Museo Nazionale Romano - Palazzo Massimo alle Terme

Advantages: interesting collections
Disadvantages: quite expensive (

The Museo Nazionale Romano has recently (in the past year) relocated to Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, which is situated in Piazza Cinquecento, very close to the Termini main rail station. It is hard to do everything in Rome, and it isn't usually the first Museum that springs to mind, I'd place it behind the Vatican Museums and the Capitoline Museums, but that still makes it an incredible place! The building, for a start, is impressive. Unlike the better ...
...has had more of a chance to order its layout. It costs 12000L to get in, (about £4), and it is possible to hire an audioguide. This 12000L includes a timed guided tour to the top floor (the top floor is actually the second floor, not the first floor as stated on the ticket and got me remarkably confused!). But we will start in the basement and work up. In the basement is an almost-separate museum about money and coins. It is much more interesting ... Read review