Rome, over 37 thousand visitors to the Civic Museums on 3 March, for the first Sunday of the month with free admission.

They were overall 37.336 the visitors of Civic Museums of Rome yesterday, on the first Sunday of the month with free admission. The traditional possibility of visiting the spaces of the for free Museum System of Rome Capital and some archaeological areas of the city recorded a peak of 4.612 admissions to the Capitoline Museums, 4.199 to the Villa Torlonia Museums, 3.100 at Centrale Montemartini, 2.936 at Trajan's Markets, 2.275 at Palazzo Braschi where the exhibitions are taking place”Ukiyoe” (2.190 entries) and “Giacomo Matteotti. Life and death of a father of democracy" 2.490 at the Museum of Rome in Trastevere, which hosts the exhibition on Rino Gaetano yesterday open to visitors for free. They were always yesterday 1.530 visitors to the new Forma Urbis Museum e 1.238 those from the Sacred Area of ​​Largo Argentina.

“Il  The success of visitors yesterday for the Civic Museums of Rome confirms the validity of the initiative of free use of the cultural offer of our Museum System with free admission on Sundays. The exhibitions underway in our museum spaces were also very popular, both those with free entry and those with paid entry, with reduced entry for MIC Card holders, all of which recorded positive numbers. Rome confirms itself as an inclusive city through an idea of ​​open and accessible culture that allows you to fully experience its cultural and archaeological heritage", comments the Councilor for Culture of Rome Capital, Miguel Gotor.

"The set of permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, characterized by great diversity, makes the cultural heritage of the civic museums of Rome Capital unique. In recent months we have worked on a cultural offer designed to meet all audiences and different interests: from the important openings of new archaeological areas to exhibitions of classical art such as "Fidias" at the Capitoline Museums or of modern art with an international scope such as " Ukiyoe” on Japan, to exhibitions that document our contemporary history, such as the one dedicated to Giacomo Matteotti at Palazzo Braschi or Rino Gaetano at the Museum of Rome In Trastevere“, He declares Claudio Parisi Presicce, Capitoline Superintendent of Cultural Heritage.

These are the civic museums opened yesterday on the occasion of the free event: Capitoline Museums,  Markets of Trajan - Museum of the Imperial Forums, Ara Pacis Museum,  Montemartini,  Museum of Rome at Palazzo Braschi,  Museum of Rome in Trastevere,  Gallery of Modern Art, Museums of Villa Torlonia, Moorish greenhouse of Villa Torlonia, Civic Museum of Zoology, Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture, Carlo Bilotti Museum – Orangery of Villa Borghese, Napoleonic Museum, Pietro Canonica Museum in Villa Borghese, Museum of the Roman Republic and Garibaldi memory, Casal de' Pazzi Museum, Museum of the Walls, Villa of Maxentius.

The initiative was promoted by Rome Capital, Department of Culture - Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage.