Particular museums

The Toys Museum is located inside Palazzo Rospigliosi in the center of the town of Zagarolo.

It is the largest theme museum in Italy and one of the most important in Europe.

The museum path winds along 17 exhibition halls that tell the story and the evolution of the toy during the twentieth century.

A great deal of attention has been given to the link between toy and social and cultural reality, and the museum hosts rotary thematic exhibitions of collectors.

The Historical Museum of the Military Air Force of Bracciano is in the military base which is the oldest seaplane base in Italy right on Lake Bracciano where in 1908 the first Italian military airship was built and flew.

This flight inaugurated the Bracciano-Vigna di Valle airport, the oldest Italian airport infrastructure.

The museum was opened in 1977 and is managed directly by the Air Force in the spaces that housed the Aeronautical Experimental Center, the Experimental Center for Seaplanes and naval armament, a Maritime Fighter department and finally a rescue flight group. airplane.

The museum houses important collections of photographic equipment, radioelectric equipment, weapons, individual and collective on-board equipment.

The more than 60 aircraft are located in 4 large hangars and among these airships and airplanes from the First World War, those of General Nobile's flights to the Polo up to the Second World War and the first jet aircraft. One section is dedicated to Fiat aircraft.

You can admire numerous objects and relics related to aeronautics, many from private collections. One section is dedicated to the influence of aviation in figurative art with works of futurism and contemporary painting. Among the activities to underline those relating to the recovery and restoration of historic aircraft.

In the museum there is the "Umberto Nobile" Documentation Center and all the uniforms from the aeronautics from the beginning up to the present day are also exhibited.

 In Bagnoregio, the Piero Taruffi Museum exhibits cars and automotive models linked to the life of the racing driver Piero Taruffi.

Piero Taruff was a pilot born in Albano Laziale in 1906, who in 1931 participated in several Formula 1 Grand Prix races in the Enzo Ferrari team.

In addition to the models and documents, there are a series of cars that are part of the history of the Rally in the '70s and' 80s including a Fiat 131 Abarth, a Fiat 124 Abarth Spider, a Lancia Fulvia Hf 1600 "Fanalona", a Lancia Stratos, a Lancia Rally 037 and Gianfranco Cunico's Fiesta GR 2.

Inside it is possible to admire the permanent exhibition entitled "IL BISILURO AI RAGGI X - Anatomy of a fireball"

The museum is located in the former municipal slaughterhouse in via Fidanza 55.
 

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was one of the most important composers of the Renaissance.

In the fifteenth house of his birthplace, three levels have been turned into a museum.

It houses an important musicological library with hundreds of editions from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in addition to about seven thousand volumes on musical culture.

The Foundation Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was born in January 1973, it operates the museum and organizes events.

The main room (Sala Cingolani) hosts seminars, conferences and small concerts.

Castro dei Volsci- Mostra Nino by Bettiol

'Nino!'. There is a permanent exhibition dedicated to Nino Manfredi, the great Italian actor born in Castro dei Volsci.

The exhibition is located in the Clock Tower that houses a Cultural Centre and tells in photography the public and private life of the great Italian actor.

Inside the castle of Fumone there is the house-museum belonging to the great archaeologist Giuseppe Marchetti Longhi and his wife Ada.

The house was donated to the town and the museum represents a classic nineteenth-century bourgeois apartment, with outstanding testimonies. In addition to its original furniture.

It contains: a collection of 19th century lead soldiers, a Kashmir tapestry obtained in London in the 1861 exhibition and the wedding dress worn by Emilia Caetani (sister of the Duke of Sermoneta).

Torre Cajetani- Museo dellOperetta di Sandro Massimini by Bettiol

The Operetta Museum is named after Sandro Massimini, the most famous Italian interpreter of this art form, and is located in a palace in the center of Torre Cajetani.

In addition to his own collection he collected theatres with puppets and hand puppets made since 1600.

Operetta had helped change the face of Europe by the early twentieth century. The story of the museum is spread along an arc of more than hundred and fifty years of operetta.

There are stories from the most illustrious personalities of the Italian spectaculars such as Wanda Osiris, Carlo Dapporto, Walter Chiari and Sophia Loren.

In an audio-visual room, you can see the most famous and representative performances.

The museum of the Mountain, transhumant and painters is dedicated to the dual personality of pastoral life in Cervara di Roma.

On one hand the herding of animals by men who are absent for months, on the other the lives of women with local costumes, related jewellery and the ‘ex voto’ dedicated to the sanctuary of Madonna della Portella.

The two paths of life are described: that of the shepherds who drove their flocks to the sea, and that of the painters, who came from the city to paint here.

For this, in the museum, a large space is dedicated to all the artists who for centuries have represented Cervara in their works.

The museum is located in the Collegiate.