Museo dell'Ara Pacis Review

The Peace Altar Museum, right next to the Peace Altar site, is a relatively modern building. The museum is not big and the fare is quite expensive. It is mainly some collections of the Peace Altar. Unfortunately, the guide does not have Chinese.

The peace altar, the outdoor is being repaired, has been fenced, and a museum is open. Compared with the current building, it is all glass exterior walls. The emperor can understand it! The altar was built for him!

ara pacis augustae This is a museum next to the Peace Altar. This name is Latin. The tickets are not cheap. It is more expensive than ordinary museums. The museum is not big. Unfortunately, there is no Chinese guide machine, so I didn’t go in.

Modern glass fencing preserves one of the oldest treasures of ancient Rome, the reconstructed altar of peace, which was commissioned by the Senate in 13BC. The reconstruction has paid a great price. The quality of its marble relief, especially the details of the Augustus family, are vivid.

This monument was built after Augusto emperor will. The museum that contains Ara Pacis is the first architectural space that has been built in the Centre of Rome after the Second World War. The architect is Richard Meier. Before Meier intervention the monument was just there, under the rain, sun, wind. Now it is protected by big glass walls that still let the monument be part of the city as before.