Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Art museum in Trastevere district, Rome, Italy.
The Museo di Roma in Trastevere is housed in a former Carmelite monastery and displays paintings, photographs, and objects from different periods of the city's history. The rooms also hold personal documents and artworks that record how people lived in Rome across the centuries.
The museum was founded in 1977 with a focus on folklore and Roman dialect poetry. After renovation in 2000, it took its current name and shifted focus to documenting the broader story of urban life in Rome.
The museum keeps the personal possessions of the Roman dialect poet Trilussa, donated to Rome after his death in 1950, in a room with a video installation and paintings. Manuscripts by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli are also held. The life-size "Roman Scenes" show a chemist's shop, an inn courtyard with dancing, a public scribe in a square and two pipers at a votive kiosk.
The museum entrance is on Piazza Sant'Egidio, in the former Carmelite convent complex; the cloister, which preserves fragments of demolished medieval churches, is also used for events. The building was restored by Attilio Spaccarelli with Fabrizio Bruno, who brought back to light the 1723 architecture commissioned by the nuns. The Ettore Marchiafava plaque at the entrance recalls the site's earlier use as an anti-malaria children's sanatorium.
A special section features detailed watercolor paintings by Ettore Roesler Franz showing Rome in the 1800s, before modern changes reshaped the city. These works offer a visual record of what the streets and buildings looked like long ago.
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