Accademia di Francia a Roma – Villa Medici
Reduced ticket
May, 7th – July, 6 th
Exhibition
La Collezione Lambert Viaggio a Roma
From Anselm Kiefer, Jannis Kounellis, Bertrand Lavier, Claude Levêque, Brice Marden, Gordon Matta, Clark Nan Goldin, Bruno Peinado to Cy Twombly. Works of 30 artists and over of international reputation. Paintings, sculptures, designs, installations and video will take place in different spaces of the Villa: Galleries, Roman reservoir, Atelier of the Bosco, Garden and stairs of the Cove, open to the public for the first time.
For further information please see: www.villamedici.it
Auditorium Parco della Musica
Guided tours with experts (on booking only)
A guided tour in search of the great music architecture, where you will hear about the history, architecture, urban and cultural value of this beautiful Auditorium designed by Renzo Piano.
10% discount on ticket.
Bioparco
The place where nature becomes culture. A thousand animals, refreshment bars, picnic areas, just in the heart of Villa Borghese: this is the Biopark of Rome, an ever changing place visited each year by more than 500,000 people, thus being one of the major attractions of this city.
Reduced ticket.
Complesso del Vittoriano
Reduced ticket.
Till July, 29 th
Renoir
Outstanding monographic exhibition devoted to the prolific French painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, one of the greatest representative of the.Impressionism. The exhibition, under the High Patronage of the Presidenza della Repubblica, is curated by Kathleen Adler, famous Impressionism expert and e Director of Education at National Gallery, Londra.
May 9th -18th
Il Festival delle scienze
The project sets out to pick up where it left off and to spread the word about Lazio's scientific heritage and in addition to generally raising awareness and meetings between public and researchers by means of Coffee-shop seminars, conferences and an exhibition.
On June
Il Lazio tra Europa e Mediterraneo
This 3rd Edition of the event promoted by the Lazio Region aims to restore the Mediterranean to its natural and rightful place as a communal area in which shared political and economic interests live happily side by side and where different cultures and traditions meet and merge.
May, 22nd - July, 29th
Celebrazioni per gli 800 anni dell'Abbazia di Fossanova
An exhibition displaying period hand-crafted items, information panels and scenographic reconstructions and audio-visual material tells the story of the Abbey from its construction through until today and also portrays the continuing relationship between it and the Cistercian monks who live within its walls.
Explora il Museo dei Bambini di Roma
Museum dedicated to children, schools and families. It's a city on a child's scale where everything can be observed, touched,and experimented with. Explora allows children the possibility to discover everyday facts and realities experimenting at first hand the Enviroment, Society Communication and “Me”.
Free tours 1h 45 minutes 10% discount on ticket (children admitted only if accompanied by an adult, adults admitted only if accompanied by a child!)
Museo Civico di Zoologia
Animal diversity represented by artificial scenarios: from the driest desert to the lush coral reef. A multimedia and multi-sense journey through precious historical collections of animals from all over the world, including three specimens of extinct species.
Reduced ticket.
Museo Ebraico di Roma
Located on the premises of the Great Synagogue, the Jewish Museum of Rome displays the works of the roman silversmiths, precious textiles and other treasures of the 5 Scole. The ticket includes the visit of the Main Synagogue and of the Spanish Synagogue.
Reduced ticket.
Via Lungotevere Cenci, Tempio
Museo delle Cere
Opened in 1958 by Fernando Canini, this museum displays life-size waxworks portraying historical characters, writers and musicians, contemporary sportsmen and singers as well as prehistoric animals.
50% discount.
La città dell'acqua
Reduced ticket
The expression "Città dell'Acqua" (lit. "city of the water") used to define the archaeological area of the Vicus Caprarius, is due to the presence of the most characteristical element of the area: the water flowing from Fontana di Trevi, next to the structures excavated. This is an insula, turned into a domus through the IV century.
Vicolo del Puttarello, 25
Mondays 4 - 7.30 p.m.; from Thursdays to Sundays 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
For information and booking
3397786192
Palazzo delle Esposizioni
Till May, 18th
Cina contemporanea. Arte fra identità e trasformazioni
Curated by Zhu Qi e Morgan Morris. A unique occasion to get a closer view of contemporary Chinese art, proof of its rapid social structural alteration, through the newest artefacts of some of the most popular contemporany artist
Il mito della velocità. Arte, motori e società nell'Italia del ‘900
Curated by Eugenio Martera and Patrizia Pietrogrande. A spectacular exhibition on the theme of speedexamines the major changes that marked the twentieth century in Italy, where the concept of velocity inspired not only builders of motor vehicles but also painters, sculptors, designers, film directors and architects.
Til May, 25 th
FotoGrafia-Festival Internazionale di Roma
Seeing normality. Photography portrays daily life
An exhibition dedicated to the photos of Gabriele Basilico, Leonie Purchas, Paolo Woods, Lucia Nimcova and the collective project “Roma” of G. Iturbide, T. Davis, D. Farrell, P. Hugo, R. Mariniello, M. Gendel, M. Rio Branco, P. Ventura, S. Gourui e C. Jaguaribe
19 June - 14 September
15ª Quadriennale di Roma
One hundred artists, to understand where contemporary Italian art is going. With a tribute to Luciano Fabro
This edition offers a panorama of some of the most representative artistic experiments and pursuits of the past twenty years. Visitors are offered an exploration of contemporary creativity, ranging from traditional genres - drawing, painting, sculpture - to photography and video projections, including installations and environments.
Palazzo Incontro
Close down for almost thirty years, the Palazzo in Via dei Prefetti now rediscovers its past splendour: starting from 27 October 2006, the new “Palazzo Incontro” is offering cultural, artistic, social and institutional initiatives of national and international stature.
Free admission.
For further information please see: www.provincia.roma.it
Palazzo Valentini
Seat of Rome Provincial Authorities since 1873, this building dates from the end of the sixteenth century and was subsequently enhanced by an extraordinary campaign of archaeological excavations whereby two big sculptures and two patrician villas, dating to the third-fourth century and the second century respectively, were brought back to light.
Free admission.
For further information please see: www.provincia.roma.it
Scuderie del Quirinale
Reduced ticket.
Till June, 10th
Exhibition
Ottocento. Da Canova al Quarto Stato
By Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli, Fernando Mazzocca and Carlo Sisi. About 100 masterpieces to testify the modernity of the 19th century painting in Italy: the great grassroots ideals of the Risorgimento and of existential inner conflicts in the Romantics, a new ideal of beauty designed to reflect the concerns of modern man.
July, 4th –August, 24th
Scatti di guerra
Lee Miller e Tony Vaccaro. Dallo sbarco in Normandia a Berlino
Curated by Marco Delogu e Umberto Gentiloni. The final phases of World War II told from two different standpoints and adopting two different approaches: on the one hand Miller, befriended the leading thinkers of the era; on the other Tony Vaccaro, a soldier with the US Army and official photographer for his division's newspaper.
Partner:
In collaboration with:
