Considered to be one of the oldest museums in the world, the Musei Capitolini was founded in 1471 when Pope Sisto IV donated a number of bronze statues to the City of Rome. It was enriched by subsequent Popes and opened to the public by Pope Clement XII in 1734. Starting from that first donation the Capitolini museums have contained only local works. All of the things in the two buildings on the site come from Rome and the surrounding area, and are part of the ancient history of the city. The museum’s collection was constantly added to by purchases, donations and findings. A constant procession of material began to appear after 1870.













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Many of the items defined not only the development of some of the facets of the city that is Rome, but helped to fingerprint the very founding of Western and European culture. The Capitolini Museums are situated in two buildings placed one in front of the other on either side of the piazza del Campidoglio: the Palazzo dei Conservatori, to the right and the Palazzo Nuovo, to the left. The Palazzo dei Conservatori was built in 1568, with the Palazzo Nuovo finished almost a century later. All buildings that make up the Musei Capitolini contain priceless statues, paintings, and other artefacts whose histories stretch back hundreds, even thousands of years.













































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