Editorial
The Museum Barracco is reopening to the public after several years of closure, during which the building has been restored architecturally, brought up to the standard safety regulations and made properly accessible for those who have difficulties of access, a challenging project given the architectural limitations of a sixteenth century building. To this end, reception areas have been created on the ground floor for those of the public with movement difficulties. Using these, it is possible to experience the Barracco Collection through an information post which provides a virtual visit to the museum, to admire several works chosen from the Collection and to access the Barracco Library and the Pollak Library, two important bibliographic collections conserved in the museum. The prestigious collection of antique sculpture donated to the Municipality of Rome by Giovanni Barracco in 1904, generally considered to be one of the most beautiful collections of all Rome’s museums, is, as a result of these recent works, available to a wider public. The eclectic combination of the art-historical importance of the building, a sixteenth century example of the work of the Florentine renaissance, and the archaeological collection of antique sculpture housed in it creates a harmonius atmosphere that can finally be enjoyed also by those who until now were deprived of it.
Maresita Nota Santi, Responsabile Museo Barracco