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Dear bloggers,

today I would like to introduce you The National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, acronym GNAM.

Address: Viale Delle Belle Arti 131

Opening hours of Museum: Tuesday-Sunday 8.30 a.m. – 7.30 p.m. It’s closed on Mondays.

Getting there: Tram n.3 and 19. Bus n. 88, 95, 490. Underground: Line A, Flaminio stop

The Museum includes words from 19^th and 20^th centuries. It was established in 1883, a few years after the constitution of the young state unitary Italian ( Rome became the capital of Italy in 1870 ) , because he felt the need for a museum dedicated to contemporary artists living or disappeared recently.

The first seat of the gallery was the Palace of Exhibitions of Via Nazionale. From 1915 on it has been based in the monumental building designed by Cesare Bazzani for the 1911 exhibition celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Unity of Italy. Soon, however , the Palazzo delle Esposizioni was evidence insufficient to accommodate paintings and sculptures that over time had increased in number. Then there was another problem : every time you held a temporary exhibition , the exhibits had to be removed . He took the occasion of the International Exhibition of Rome in 1911 ( 50 th of the Unification of Italy ) to build the present building in Valle Giulia as permanent seat of the Gallery.  It is the largest collection of Italian contemporary art . It has over 4,400 works of painting and sculpture and about 13,000 drawings and prints by artists nineteenth and twentieth century . In its 55 rooms you can see the masterpieces of the collection, about 1,100 works . It is the only national museum dedicated entirely to modern art : in many regional capital city there are modern art galleries but are municipal . In 1933 this building became too small to accommodate all the works that had come into the gallery to purchase or donation . Again by Cesare Bazzani she was planned and inaugurated in that year an expansion that doubled the exhibition space ( this corresponds to the rooms of this twentieth century).

The central section is an introduction to the museum. In  room n.1 a group of 19^th century sculptures are reflected in the mirroring floor by Alfredo Pirri, while some other artworks, considered controversial, are displayed in the room called “Excuse me, is that art?”.

Three main chronological paths:

• The first ranges from Neoclassicism to Naturalism (1800-1885),
• The second (1886 – 1924) from Symbolism to Avant-garde and
• The last one (1926-200) from the Return to Order to the 1990s.

The following pictures are some of  works contained in the museum:

I recommended the Museum but I think it’s better to book a guide, because alone it’s very difficult to understand the coherence with the exposition is prepared.

If you want book the ticket, please contact our office!

Thanks for regards

See you soon

Pamela