Capitoline Museums
You’re at the Capitoline Museums—*Musei Capitolini*—a municipal museum whose story reaches back to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV made a “restitution” of ancient bronzes to the people of Rome. Among the pieces were the Capitoline Wolf, the Boy with Thorn, and fragments of a colossal statue of Domitian—items that had been kept in the Lateran Palace. What you see today centers on two principal buildings: the Palazzo dei Conservatori and the Palazzo Nuovo, facing each other across Piazza del Campidoglio—a square designed by Michelangelo in 1536 and completed over the following centuries. The collections focus strongly on ancient Rome, especially Roman sculpture, with famous works like the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius and the Dying Gaul, alongside coins and inscriptions that map civic and religious life. …
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