Centrale Montemartini. Industrial archeology meets classic archeology. Centrale Montemartini is one of Rome’s most original museums: it houses about 400 ancient sculptures and floor mosaics inside a former power plant inaugurated in 1912 and inactive since 1963.
Since 1997, Centrale Montemartini has housed part of the huge collection of the Capitoline Museums. Part of the original interior has been preserved: the statues are surrounded by huge dark machinery and low lights. The contrast between antiquity and modernity, art and industry is striking, and it works.
