Capitoline Museums - a group of archaeological museums in Rome, located on the Piazza del Campidoglio square on top of Capitol Hill. The core of the group are the Palazzo dei Conservatori and Palazzo Nuovo, facades facing towards the trapezoidal area, designed by Michelangelo in 1563.

History museums originated in 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV bequeathed the collection of ancient bronzes to the people of Rome. Since then, the collections of museums have grown and expanded to include a huge number of ancient Roman artifacts, works of medieval art and Renaissance art, a collection of jewelry, coins, etc.

In the center of the square stands the equestrian statue of Emperor Marcus Aurelius - a copy and the original is kept in the Capitoline Museum. It must be said that many ancient Roman statues were destroyed on the orders of the Middle Ages, the Christian church, but it has survived - at that time erroneously believed that it was the statue of Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Capitoline Museums are three buildings connected to each other underground gallery under the area - Palazzo SENATOR 12th century Palazzo dei Conservatory mid-16th century, and the Palazzo Nuovo 17th century. In addition, at the beginning of the 20th century museum complex it included a small Palazzo Caffarelli-Clementino, located next to the Palazzo dei Conservatori.

Two floors of the Palazzo Nuovo hold statues, sarcophagi, busts, mosaics and other artifacts of ancient Rome. So, here you can see a marble statue "Dying Gaul", a masterpiece of ancient art, "Cupid and Psyche", a colossal size statue of the Ocean (one of the Titans), and the statue of the Capitoline Venus 4th century BC

The Palazzo dei Conservatory exhibited predominantly Roman sculptures, but there are also Greek and Egyptian. On the second floor is kept the famous bronze she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus and became the symbol of Rome, as well as antique tapestries, frescoes, stucco, etc. The third floor is an art gallery.

A collection of coins, medals, gems and jewelery stores in the neighboring Palazzo Caffarelli-Clementino.

Under the Palazzo dei Conservatori and the area is Kondzhuntsone Gallery, connecting all three buildings - it was built in the 1930s. Today you can see the ruins of Roman dwellings, as well as a collection of inscriptions in hard materials.