Central State Archives 
Records of public Institutions, private archives of leading personalities, photographic and audiovisual archives.
Piazzale degli Archivi 27 - phone 06 54 54 85 68 - fax 06 54 13 620
E-mail: acs@archivi.beniculturali.it
Internet: http://archivi.beniculturi.it/ACS/index.html
Hours: 9 - 19, Sat 9 - 13; Sundays and holidays closed.
Admission free.
Emilio Greco Archives
Study center for the general catalogue of the renowned artist, whose sculptures and prints are on display.
Piazza San Salvatore in Lauro 15 - phone/fax 06 68 80 85 70
E-mail: archivie.greco@flashnet.it
Hours: Mon-Fri 10 - 14.
Admission free.
Burcardo Library and Theatre Collection 
Theatrical costumes, texts, scene and stage sketches. Famous library with over 40,000 volumes.
Via del Sudario 44 - phone 06 68 19 471 - fax 06 81 94 727
E-mail: biblioteca.burcardo@siae.it
Internet: www.burcardo.siae.it
Guided visits on request Hours: 9 - 13.30, Sat and holidays closed.
Admission Euro 2,00.
Goethe's House 
Original drawings, watercolors, diaries and letters.
Via del Corso 18 - phone 06 32 65 04 12 - fax 06 32 65 04 49
E-mail: info@casadigoethe.it
Internet: www.casadigoethe.it
Guided visits on request Hours: 10 - 18, Mon closed.
Admission Euro 4,00
Pirandello's House
Books, furnishings and personal belongings of the great Sicilian writer.
Istituto di Studi Pirandelliani, Via A. Bosio 13B/15 - phone/fax 06 44 29 18 53
Internet: www.studiodiluigipirandello.it E-mail: studipirandelliani@libero.it Hours: Tue, Wed,Thur and Fri 9.30 - 13. Advance booking recommended.
Admission free.
Giorgio De Chirico House-Museum
In the house where De Chirico lived from 1948 on, paintings, terracotta articles, casts and the artist's tools are on display.
Piazza di Spagna 31 - phone/fax 06 67 96 546 E-mail: fondazionedechirico@tiscalinet.it Internet: www.fondazionedechirico.it
Hours: by appointment Tue-Sat 10 - 13, Sun and Mon closed. Open the 1st Sunday of every month. Closed in August.
Admission Euro 5,00
Crypt of the Capuchin Friars
The cemetery consists of five chapels, whose walls are completely decorated with skeletal remains of 4.000 thousand capuchin friars who died between 1528 and 1870.
Chiesa di S. Maria della Concezione - Via Vittorio Veneto 27
Internet: www.cappuccinviaveneto.it
Hours: 9.00-12.00; 15.00-18.00; Thursdays closed.
Explora, the Children's Museum of Rome
Explora is the first museum of Rome especially aimed at children who are allowed to touch and play with everything on display.
Via Flaminia 82/86 - phone 06 36 13 776 - fax 06 36 08 68 03
E-mail: info@mdbr.it
Internet: www.mdbr.it
Advance booking necessary.
Hours: : Tue - Fri 9.30 - 18.45, Sat, Sun and holidays 10 - 18.45
Admission: children Euro 7,00, adults Euro 6,00.
Fosse Ardeatine 
A funerary memorial to the 335 victims of a Nazi massacre.
Via Ardeatina, 174 - phone 06 5136742
Guided visits by appointment: tel/fax 06 6783114
Hours: : 8.15 - 16.45 (closed on Jan. 1st, Easter Day, May 1st, Aug. 15th and Dec. 25th)
Admission: free
Keats-Shelley Memorial House
Autograph documents and memoirs concerning the English Romantic poets Keats, Shelley and Byron.
Piazza di Spagna 26 - phone 06 67 84 235 - fax 06 67 84 167
E-mail: info@keats-shelley-house.org
Internet: www.keats-shelley-house.org
Hours: Mon-Fri 9 - 13/15 - 18, Sat 11 - 14/15 - 18, Sun closed.
Admission Euro 3,00.
Permanent Exhibit of Period Carriages
140 period carriages from the Apolloni collection together with stagecoaches, mail-coaches, and harnesses.
Via Andrea Millevoi 693 - phone/fax 06 51 95 81 12
Internet: www.lecarrozzedepoca.com
Hours: Tue-Fri 10 - 13/15 - 19, Sat and Sun and holidays 9.30 - 13.30/15.30 - 19.30,
Mon closed.
Admission Euro 5,50.
Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum of Decorative Arts
The lovely house features an exhibition of high fashion from the 1950's to 90's and collections of art objects by important 20th-century artists.
Via Boncompagni 18 - phone 06 42 82 40 74
Internet: www.gnam.arti.beniculturali.it Hours: Tue-Sun 9 - 19, Mon closed.
Admission free.
Canova-Tadolini Museum
A studio of great masters, including Canova, with archives of great historic-artistic importance.
Via del Babuino 150/a - phone 06 32 11 07 02
Hours: 8.30 - 20.30, Sun and holidays closed. Advance booking recommended.
Admission free
Carlo Bilotti Museum at the Orange House in Villa Borghese
Work by De Chirico, Andy Warhol, Giacomo Manzł and Larry Rivers.
Viale Fiorello La Guardia - phone 06 82059127
Hours: thu-sun 9-19 mon closed
Internet: www.museocarlobilotti.it
E-mail: museo.bilotti@comune.roma.it
Admission Euro 4,50 + entrance fee to the exhibition
Wax Museum
Around 250 wax statues of famous personalities, many of whom are presented in faithfully reconstructed settings.
Piazza S.S. Apostoli 67 - phone/fax 06 67 96 482 - www.museodellecereroma.com - info@museodellecereroma.com
Hours: 9.00 - 20.00. Admission Euro 5,00.
Criminology Museum
The collections illustrate the history of crime and criminology with sections devoted to torture, capital punishment, criminal anthropology and the history of modern prisons.
Via del Gonfalone 29 - phone 06 68 30 02 34 - fax 06 68 21 53 47 E-mail: museo.criminologico@giustizia.it
Internet: www.museocriminologico.it Hours: Tue-Sat 9 - 13, Tue and Thu also 14.30 - 18.30, Mon and holidays closed.
Admission Euro 2,00.
Umberto Mastroianni Donation Museum
The museum contains sculptures by the recently deceased artist.
Piazza San Salvatore in Lauro 15 - phone 06 68 65 493/06 68 78 737
E-mail: redazione@ilcigno.org
Hours: Mon-Fri 10 - 13, Sat and Sun closed.
Admission free.
Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum
The house, designed in 1925 by the artist himself, holds sculptures, paintings and drawings.
Via Pasquale Stanislao Mancini 20 - phone 06 32 19 089
Internet: www.gnam.arti.beniculturali.it
Hours: 9 - 19, Mon closed.
Admission free
"José Pantieri" Museum of Film and Entertainment
Curios of international filmmaking: cameras, projectors and posters. An important collection of Italian and European silent films.
Via Portuense 101 - phone/fax 06 37 00 266
E-mail: mics@email.it
Hours: guided tours only by appointment.
Museum of the Central Institute for Book Pathology
Book manufacturing and restoration techniques.
Via Milano, 76 - phone 06 482911
Hours: only by appointment. Sat. and Sun. closed.
Admission: free
Teaching programme for schools.
Dario Argento's Horror Museum
Reproduction of scenes and special effects from horror and fantasy films.
Via dei Gracchi 260 - phone/fax 06 32 11 395
Internet: www.profondorossostore.com
Hours: 11- 13/16 - 19, Sun closed.
Admission Euro 3,00.
Museum of the Monastery of St. Paul's 
Collection of Christian epigraphs and tombstones. Worthy of note are the 42 medallions of the Popes, transferred to the museum after the fire which damaged the Basilica in 1823.
Via Ostiense 184 - phone 06 54 10 341 - fax 06 54 03 381
Internet: www.abbaziasanpaolo.net
Hours: 9 - 13/15 - 18.30, Sun closed.
Admission free.
Teatro Argentina Museum
Memoirs of the historic theatre (1732), scenery, documents, photographs.
Largo di Torre Argentina 51 - phone 06 68 40 00 361
Internet: www.zetema.it
Advance booking for groups necessary: phone 06 82 05 9127
Hours: 10 - 13.30, Mon closed.
Admission Euro 2,60.
Torquato Tasso Museum
Housed in the convent where the poet died, it contains ancient editions of his works and other memoirs.
Piazza Sant'Onofrio 2 - phone 06 68 28 121- fax 06 68 80 22 98
Only groups by appointment. Admission free.
Mario Praz Museum
At Palazzo Primoli, in what was once the house of the famous scholar, a collection of over 1,200 objects: furniture, paintings, sculptures and more.
Via Zanardelli 1 - phone 06 68 61 089
Internet: www.gnam.arti.beniculturali.it
Hours: Tue-Sun 9am-7pm, Mon closed. Entrance every hour.
Advance booking recommended. Admission free.
National Pasta Museum
Utensils and objects documenting the history of pasta, from the Etruscans up to the present days.
Piazza Scanderbeg 117 - phone 06 69 91 119 - fax 06 69 91 109
E-mail: pastainmuseum@pastainmuseum.it
Internet: www.pastainmuseum.com
Hours: 9,30 - 17.30.
Admission Euro 10,00 Special prices for families.
Museum of Police Cars
An exhibition of Italian Police cars along the last decades.
Fiera di Roma, via dell'Arcadia 20 - tel. 06 51 41 861.
Internet: www.museoautopolizia.it
Hours: thu - fri 9.30/18.30, Sat 9.30/19.30, Mon and holidays closed. Admission Euro 3,00.
Museum of the International Typological Manger Scene
An exhibition of manger scene and figurines of historic value: more than three thousand pieces show the interpretation and setting of the Nativity scene in Italy and all over the world.
Via Tor de' Conti 31/a - phone 06 67 96 146 - fax 06 97 89 602
Internet:www.presepio.it Hours: September through June, Wed and Sat 17 - 20; from December 24 through January 6, weekdays 16 - 20, Sundays and holidays 10.00 - 13.00/16.00 - 20.00.
Admission free. Only by appointment.
Museum of the Fire Brigade
The museum shows the history of Rome's fire-fighting service, starting from the age of Emperor Augustus till nowadays. Pictures, videos, experiments with special optical and sound effects.
Via Marmorata 15 - phone 06 57 46 808 - fax 06 57 81 495
e-mail: museoromavf@vfdcf.it
Monday through Saturday: 9 - 19
Admission free
Museum of the souls in Purgatory
Traces of fire left by the souls in Purgatory on cloths, wood tablets and breviaries.
Chiesa del Sacro Cuore di Gesł in Prati - Lungotevere Prati 12 - phone 06 68 80 65 17
Hours: 7 - 11/16.30 - 19, Sun closed. Admission free.
