Centrale Montemartini

Roman sculptures amid diesel engines in a power station

Address Via Ostiense 106, 00154 Rome
Admission €7.50 full, €6.50 reduced
Opening Hours Tue–Sun 09:00–19:00; closed Mon
Website www.centralemontemartini.org

Around 450 Greek and Roman sculptures from the Capitoline Museums collection displayed in a decommissioned early-20th-century power station in the Ostiense district. The contrast between white marble gods and athletes and the giant turbines and boilers of the industrial plant is genuinely striking — this is one of Rome's most atmospheric museum spaces.

Worth the short metro ride from the centre (Garbatella on Line B). Far less crowded than the Capitoline Museums proper.

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