Museo Della Civilta Romana
Today we went to the Museo della Civilta Romana. Here we got to see many plaster casts and replicas of sites and statues we had heard about and seen throughout the trip. The most interesting thing in this museum was a cast of Trajan’s Column. The column is broken up into pieces and placed in order around a room in the museum. This allows people to walk around and actually see what the story on the column is. A majority of the column is about Trajan’s victories against the Dacians. It also shows the fruitfulness, fertility and richness of Rome at the time.
Deana Furman and Anthony Arico
Because there were 126 separate casts, I will spare the reader a play-by-play
of the Dacian wars and instead provide this shoddy recreation of the column:
(A scale model showing the main forum in Pompeii.)
(The Temple of Ceres in the middle of the Piazzale delle Corporazioni at Ostia.)
(Adjacent to the room with the column casts was this plethora of models.)
(The grandest model of all was this replica of the entirety of ancient Rome.)
(A detailed Baths of Caracalla reconstruction to make up for the earlier post.)
(This is what the Mausoleum of Augustus would have looked like.)
(Outside the museum was an obelisk from the 1960 Olympics dedicated to Guglielmo Marconi and an installation by Seward Johnson titled, “Awakening.”)
William Skinner
