Museo Nazionale Romano

The Museo Nazionale Romano is Italy's national museum of Roman antiquity, founded in 1889 under King Umberto I and now spread across four sites in Rome: Palazzo Massimo, Palazzo Altemps, Crypta Balbi and the Baths of Diocletian. Together they hold the most important public collection of Roman sculpture, coins, mosaics and wall paintings in the country. Palazzo Massimo displays the painted garden room from the Villa of Livia and the Discobolus Lancellotti, while Palazzo Altemps holds the Ludovisi marbles including the Dying Gaul group; the Baths of Diocletian themselves are the largest surviving thermal complex of antiquity. Visitors can buy a combined ticket valid for a week; Palazzo Massimo opposite Termini station is the densest single stop, the Baths the most architecturally striking.