Suggested route

The permanent exhibition of the National Museum of Roman Art is divided into three floors: ground, first and second. Each floor is further divided into ten sections. On the ground floor, rooms are distributed to the left and the right of the central nave. To the left, raised pedestals display larger and more notable pieces. To the right, there is a set of corridors linked together by a gallery. The numbering of each of the rooms is indicated at the start of each of these corridors. The two other floors follow the same layout as the right side of the ground floor. The ideal path through the exhibition is as follows: on the first floor, the rooms should be visited in reverse order (IX, VIII, VII…), while on the second floor, they should be visited in numerical order.

The ground floor and the second floor are both arranged thematically, while the first floor holds smaller pieces ordered by type. All the floors open onto the central nave as well as a small balcony that adjoins the exhibition rooms on all three floors. From here, you can see certain mosaics that, due to their enormous size, are displayed vertically. There are stairs connecting the floors at both ends of each floor as well as a lift located at the front of the nave.

The Museum Crypt is separate from the content of the exhibition rooms, so it can be visited either before or after them, although we recommend that you visit the crypt first. Similarly, after leaving the main building, we suggest visiting the Visigothic Collection found in the Church of Santa Clara, which is linked to the contents of Room VIII on the second floor.