Where fragments do not survive, the museum displays the corresponding portions of Giovanni Battista Nolli’s “New map of Rome”, published in 1748. The result is a truly fascinating composite of Rome’s urban history across time.

The museum displays most of the surviving fragments beneath a glass floor, which allows visitors to wander and inspect them to their hearts’ content.

Mounted on a wall inside the Temple of Peace in the early third century CE, this monumental plan (about 18m wide and 13m tall) depicted the footprint of Rome and its buildings.

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