Museo delle Civiltà, History museum in EUR district, Rome, Italy.
The Museo delle Civiltà is a history museum housed in two rationalist buildings on Piazza Guglielmo Marconi in the EUR district of Rome. Its collections cover prehistoric times, Africa, the Americas, Asia, Oceania, folk arts, medieval artifacts, and objects from the colonial period.
The museum was founded in 2016 by merging four separate Italian national museums into a single institution. The collections these museums held had been gathered over more than a century, some dating back to the late 1800s.
The museum displays objects from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania that show how people lived and worked across these regions. Everyday items sit alongside art forms and crafts, making the collections feel grounded in real human experience.
The museum is close to EUR Fermi metro station, making it easy to reach by public transport. The galleries span several floors across the two buildings, so allow enough time to move through the different sections at a comfortable pace.
The two buildings were designed for a world fair planned for 1942 that never took place because of World War II. Walking around them today, you can still read the monumental scale they were given for an event that existed only on paper.
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