For one night the Capitoline Museums will remain open when the rooms are usually dark for hours, and with them the Ara Pacis, the Centrale Montemartini and the other Civic Museums of the Capital. He returns to Rome on Saturday 21 November Museums in Musicthe autumn event which from 8pm to 2am transforms collections and historic rooms into stages for concerts and live shows.
Where and when
The initiative, in its sixteenth edition, is promoted by Roma Capitale, with the Department of Culture and the Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage, and organized by Zètema Progetto Cultura. The Civic Museums will open at 8pm and close at 2am. As happens every year, other places of culture that decide to join may be added to the municipal network.
The museums involved
The list published by Turismo Roma includes the Capitoline Museums, the Centrale Montemartini, the Trajan’s Markets with the Museum of the Imperial Forums, the Ara Pacis Museum, the Museum of Rome and the Museum of Rome in Trastevere.
There are also the Napoleonic Museum, the Pietro Canonica Museum and the Museums of Villa Torlonia, namely Casina delle Civette, Casino Nobile and Serra Moresca. Then the Carlo Bilotti Museum, the Giovanni Barracco Ancient Sculpture Museum, the Civic Museum of Zoology and the Museum of the Roman Republic and the memory of Garibaldi. The list ends with the Gallery of Modern Art, the Casal de’ Pazzi Museum, the Forma Urbis Museum in the Celio Archaeological Park and the Villa of Maxentius.
The program
Who will take the stages, and in which museum, is not yet known. The shows are selected with a public notice from Zètema addressed to organisations, associations and companies, who had until 12pm on 3 November to present their projects. The proposals have therefore just arrived on the organizers’ table, and the complete program will soon be published on the Musei in Comune website. For information, the contact center 060608 is active.
How much does it cost
Even on the tickets there is no official communication yet. Informagiovani Roma, the Roma Capitale portal for young people, indicates an entrance fee of 1 euro. At the Night of the Museums last May, however, the symbolic fee was valid for residents of Rome and the metropolitan city, while non-residents paid 2 euros: confirmation, location by location, will come with the final program.
