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Museo del Colosseo

Museum · Celio, Italy

The Parco archeologico del Colosseo's museum, laid out on the second level of the amphitheatre itself and reached on the visit to the monument.

History

The Parco archeologico del Colosseo describes the museum in sections: the architecture of the building, how the amphitheatre worked, the gladiator's trade and the venationes, the spectators and the inscribed senatorial loca, the monument's sculptural apparatus, the medieval Colosseum and its Christianisation, the views made by Grand Tour travellers, the Lucangeli model, and the monument's ideological reuse under the regime.

Visit

Piazza del Colosseo, 00184 Roma RM

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