Museo della Via Ostiense
Archaeological museum inside Porta San Paolo, in the Mura Aureliane (Aurelian Walls) near the Piramide Cestia (Pyramid of Cestius), on the ancient Via Ostiense; currently closed to the public.
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About the museum
The museum is housed in Porta San Paolo, one of the main gates of the Mura Aureliane, built in the 3rd century AD. The current name dates from the Middle Ages, when the gate was linked to the nearby basilica of San Paolo; the gate has two arches, from which the ancient Via Ostiense and Via Laurentina set out. The building, next to the Piramide Cestia, preserves its history from the Roman period to the Second World War.
The collections document the area between Rome and Ostia along the Via Ostiense and include three decorated arcosolia and paintings from a 3rd-century tomb found near the basilica of San Paolo, casts of inscriptions, funerary cippi, reliefs, sarcophagi, imperial portraits and mosaics, including an opus sectile of the 4th century, as well as prints and photographs. Two large models show ancient Ostia and the imperial harbours of Claudius and Trajan.
In the eastern tower there are frescoes from the late 13th and early 14th century, from a chapel used by a Byzantine community.
Highlights
- Located in Porta San Paolo of the Aurelian Walls, next to the Piramide Cestia
- Three arcosolia and paintings from a 3rd-century tomb near San Paolo
- Models of ancient Ostia and of the harbours of Claudius and Trajan
- Late 13th- and early 14th-century frescoes of the Byzantine chapel in the eastern tower
Permanent exhibition
- Collezione sulla via Ostiense – Finds from the area between Rome and Ostia, models of ancient Ostia and of the imperial harbours, Byzantine frescoes in the eastern tower.
- Operated by
- Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma (Ministero della Cultura)
- Director
- Angelo Pellegrino
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