Aula Ottagona

The Aula Ottagona is both the most atmospheric branch of Rome's Museo Nazionale Romano and the only one that's admission-free

Museo Nazionale Romano - Aula Ottagona
Via G. Romita (between Via Cernaia and Via Parigi, just north of Piazza della Repubblica)
tel. +39-06-3996-7700
www.archeorm.arti.beniculturali.it
CURRENTLY CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC (normally, Closed Mondays)

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The Aula Ottagona is currently closed indefinitely to the public.The only bit of the excellent Rome National Museum that's admission-free is this huge brick room left over from the ancient Baths of Diocletian, a huge complex of halls and buidlings that has since been infested by monasteries, government government buildings, and the Michelangelo-designed Santa Maria degli Angeli church.

MNR Branches
Palazzo Massimo
Palazzo Altemps
Baths of Diocletian
Aula OttgonaInside, the Aula Ottagona—the inventively named "Octagonal Hall"—displays just a few, but very choice examples of oversized, 2nd-century BC sculptures that hail from various bathhouses across Rome. The weird metal netting of a dome inside is left over from when this room did duty as a planetarium.

This hidden room of statues is also convenient for being right around the corner from Rome's otherwise inconveniently located main tourist office and just up from the grandiose Piazza delal Repubblica.

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Planning your day: You can take a quick peek in 10–20 minutes or so. (Throw in the other parts of the baths complex—the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli and the Baths of Diocletian—and maybe you're looking an an hour to 90 minutes total.)

Branches of the Museo Nationale Romano: Palazzo Massimo, Palazzo Altemps, Baths of Diocletian, Aula Ottgona
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