Crypta Balbi Museum In Rome, Italy Editorial Photo

Model of the so called complex of the Crypta Balbi in the Crypta Balbi Roman National Museum in Rome, Italy. The model represents the evolution in the 17th century with the convent of Santa Catrina dei Funari occupying the 7000 square meters of the archeological area s occupied in the Roman time by a large colonnaded courtyard annexed to the theater of Balbus. The Crypta Balbi Museum is housed in a part of the Conservatory of Santa Caterina dei Funari`s Convent, a complex which includes two houses of medieval origin on Via Botteghe Oscure and the `Barberini dormitory` on Via Caetani. The archaeological excavation can be considered one of the most successful projects of urban archeology started in the 1980s to understand the various building phases of the area and the continuity of its life from Roman times to the present.