Inside the World’s First Public Museum： Musei Capitolini, Rome, Italy 🇮🇹

Okay, we are in Rome and we want to go inside Musee Capitolini and there's two buildings on the two sides of the square and we'll start with the left side and then come to the right side and we're excited let's go see what's inside. So the first step is putting our backpacks and jackets in closets so each person in particular gets one of these so they can be more comfortable inside the museum. Mission accomplished. So we're walking on the first hallway up. We are entering so obviously there's a theme in terms of decoration. This museum holds a lot of antiquities. On the right you see Verona and on the walls. So in this museum there's not a lot of explanations on what everything is. It's mainly in Latin and so if you know Latin, you're lucky. If not, you just enjoy the views. One thing that stands out here is the paintings on the walls. Each hall has a lot of paintings and nothing is left alone. Do you know what kind of painting this is? No. It's called a fresco. It is made by putting plaster on the wall and then painting into the plaster while it's still wet so that when it dries it's permanently on there so instead of being like a layer of paint it's embedded in the wall. That's why they last so long. It's cool. Can you tell who this old man is? No. Can you read Greek? I can try sigma o k pass. It looks like a... it's very confusing. What looks like a p is r in Greek. Socrates. And h is eta. It makes ease. Ease? H is eta? Socrates? Wow. Processional chariots for the gods. Has all this metal steel on it. Very intricate. It's cool. I think that's Marcus Aurelius. That's my guess. Marcus Aurelius? Who do you think it is? Oh it's Constantine I think. So there's Constantine's head. There's his hands. Here's his foot. So you can just imagine how big this thing was to have his whole body. Just insane. So did you know that the Capitoline museums are the oldest public collection in the world? It's pretty cool. Okay here we are in front of arguably the most famous statue in Rome which is saying something. It is the she-wolf. This is the founding myth of Rome. So these twin babies Romulus and Remus suckled on the milk from a wolf which made them grow big and strong and allowed them to eventually found Rome. Romulus did that and Rome was named after him in the mythology. An interesting fact is that the provenance of the wolf is pretty highly debated. Some say it's Etruscan. Some say it's medieval. But we know that the babies were added later in the 1400s during the renaissance. So it's actually two separate pieces that were put together to help illustrate this myth. One fun fact about statues is usually they're missing dimples like these two because that's the most fragile part of the statue that cannot survive over years. It falls down. Actually all of them. This one is missing nose too. Huge vase. Survived nose. Who is that? I don't know but the nose survived. Wow this one yeah it has such a big nose. This one doesn't. This one has you know. Who is that? Domitian. Lost the back of his head. Flat. Some remains of the body. This room contains two sarcophagi which are very fancy coffins essentially. Places where a dead body was laid to rest. Obviously someone who had a lot of money because these are pure marble. So this one is interesting because if I'm not mistaken you can still see some remnants of paint. So something that's kind of hard for us to imagine is that most of these marble works were painted. They were very colorful. We in our mind see them as like white and that's a huge part of how we picture them but they were usually very colorful. So here you can see a paint especially in the little grooves of their hair. On this one you can see. So they were often really interesting intricately carved with some kind of story or motif that the deceased connected with. On this part we have a lot of paintings on carpets hanging on the walls. Little porcelain figures. Even the frame is so huge. It's like you took a regular painting. There's the babies. Those two? This painting here is the story of the babies the founders of the Rome and the wolf shown in form of paintings by an artist that I think was somewhere in Netherlands or Spain and came back. Is it Rubens? Let me see. It's Rubens. Nice. You know? Netherlands I think or Belgium but yeah. Belgium and Netherlands yeah. Another Caravaggio and the interesting part is this is the basement of the first building and from the basement it is connected to the other building so we don't have to get out. We just move to the other side. It's just getting dark outside so that's kind of creepy in here but it's nice. So at the end of this aisle there's an open view where you can see the Roman Forum from the museum. So one of the best parts of this museum is it overlooks the Roman Forum and right now it seems like the Roman Forum is closed and there's no one inside and it's such a beautiful view. You can even see the Colosseum in the back. You can see the Colosseum in the back. Yeah and you can actually see the Colosseum in the back in the far end corner left side you can see the Colosseum. If you're interested about the Roman Forum look at the other video that we have. Special exhibit on the floor as well for Cartier Cartier designing crown for the head. This room is full of statues of heads right by the Cartier exhibit. Let's walk through. Okay that's the end of our Capitoline Museum tour. Hope you liked it. Hope you enjoyed the video. Let us know what you think.