Nearly adjacent to the Piazza Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, surrounded by a grassy area on which are located the archaeological remains of the Imperial Palace (Sessorio), the Castrense Amphitheatre and the Circus of Heliogabalus, the museum contains a vast amount of musical instruments, perhaps the only collection of its kind in the world: about 3,000 pieces dating from antiquity to the late eighteenth century, of which eight hundred are on exhibit. Most of the preserved instruments come from the private collection of Evan Gorga, Italian tenor, who after his musical career, dedicated himself to full-time collecting. Later, an incredible array of rare and precious instruments were added. Among them, the jelwels of the collection are a model of a harpsichord in lacquered wood, gilded with Tritoni and Nereidi, from the seventeenth century, the famous Barberini Harp and some of the instruments that belonged to Benedetto Marcello
CLOSEDMonday
ADMISSIONFull € 2,00 - Reduced € 1,00
ADDRESSPiazza Santa Croce in Gerusalemme 9/a00185 Rome
INFO TEL0039 06 7014796
INFO MAILsspsae-rm@beniculturali.it
WEBSITEhttp://poloromano.beniculturali.it
Il portale del primo sistema espositivo integrato di Roma Capitale