Capitoline Museums was opened to the public in the year 1734 under Clement XII and the museums are considered the first museum in the world. It is located in Piazza del Campidoglio, 1, 00186, Rome, ITALY.
It is a museum known to be an archaeology, art museum and historic site.
INFORMATION ABOUT CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS
The Capitoline Museums are a single museum containing a group of art and archeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio which is situated on the hill of Capitoline.
The history of the museums is traced to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV donated a collection of important ancient bronzes to the people of Rome and stored them on the Capitoline Hill and since then, it was recorded that the museums' collection has grown to include a large number of ancient Roman statues, inscriptions, and other artifacts; a collection of medieval and Renaissance art; and collections of jewels, coins, and other items and it was since then owned and operated by the municipality of Rome.
The statue of a mounted rider in the centre of the piazza is of Emperor Marcus Aurelius is a copy of its original being housed on-site in the Capitoline museum.
Many Roman statues were destroyed on the orders of Christian Church authorities in the Middle Ages but this statue of the mounted horse was spared from being destroyed, in the erroneous belief that it depicted the Emperor Constantine, who made Christianity the official state religion of the Roman empire.
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