The Gallery of Ancient Marbles is a suggestive space where the marbles dating back to the XVI-XIX centuries are collected, of the utmost importance for the history of the Jewish Community of Rome. Some remember the legacies of wealthy families, others document the...
Renaissance velvets decorated with gold threads, embroideries and lace of the Baroque age, French eighteenth-century lampas: a world of grace and richness that has come down to us from the age of the ghetto. The museum has about 900 fabrics, some of which are...
Gravestones from tombstones from the catacombs of Rome and from the synagogue of Ostia Antica, manuscripts from the Middle Ages, city plans characterize this room in which the origin of the presence, unbroken for over two thousand years, of the Jews in the city of...
It is the room dedicated to the events that mark the time of Judaism: prayer, the Sabbath, the annual Jewish holidays and the cycle of life. In each showcase the recurrences of the calendar that characterize the life of the Jews are explained and represented through...
Silver, precious fabrics and polychrome marbles: the room is a tribute to the objects that the Jews of the ghetto donated to their synagogues and the occasion to explain their use within the liturgical celebrations of the Jewish...
Language and cuisine, urban space and architecture, education and assistance bodies: everyday life in the ghetto in Rome narrated through objects and...
