Caput Mundi: Museum of Roman Civilisation

Caput Mundi Next Generation EU for touristic great events (Mission 1, Component 3, Investment 4.3)

Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan increases the number of accessible tourist sites in Rome, creating valid and qualified tourist and cultural alternatives with respect to the crowded central areas, as well as increasing the use of digital technologies, enhance green areas and the sustainability of tourism. The investment envisages six lines of interventions:
1. “Roman Cultural Heritage for EU-Next Generation”, covering the regeneration and restoration of cultural and urban heritage and complexes of high historical-architectural value of the city of Rome;
2. “Jubilee paths” (from pagan to Christian Rome), targeted to the enhancement, safety, anti-seismic consolidation, restoration of places and buildings of historical interest and archaeological pathways;
3. #LaCittàCondivisa, covering the redevelopment of sites in peripheral areas;
4. #Mitingodiverde, covering interventions on parks, historical gardens, villas and fountains;
5. #Roma 4.0, covering the digitalization of cultural services and the development of apps for tourists;
6. #Amanotesa, aimed at increasing the supply of cultural offer to peripheries for social integration.

The investment is financed by the Recovery and Resilience Facility by EUR 500 million and includes this project.
The project focuses on preserving the building's original character and creating a new exhibition on Roman Civilization. This involves comprehensive structural renovations (roofing, cladding, drainage, damp protection, floor consolidation, asbestos removal, window/door replacement, painting), and implementing an environmental control system for collection preservation and occupant well-being. The collection will be restored, and the museum enhanced with a new exhibition design, restored rooms, public services (bookshop, refreshments), a refurbished library, upgraded systems, and roof access with walkways. This project is financed by the Recovery and Resilience Facility with EUR 20700000Interventions will be aimed at preserving the building organism while respecting its typological, formal, and structural elements. It is planned to renovate the building's critical elements and restore the collection in order to create a new organic exhibition on Roman Civilization. The interventions will be divided as follows:

Preservation of the building: completion of structural renovation works (completion of waterproofing of roofs, renovation of external cladding, renovation of all downspouts and drainage routes, installation of a protection system against rising infiltration, consolidation and renovation of floors where necessary, removal of asbestos components, replacement of all windows and doors, possibly including skylights, painting of the entire interior and exterior surfaces).

Creation of an environmental mitigation system that can induce favorable environmental conditions for the conservation of the collection (Ministerial Decree 10/05/2001) and the well-being of workers and the public (Legislative Decree 81/2008).

Conservation of the collection: restoration of damaged works.

Enhancement: elaboration of an exhibition design on the basis of the museological project provided by the scientific management of the museum. The project for the fitting out and overhaul of the museum's collection exhibition itinerary must include the restoration of the disused rooms, the creation of additional services for the public (bookshop, refreshment area), the restoration of damaged works, the fitting out of the library, the overhaul and integration of the working systems, an access system to the roofs of the north wing and walkways in compliance with standards for walkways on the roof level.