Trajan's Market & Imperial Forum Museum
Trajan's Market and Imperial Forums Museum
BOOKING DETAILS – TRAJAN’S MARKET and IMPERIAL FORUMS MUSEUM- No line entrance
Booking an entrance to the Trajan’s Market, visitors can see this extraordinary monument and the Museum of Imperial Forums set up inside the same complex.
Address: Via IV November, 94, Rome
Closings: January 1, May 1, December 25. On 24 December and 31 December, the museum is open from 09.30 am to 02:00 pm.
Available times: everyday from 09:30 am to 07:30 pm. The ticket is a one-day ticket that permits the entrance from 09:30 am until closure. The museum closes at 7:30 pm. The ticket office closes at 06:30 pm.
Full ticket price: 15,50 € per person (12,50 € + 3,00 € reservation free), except compulsory extras for temporary exhibitions.
REDUCTIONS
Children: Children under 6, get in free and they do not have to make a reservation.
Free tickets: disabled and accompanist; tourist guides of the European Union, tourist interpreters of the European Union, members ICOMOS, members ICOM and ICCROM and members of foreign and national cultural institutes such as Academy Lincei, Roman Studies Institute, Friends of the Museums of Rome.
SCHOOLS: for school guided tour please contact us at the +39 055 2670402 or write us an e-mail to info@italy-travels.it .
TRAJAN’S MARKET
The Markets of Trajan are an archaeological complex with absolutely unique characteristics in Rome. The monument has lived the evolution of the city from the Imperial Age to the present day: strategic administrative center of the Imperial Forum, aristocratic residence, military fortress, prestigious convent and barracks.
Now the Trajan's Market hosts the Museum of the Imperial Forums referred the Markets of Trajan were an integral part.
The extensive complex of Roman buildings in brick, known as Trajan's Market, is miraculously come down to us from the heart of the ancient city, in close connection with the large squares of the Imperial Forums, and still is in the center of the modern city.
IMPERIAL FORUMS MUSEUM
Under the name "Imperial Forums" indicate the five monuments of Imperial commission constructed in topographic continuity with the Roman Forum old Royal-republican and substituted religious, political and administrative.
For their installation it was modified the orography and were sacrificed parts inhabited and public structures, even sacred. Every complex was designed in conceptual and physical relationship with the previous ones, and they communicated through openings on various sides.
From the viewpoint urban and architectural, the Imperial Forums are monumental squares arcaded with exedra, with axial and centralized installation; a quadrangular shape, have dimensions and orientation different, in relation to the spaces and, in part, to a preexisting structure; the end wall was emphasized by the temple dedicated to the protecting divinity of Emperor, whose presence was evoked repeatedly by his representation on horseback or in a quadriga, the inscriptions with the name and symbolic references of iconography and decorative motifs.
The Museum of the Imperial Forums finds its ideal location within the monumental complex of the Trajan's Market. The museum proposes to illustrate the architecture of the ancient Imperial Forums and their architectural and sculptural decoration.
