National Museum of Palazzo Massimo alle Terme
The palace was rebuilt between 1883 and 1886 by the architect Camillo Castrucci on the villa Montalto-Peretti as the seat of the Jesuit boarding school. After various events it was finally purchased by the State in 1981 and restored. The museum was inaugurated in 1995 and completed in 1998.
The collections are distributed over the four floors of the building according to a chronological and thematic criterion: the ground floor, the first and second floors are dedicated to the section of ancient art; the basement houses the numismatics and goldsmithing sections.
Among the original Greek works imported to Rome are the Niobide by the Horti Sallustiani and the bronze statue of the Boxer.
