In 1927, count Giuseppe Primoli (1851 – 1927) son of count Pietro Primoli and princess Carlotta Bonaparte, presented the city of Rome with his important collection of works of art, Napoleonic curios, family memoirs and the rooms on the ground floor of his palace, where they are still kept today. The collection was not intended to offer a picture of the imperial fame of the Bonaparte family but rather to tell the story from a private point of view, almost day by day and to document the intense relationship between Bonaparte and Rome. The Museum collections cover three distinct periods: the actual Napoleonic period, the so-called ‘Roman’ period, following the events of the family after the fall of Napoleon up to the rise of Napoleon III and the period of the second Empire.
The Napoleonic Museum is on the ground floor of Palazzo Primoli constructed in the 16th Century. From the 1st of June 1995, on the third floor, there is the seat of the Mario Praz Museum belonging to the Galleria d’Arte Moderna. This is a house-museum comprising about a thousand of works – furniture, paintings, terracotta, bronzes, miniatures and silver articles from the end of the XVIII to the first half of the XIX Centuries, collected by Mario Praz (1896 – 1982) Anglicist and art critic. The fact that these two institutions exist together in the same Palazzo is a unique example of great interest for artistic, literal and historical studies of the XIX Century.
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Palazzo Primoli
Piazza di Ponte Umberto I, 1
00186 Roma
Tel. 06.68806286/066876331
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