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Opening times
BEFORE PLANNING THE VISIT, CONSULT THE NOTICES
Open daily, from 9.30 to 19.30
24 and 31 December: 9.30 - 14.00
Closed: 1 January, 1 May, 25 December
Information
Free admission for everyone on the first Sunday of every month.
> Free and reduced tickets
> Agreements
> The MIC card can be purchased at museums and online
> Reservations for groups and schools
> The purchase of video guides is suspended:
Videoguides in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish: € 6,00
> Cloakroom
Free cloakroom facilities for bags, backpacks, pushchairs and umbrellas.
> Pushchairs
The use of pushchairs is permitted inside the museum
> Bookshop
Agreement with
> Roma Pass: free entry to the first museums and/or archaeological sites of your choice (48H); to 2 museums (72H).
Bookshop: 10% discount.
Today's events
Scheduled events
Description
Dedicated to ancient architecture, the museum is the first of its kind. With a reversibility theme in mind, on show are displays of original fragments of decorative features and sculpture, which were found in the Forums. Fragments have been recomposed and integrated with newly cut stone. Exhibits give back to us a “perception” of the quality and wealth of the Forum’s figurative subject matter, which worked as an imperial propaganda vehicle.
Opened in the Autumn of 2007, the Museum is sited in the Great Hall and Central Block of the Mercati di Traiano, which includes the Great Hemicycle section of his Forum. Displays use a mixture of traditional boards and multimedia panels and visitors start their tour in the Great Hall with an introduction to the Forum area and a presentation of each Forum based on the most important finds discovered within it. On the upper level are pieces from Caesar’s Forum and “Memory of the Antiquity”. In the Central Block are pieces from Augustus’s Forum, which was the model forum used in the Roman Provinces.
Built at the same time as Trajan’s Forum, the monumental complex dominated by Mercati di Traiano, which as “rediscovered” from 1926 to 1934, was a multi-functional public work with administrative functions for the Forum. Although rebuilt and transformed over time, it was originally composed of units on six different levels which run in a Great Hemicycle along the base of the Quirinal Hill side. From 2005-2007, the site has been the subject of cutting edge structural and protective restoration. The Museo dei Fori Imperiali houses also temporary exhibitions.
> Corporate events
The archaeological area constituted by Trajan's Markets can be used to organize:
- private events on the terrace (max 120 people standing or sitting); in the rooms on the third floor (max 120 people standing/80 sitting)
- private educational tours (max 200 people)
For further information: eventi.aziendali@zetema.it
> HERITY certification
> You can purchase and download the video guide app of Mercati di Traiano - Museo dei Fori Imperiali on the IOS and Android store
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Educational activities
Directions for groups
> Visits for groups on request to the museum and/or the exhibition
hours: on request
languages: English, Italian, French, German, Spanish
people: max 30
length: 90 minutes
price: € 90,00
booking: required
> Info and booking (schools and groups):
Tel. +39 060608, 9.00 am - 9.00 pm, daily.
> School Visits
Guided tours and workshops for school groups
Guided tours are free of charge only for the schools of Rome and Province of Rome, and subject to availability.
Guided tours cost € 70.00 per school group.
Workshops cost € 176,00 per school group.
Maximun number of participants per group (including tour leaders): 30 people
School groups are welcome but must be chaperoned by a minimum of one teacher per 30 students.
School groups must show a school headed paper containing the list of pupils/students and accompanying teachers/professors (one teacher/professor comes free for every 10 pupils/students)
Reservations required
Tel. +39 060608, 9.00 am - 9.00 pm, daily.