Rome Museums

If you will be there between April and November, I highly recommend http://www.viaggioneifori.it/en/ these tours in the Foro Romano. One, Augustus, is a multimedia show you watch from bleachers with headsets, and the tour of Caesar's Forum is a walk through with headsets. Fabulous, especially on a warm evening.

The Domus Romane at http://www.viaggioneifori.it/en/ is a winner. Do reserve in advance as English tours fill up quickly.

Villa Medici is the French Art Academy in Roma. No reservations required. English tours at 11:00, 14:00, 15:30 Tue-Sun. You will see what the gardens of a Renaissance Roman villa might have looked like.

Have you been to http://www.doriapamphilj.it/roma/en/ Galleria Doria Pamphilj? Wonderful audio guide by a family member and terrific art and architecture.

The Quiranale, the President’s Palace. Only recently opened for regular tours, thanks to President Sergio Matterella. Previously it was the Papal Palace (pre-Vatican days) and also housed four kings of Italy. Like visiting the White House, but security is less stringent and it’s fancier. Reservations required.

The Montemartini museum --- ancient sculptures and mosaics in an old factory.

You've been to the Etruscan museum? The Cimitero Acattolico? Ostia Antica? The aqueduct park? It's hard to know what's obvious and what's not.

Have you been to the Scavi? Advance reservations are a must. Context Tours has things you might like. For a change of pace, though it's not a museum, we loved our cooking class and plan to do it again when we go next year.

Re the above post, Scavi is the tour by Vatican employees that goes into the excavations below St. Peter's Basilica and approaches the chamber underneath the Main Altar area. Really something. You have to arrange it way in advance through the Vatican website.

The National Museum of Rome at the Palazzo Massimo (near Termini station) is absolutely stunning and rarely at all crowded. It is chuck full of terrific Roman sculptures, mosaics, and frescoes. A number of whole rooms have been assembled including ‘Livia’s Garden’, a wondrous large gardenscape, The Palazzo is also across the street from the Basillica of Mary of the Angels and Martyrs, a 16th century church built in the vaults of the frigidarium of the 3rd century Baths of Diocletian. While the decor isn’t Roman, it goes a long way towards conveying the sense of splendor that an Imprrial Nath complex must have had in its heyday.

We enjoyed visiting the Etruscan museum very much. It is in a lovely garden and isn’t too crowded.

Have you walked any of the Appia Antica yet? I guess I'd call it a museum of the outdoor (mostly) type).

https://www.parcoappiaantica.it

St Clemente with its many layers of history near the Colosseum. Have you been there?