Exhibitions. "Ancient Rome city model" reopens at the Markets of Trajan

2020-06-28T22:04:57.796Z

With 30 new works relating to bridges, aqueducts and markets, the second part of the exhibition 'Civis Civitas Civilitas' will open to the public on Monday 29 June. Ancient Rome model of city hosted at Trajan's Markets - Museum of the Imperial Forums and dedicated to the representation of the city in its fullest value of expression of Roman civilization. Open on 21 December 2019 and suspended from 9 March to 2 June for the containment measures of Covid-19, the exhibition is extended until 18 October 2020 (compared to the expected closure of 6 September) and reopens to visitors in compliance with the guidelines to limit the spread of Covid-19 while allowing for a normal museum visit. Admission requires compulsory booking with the pre-purchase of the ticket on the website www.museiincomuneroma.it and is free for MIC card holders, subject to compulsory and free reservation at 060608. For the occasion, a short guide published by De Luca editori d'Arte and the publication of the photographic atlas of the models after their restoration is published by L'Erma di Bretschneider. The exhibition, set up in the Great Hall and on the museum's galleries, was conceived as an event with a dynamic character. Since last December 58 models and 6 casts of portraits of famous personalities from the Roman world have been on display, aimed at illustrating public spaces, forums, temples, curias, thermal buildings and buildings for shows, urban arches and doors, sepulchres and monuments. On June 29 it will be possible to admire a new group of models, consisting of 24 models, 5 reliefs and a portrait. With these new works, the image of Civitas is completed with infrastructures related to mobility (bridges), water (aqueducts and accumulation and distribution systems), and commerce (markets).