Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen, House museum in Flaminio, Rome, Italy
Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen is a house museum in the Prati neighborhood of Rome, set inside Villa Helene, a building with two large ground floor studios and living quarters on the upper floors. The collection covers sculpture, painting, and prints made across the full span of his career.
Andersen, a Norwegian-American sculptor, had Villa Helene built between 1922 and 1925 on land he had purchased in Rome. He left the entire property and everything in it to the Italian state when he died in 1940.
Andersen spent decades working toward a vision of a world city governed by peace and cooperation, and the oversized figures he made for it fill the ground floor studio. Walking among them, visitors get a direct sense of how personal and all-consuming that project was for him.
The museum is at Via Pasquale Stanislao Mancini 20 in the Flaminio district, not Prati, a short walk from the Tiber and from the Piazza del Popolo area. It closes on Mondays and on 1 January, 1 May and 25 December, with last entry before closing time. The two ground-floor sculpture galleries and the upper-floor archive rooms are reached by stairs.
The ground-floor gallery keeps a 1926 photograph of Rabindranath Tagore visiting Andersen with his son, and facing the gallery door hangs Yinka Shonibare's work Henry James and Hendrik C., a later artist's response to that friendship.
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