A contradictory and complex urban ecosystem, as well as a unique historical and architectural unicum, Rome serves as a benchmark in the global evolution of cities.
However, despite this significance, its connection with other rapidly evolving cities remains mainly undocumented and even less understood.
The exhibition explores the essence of the city, placing it in dialogue with seventeen global metropolises by comparing data and parameters related to city life and its inhabitants. It also explores how past-century artists, writers, and travellers perceived the Eternal City. It presents the perspectives of tourists, migrants, and scholars who experience and interpret the city today.
A mosaic of data, images, documents and works of art takes shape, complemented by an unpublished photographic project, part of the MAXXI Collection. At the centre, a large terracotta model of the Municipality of Rome becomes a platform for exploring the spatial, social and environmental relationships of the city.
Divided into three sections that interact with each other like chapters of a single narrative, the exhibition recounts Rome from complementary perspectives: Global Comparisons, Rome in the World’s Imagination and The DNA of Rome.
A contradictory and complex urban ecosystem, as well as a unique historical and architectural unicum, Rome serves as a benchmark in the global evolution of cities.
However, despite this significance, its connection with other rapidly evolving cities remains mainly undocumented and even less understood.
The exhibition explores the essence of the city, placing it in dialogue with seventeen global metropolises by comparing data and parameters related to city life and its inhabitants. It also explores how past-century artists, writers, and travellers perceived the Eternal City. It presents the perspectives of tourists, migrants, and scholars who experience and interpret the city today.
A mosaic of data, images, documents and works of art takes shape, complemented by an unpublished photographic project, part of the MAXXI Collection. At the centre, a large terracotta model of the Municipality of Rome becomes a platform for exploring the spatial, social and environmental relationships of the city.
Divided into three sections that interact with each other like chapters of a single narrative, the exhibition recounts Rome from complementary perspectives: Global Comparisons, Rome in the World’s Imagination and The DNA of Rome.