Musei di San Salvatore in Lauro
Museum · Ponte, Italy
The museums inside the monumental complex held by the Pio Sodalizio dei Piceni, at the same street number as the sanctuary but with their own hours and telephone. Roma Capitale gives the hours as Tuesday to Saturday 10.00 to 13.00 and 16.00 to 19.00, closed Sunday and Monday, and the telephone number 06 6875608. It records that the museums house the permanent donations and galleries of Emilio Greco and Umberto Mastroianni, and that they have shown Visioni del Grand Tour dall'Ermitage, the Gogol bicentenary, Dostoevskij e l'Italia, Cinetismo and the Francesco Messina centenary.
History
it.wikipedia records that the Pio Sodalizio dei Piceni grew from an association formed at the start of the seventeenth century at the instance of Cardinal Gianbattista Pallotta of Caldarola, and that Urban VIII made it the Confraternita della Santa Casa di Loreto in 1633. The feast of the Piceni is kept in Rome on 10 December each year, the anniversary of the translation of the Holy House.
Visit
Piazza di San Salvatore in Lauro, 15, 00186 Roma RM
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