possible to reserve (email to didattica@zetema.it or tel. 060608) guided Museum visits, with Italian Sign Language translator or guide.