InGenioVisionary ideas from the Archive
MAXXI Architettura archive centre
curated by Tullia Iori
Monday closed
Tuesday to Sunday 11 am – 7 pm
the ticket office is open until 1 hour before the Museum closing
Saturday 24 December 11 am – 4 pm
Sunday 25 December closed
Monday 26 December 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday 31 December 11 am – 4 pm
Monday 2 January 11 am – 7 pm
Friday 6 January 11 am – 7 pm
the only open ticket, valid for one entry to the Museum and all current exhibitions for the next 100 years, until 2121.
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for young people aged between 14 and 25 (not yet turned 25); for groups of 15 people or more; registered journalists with a valid ID card; La Galleria Nazionale, Museo Ebraico di Roma, Villa Medici: Accademia di Francia a Roma ticket holders; Palazzo delle Esposizioni and Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini ticket holders on the occasion of the exhibition “Pier Paolo Pasolini. Tutto è Santo” from 19 October 2022 to 12 March 2023; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Accademia Costume & Moda, Accademia Fotografica, Biblioteche di Roma, Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Enel (for badge holder and accompanying person), FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano, IED – Istituto Europeo di Design, IN/ARCH – Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Interclub Welfare Card, ISFCI – Istituto Superiore di Fotografia, Sapienza Università di Roma, LAZIOcrea, Officine Fotografiche, Ordine degli Assistenti Sociali, Ordine dei Medici Chirurghi e degli Odontoiatri, Ordine Psicologi Lazio, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Amici di Palazzo Strozzi, Rinascente, Romaeuropa Festival, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Scuola Internazionale di Comics, Teatro Olimpico, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro di Roma, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Youthcard.
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minors under 14 years of age; disabled people requiring companion; EU Disability Card holders and accompanying person; MiC employees; European Union tour guides and tour guides, licensed (ref. Circular n.20/2016 DG-Museums); 1 teacher for every 10 students; ICOM members; AMACI members; accredited journalists; myMAXXI membership cardholders; European Union students and university researchers in Art and Architecture, public fine arts academies (AFAM registered) students and Temple University Rome Campus students from Tuesday to Friday (excluding holidays); IED – Istituto Europeo di Design professors, NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti professors, RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts professors; upon presentation of ID card or badge – valid for two: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim a Venezia, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Sotheby’s Preferred, MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie; on your birthday presenting an identity document; Tuesday to Thursday for admission to Gallery 1 hosting the exhibition What a Wonderful World.
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available at the Museum ticket office.
available at the Museum ticket office.
for young people aged between 14 and 25 (not yet turned 25); for groups of 15 people or more; registered journalists with a valid ID card; La Galleria Nazionale, Museo Ebraico di Roma, Villa Medici: Accademia di Francia a Roma ticket holders; Palazzo delle Esposizioni and Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini ticket holders on the occasion of the exhibition “Pier Paolo Pasolini. Tutto è Santo” from 19 October 2022 to 12 March 2023; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Accademia Costume & Moda, Accademia Fotografica, Biblioteche di Roma, Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Enel (for badge holder and accompanying person), FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano, IED – Istituto Europeo di Design, IN/ARCH – Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Interclub Welfare Card, ISFCI – Istituto Superiore di Fotografia, Sapienza Università di Roma, LAZIOcrea, Officine Fotografiche, Ordine degli Assistenti Sociali, Ordine dei Medici Chirurghi e degli Odontoiatri, Ordine Psicologi Lazio, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Amici di Palazzo Strozzi, Rinascente, Romaeuropa Festival, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Scuola Internazionale di Comics, Teatro Olimpico, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro di Roma, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Youthcard.
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minors under 14 years of age; disabled people requiring companion; EU Disability Card holders and accompanying person; MiC employees; European Union tour guides and tour guides, licensed (ref. Circular n.20/2016 DG-Museums); 1 teacher for every 10 students; ICOM members; AMACI members; accredited journalists; myMAXXI membership cardholders; European Union students and university researchers in Art and Architecture, public fine arts academies (AFAM registered) students and Temple University Rome Campus students from Tuesday to Friday (excluding holidays); IED – Istituto Europeo di Design professors, NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti professors, RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts professors; upon presentation of ID card or badge – valid for two: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim a Venezia, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Sotheby’s Preferred, MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie; on your birthday presenting an identity document.
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MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
MAXXI Architettura archive centre
curated by Tullia Iori
Monday closed
Tuesday to Sunday 11 am – 7 pm
the ticket office is open until 1 hour before the Museum closing
Saturday 24 December 11 am – 4 pm
Sunday 25 December closed
Monday 26 December 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday 31 December 11 am – 4 pm
Monday 2 January 11 am – 7 pm
Friday 6 January 11 am – 7 pm
A selection of all that can be found in the visionary papers of 20th century Italian engineers such as Pier Luigi Nervi, Sergio Musmeci and many others.
MAXXI’s Archive is the privileged place to discover the ideas of brilliant engineers that were ahead of their times. Ideas once judged impossible that could perhaps be realised today. Projects that remained on paper but often arrived too early, when the technology to realise them was not available or the economic conditions did not favour their shift from fantasy to reality.
The exhibition ties in with Technoscape as it acts as a bridge between the past and the future. The engineers of history had visions of the future, they imagined it, they tried to anticipate it, which is why the Future is also kept in the Archives.
header: Sergio Musmeci con Ludovico Quaroni, Progetto per il ponte sullo stretto di Messina, 1969. Archivio Sergio Musmeci, Collezione MAXXI Architettura, Fondazione MAXXI Roma.