Museo di Roma in Trastevere

The Museum of Rome in Trastevere is located in the former monastery of Saint Egidio, where up to the fall of Rome lived the Carmelite nuns. Once it restored, in 1976 the building became home to the Museum of Folklore and the Roman dialect poets, where he kept material on the Roman traditions from the Museum of Rome and the Municipal Print. In 2000 it was reopened to the public under the name of Museo di Roma in Trastevere. The new refurbishment has been adapted more responsive to the current needs of the museum, lending itself particularly to the organization of temporary exhibitions especially photography, shows, conferences and concerts. The permanent collection of the museum shows the main aspects of Roman life in the late eighteenth and nineteenth, filtered through the tastes and beliefs of the artists and folklorists who represented it. The themes are most frequent in the collection are the costumes, folk dancing, secular and religious festivals, crafts. In particular, the collection includes a collection of paintings, prints, drawings and watercolors, including a selection of the famous series "vanished Rome" by Ettore Roesler Franz (Rome 1845-1907): a nineteenth-century Roman setting crib; six environment veristic representations, better known as The Roman Scenes, depicting life-size Roman nineteenth aspects of popular life. They are part of the museum collection materials belonged to the great poet Trilussa (Rome 1871-1950) donated after his death to the municipality of Rome and partly exposed in the video installation called the "Trilussa's Room".