Museo Carlo Bilotti - Aranciera di Villa Borghese
Museum · Pinciano, Italy
A civic museum in the Aranciera of Villa Borghese. The museum's own contact page gives two addresses side by side, Via Fiorello La Guardia 6 and Viale dell'Aranciera 4, 00197 Roma, with the email info@museocarlobilotti.it and the call centre on 060608. It opens Tuesday to Friday 10.00 to 16.00 and Saturday and Sunday 10.00 to 19.00, with last admission forty-five minutes before closing; 24 and 31 December are 10.00 to 14.00 and 1 January 2026 is 11.00 to 16.00; it is closed on Mondays, 1 May and 25 December. Tickets follow the civic-museum tariff of 7.50 euro full and 6.00 euro reduced, or 11.00 and 7.50 with an exhibition, and the MIC card is 5.00 euro. The collection includes work by Giorgio de Chirico, among it Cavalli in riva al mare, Archeologi misteriosi, Autoritratto con testa di Minerva, Donna bionda di spalle, Cavaliere antico and Cavallo, together with Andy Warhol's Madre e figlia: Tina e Lisa Bilotti, Larry Rivers's Carlo con Dubuffet sullo sfondo, and works by Gino Severini and Giacomo Manzu.
History
The building is the Aranciera, the Casino dei giuochi d'acqua remodelled for Marcantonio IV Borghese by Antonio Asprucci from 1766. In the atrium and to the left of the building, at Piazzale Victor Hugo, are two seventeenth-century features: a rustic nymphaeum with a sarcophagus, and a tufa rockwork fountain.
Visit
Viale dell'Aranciera 4, 00197 Roma RM
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