Mercati e Foro di Traiano

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Centrale Montemartini
Mercati e Foro di Traiano
Museo dell'Ara Pacis
Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco
Museo della Civiltà Romana
Museo delle Mura
Villa di Massenzio

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History

Since 1985 over 40,000 fragments originating from the forum area have been catalogued and documented from deposits created after excavations carried out in the 20th century. A seemingly huge quantity of finds but in reality they represent a small percentage of what was the enormous quantity of marble facing and super-structure blocks which made up the Antiquarium Forense (Forum District).

Layout

Dedicated to the forums’ architectural decoration, the museum addresses their structural aspects to once again give us a ‘final’ view of the original buildings. To complete their reassembly the use of artificial elements made from plaster has been used. The use of such elements was agreed upon in the planning phase. Exhibits are completed with ‘colour’ which is not only applied on the plaster mouldings but also on modern marble surfaces through the use of dyes.

Archaeological Area

The five monumental complexes named the “Imperial Forums” were constructed in topographic continuity with the old Roman Forums of the imperial-republican era. The new structures substituted the religious, political and administrative functions of the former.

In chronological order of inauguration the forums built were: the Forum of Caesar (46 BC), the Forum of Augustus (2 BC), The Temple of

Section on the Forum of Augustus

Inaugurated in the 2 BC, the Forum of Augustus consists of a rectangular square paved with white marble slabs, dominated, at its lower end, by the temple dedicated to Mars Ultor, also built in white marble from the quarry in Luni today known as Carrara. The temple was built against a high wall built of blocks of tufa stone that separated the forum from the rowdy Subura neighborhood.

22/03 - 10/06/2012

Reflections from the sky, meditations on earth: Modern Arab Calligraphic art

Riflessioni dal Cielo, Meditazioni in Terra: Arte Moderna Calligrafica dal Mondo Arabo

Exhibitions

Arabic calligraphy has a special spiritual significance – as it is used for writing the Koran, the Islamic sacred scriptures – and an intrinsic decorative value that plays an important role in Islamic art.

01/01/2011 - 31/12/2012

Un museo dell’architettura antica: le ricomposizioni

Educational resources for all

The Markets of Trajan are now the home of the Museo dei Fori Imperiali, dedicated to sculptural decoration and architectural and graphic rendering of the buildings belonging to the archaeological complex of the Imperial Forums.