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History of the museum

The history if the new exhibition space for the Musei Capitolini in the former Giovanni Montemartini Thermoelectric Centre, an extraordinary example of industrial archaeology converted into a museum, began in 1997 with the transfer of hundreds of sculptures to the new location during the restructuring works carried out across much of the Capitoline complex.

The electricity plant

The Montemartini centre was the first public electricity plant to produce electricity for Rome. It opened at the beginning of the 1900s on the Via Ostiense, between the General Markets and the left bank of the Tiber.

Its history is intertwined with that of the Municipal Electric Company, now Acea, which was created in 1909.

Copies of Greek originals
Route through the rooms

A series of sculptures with various provenances bears witness to two phenomena very wide-spread in Ancient Rome: the habit of collecting antiques and the diffusion of Greek models through copies of the original sculpture.

Next to faithful copies of the most famous originals of Greek art, obtained using moulds and instruments of precise measurement, works which are rather re-elaborations of the

01/01/2011 - 31/12/2012
Centrale Montemartini and the industrial archaeological heritage of the Ostiense area
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Exhibitions and events

Calendar

Planned

Orchestralunata
19 May 2012
Event
Valerio Aprea legge Francesco Piccolo
Giovani@teatro
30 May 2012
Event
Roma di notte
Giovani@teatro
22 September 2012
Event

Educational events

Current

Didactic programs for schools: Centrale Montemartini - Centrale Montemartini and the heritage of industrial archeology of the area of Ostia
1 January - 30 June 2012
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Didactic programs for schools: Centrale Montemartini - From Thermal Power Station to the Museum of Archaeology: History and phenomenology of architectural reuse and redevelopment
1 January - 30 June 2012
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Didactic programs for schools: Centrale Montemartini - general tour of the museum
1 January - 30 June 2012
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Didactic programs for schools: Centrale Montemartini - Gods and machines
1 January - 30 June 2012
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Centrale Montemartini and the industrial archaeological heritage of the Ostiense area
1 January 2011 - 31 December 2012
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