National Museum of Rome - Terme di Diocleziano

The Terme di Diocleziano is one of the four buildings which are part of the National Museum of Rome, along with Palazzo Massimo, Palazzo Altemps and Crypta Balbi. The Terme di Diocleziano was the original home of the National Museum of Rome, from 1889. It today houses sculptures, a section of proto-history of the Latin peoples, and a section on written communication in the Roman world. Also you can see the Michelangelo Cloister, with funerary monuments around the outside of it, and the 7 huge animal heads from the Temple of Divine Trajan in the center, and finally the spectacular Hall X of the Baths of Diocletian, an impressively huge hall with special displays inside.

Because of that final Hall X, I would rate this museum as a second-tier museum, nearly as good as the National Museum of Rome - Palazzo Massimo. Since the two museums are covered by the same admission charge, and only a block apart from each other, you can easily tack this museum onto the back of a visit to the National Museum of Rome - Palazzo Massimo and spend the full 90 minutes I suggest, or just see Hall X for 20 minutes, whatever suits your timing needs and interests best.

Enter the museum on the side of the building on Viale Enrico de Nicola. You'll pass through a The Garden of the Cinquecento where you'll find the huge marble Krater in the 1st photo below, 6-feet tall, at the center of a round fountain. The entrance to the museum is near where the two people in the background are standing.

The Entrance Hall displays several sculptures and other artefacts. The marble statue of Junius Brutus is not from ancient times, but rather a sculpture inspired by the Capitoline Brutus.

The next section of the museum is the most "museum-like" part, an indoor section divided into rooms. It's called the Epigraphic Museum since it displays many inscriptions. Room V of the epigraph museum, split between the ground floor and the mezzanine, and subsequent rooms contain many sculptures of the Emperors, and that was my favorite part of the Epigraphic Museum. The photos below are from the Epigraphic Museum.

The portion of a pediment which portrayed the goddess Ceres dressed in a lightweight tunic, which once occupied the area of the Baths of Diocletian, now in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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The inscription recording that Diocletian and Maximian dedicated the Baths of Diocletian to their Romans, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Bust of Antoninus Pius portrayed as an Arval Brother, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Bust of Lucius Verus portrayed as an Arval Brother, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Fasti (calendar listing festivals) during Tiberius reign, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Bust of Vespasian, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Head of Marcus Aurelius on an extraneous bust, from the House of the Vestal Virgins in the Roman Forum, now in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Bust of Marcus Aurelius from the impluvium of the Roman villa on Via Anagnina, circa 161 AD, now in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Calendar from 183 and 186 AD, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Juvenile bust of Caracalla, from the House of the Vestal Virgins in the Roman Forum, now in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Bust of Caracalla, from the House of the Vestal Virgins in the Roman Forum, now in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Bust of Lucius Verus, from the impluvium of the Roman Villa on Via Anagnina, now in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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A statue wearing a toga, with a different head, on whose right side there is a casket full of volumes representing copies of imperial letters, from the 3rd century AD, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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A slave's iron collar with a bronze plate from the 4th-6th century AD, in Room VIII of the Epigraphic Museum in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian). The inscription requests whoever sees the would-be runaway slave to bring him back to his owner, Zonius, for the reward of a gold coin.
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Relief from a funeral monument, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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A temple reconstructedin 51 AD by Emperor Claudius at his own expense after a fire. It might be the Temple of the Curiae Veteres, an ancient sanctuary believed to be founded by Romulus, or it might be the shrine consecrated to the memory of Augustus by his wife Livia, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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The bronze base dedicated to Tiberius in the shrine of the Curiae Veteres, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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The marble base dedicated to Augustus, Claudius, Nero and Agrippina in the shrine of the Curiae Veteres, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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The Consular Fasti between 43 BC and 3 AD, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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A base dedicated to Marcus Aurelius, who was not yet emperor, by the senate of Fidene, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian). The title of Caesar indicates his nomination as successor to his adopted father Antoninus Pius.
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Sarcophagus of Julius Achilleus with pastoral scenes, in Room VI of the Epigraphic Museum of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian). His wife dedicated this sarcophagus. He was a superintendant of the gladiatorial barracks of Rome at the Ludus Magnus.
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Figure of Victory on white, within the red circle, from the 2nd-3rd century AD, found on Via di Fori Imperiali, now in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Fresco of a woman, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Frescoes of Animals, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Dedication from the house of the Aradii, from October 5th, 321 AD, now in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Head and Inscription of a statue given by Marcus Vibrius Marcellus to his legion commander Lucius Cornelius Pusio in about 55 AD, on his return from battles in Germany, now in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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The Tabula of the Ligures Baebiani, showing a list of non repayable loans granted to landowners in the area and secured by mortgages on land value, established by Trajan in 101 AD, now in Room VII of the Epigraphic Museum in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Mosaic of a man, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Another part of the museum is outdoors, Michelangelo's Cloister, so named because Michelangelo did at least the preliminary design of this cloister for the Church of Madonna degli Angeli before his death in 1564. The 1st photo below gives perhaps the best overview of the square cloister, and following photos show some more detailed views. The porticoes on the four sides contain sculptures, sarcophagi, and statue bases.

The center of the cloister has a fountain (1st photo below) surrounded by colossal heads of 7 animals (a Ram, an Elephant, a Rhinoceros, a Camel, a Horse, a Bull and an Ox) which were found in 1586 in an place suggesting they were originally inside the no-longer-existing Temple of Divine Trajan, in Trajan's Forum, except for the Rhino and Elephant heads which were carved during the Renaissance period. In 1878 the heads were moved to the Roman College, and they were moved in the early 1900s to the Michelangelo Cloister, circling the fountain of the garden which was built in 1695.

The fountain at the center of the Michelangelo Cloister of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Ram Head, originally from inside the Temple of Divine Trajan, now in the center of the Michelangelo Cloister of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Elephant Head, originally from inside the Temple of Divine Trajan, now in the center of the Michelangelo Cloister of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Rhinoceros Head, originally from inside the Temple of Divine Trajan, now in the center of the Michelangelo Cloister of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Camel Head, originally from inside the Temple of Divine Trajan, now in the center of the Michelangelo Cloister of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Horse Head, originally from inside the Temple of Divine Trajan, now in the center of the Michelangelo Cloister of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Bull Head, originally from inside the Temple of Divine Trajan, now in the center of the Michelangelo Cloister of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Ox Head, originally from inside the Temple of Divine Trajan, now in the center of the Michelangelo Cloister of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Michelangelo's Cloister, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Camel Head and Horse Head, originally from inside the Temple of Divine Trajan, now in the center of the Michelangelo Cloister of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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On the upper floor of the arcades Michelangelo's Cloister is a Museum of Prehistory which I didn't find interesting or photograph.

There is also a Small Cloister next to the Michelangelo Cloister. The small cloister of the charterhouse occupies around a third of the area previously occupied by the natatio (swimming pool) of the Baths of Diocletian. It was originally built alongside the church. Construction began in the mid-16th century but continued beyond the 17th century. The late 16th-century travertine well in the centre was added during the recent renovation of the cloister.

Next is the Aule delle Olearie section of the museum, my favorite section by far. These were the storage facilities created by Pope Clement XIII in some of the former halls of the Baths of Diocletian. These large halls (numbered Hall I to XI), most of them without roof cover, have been part of the museum since 1911. Beside displaying the architecture of the Baths themselves, they hold extremely significant artefacts, as shown in the photos below, displayed in the order I happened to travel through them. In the captions, I noted the Hall number where I have actually been able to identify which hall it was in. I cannot do this for most of the photos.

First I'm starting (uncertainly) with a section of the Forma Urbis and the cast of the Lapis Niger Cippus in the model of the Volcanal. The Lapis Niger is believed to be the 5th century BC gravestone of Rome's first king, Romulus. Believed to be the oldest known Latin inscription and dating back to the second quarter of the sixth century BC, the inscribed cippus reads vertically and in boustrophedon, an archaic technique in which the words are written from right to left and then from left to right in alternating lines. The Volcanal is a monument buried under the paving stones in front of the Roman Forum's Curia, called the Comitium. After that is 8 more photos from the same area of the museum. I'm separating these out from Hall I to XI because I'm not sure exactly where they are - they might even be in the Epigraphic Museum, but they're somewhere before Hall IX.

Forma Urbis fragment north of Tiber Island, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Model of the Volcanal, buried under the Comitium, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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A cast of a Cippus (engraved tombstone) from the 6th century BC, found in the Volcanal, beneath the Comitium, in front of the Curia in the Roman Forum, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Temple of Mater Matuta, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Ancient safety pin, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Dedication to the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux, twin sons of Zeus) from the Sanctuary of Thirteen Altars ad Lavinium, during the second half of the 6th century BC, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian). This is the oldest evidence in Latium of the cult of the twins, called Castores by the Romans. In 484 BC a temple to them was built in the Roman Forum.
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The inscription, rex, on this fragment of a cup, indicates the owner was one of the last kings of Rome, or the rex sacrorum, the priest who took over the king's sacred functions after the establishment of the Republic, found in the Regia of the Roman Forum, from the end of the 6th century BC, now in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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A marble basin, now in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian), used as a fountain at the Temple of Hercules at Borgo San Giovanni near Lavunium is inscribed on the lip using letters incised and then infilled with bronze - prehaps the most ancient known example of this technique - reading that the aedilis L. Scantius had this basin made, and also made provision for the water supply to the temple
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Relief from a funeral monument, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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In this frieze from the 3rd century AD in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian), a dockworker is unloading food supplies from a boat in Ostia. He is holding a barrel on his shoulder, and the permit to unload foodstuffs in a scroll in his right hand. In Ostia, little boats were iindispensible for unloading ships since the harbor was too shallow for large ships to enter.
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Statue from the Mithraeum of the Castra Peregrinorum under the church of St Stefano Rotondo on the Celian Hill, now in Hall IX of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Relief from the Mithraeum of the Castra Peregrinorum under the church of St Stefano Rotondo on the Celian Hill, now in Hall IX of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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The gold-plated bronze statuette represents a veiled male figure wrapped in snake coils. The statue, an oriental deity not precisely identified, was found sealed in a ritual burial pit inside an altar together with offerings such as eggs, seeds and flowers. On the occasion of the annual ceremonies the statuette was extracted, exposed to the followers and re-buried to symbolize death and rebirth of the god, patron of the endless cycles of nature, and promise of resurrection. Found on the Syrian Sanctuary of the Janiculum Hill, from the mid-4th century AD, now in Hall IX of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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The funeral stele of Licinia Amias contains one of the most ancient Christian inscriptions in Rome, translated as 'fish of the living' with the word fish being an acrostic of the name of Jesus Christ, and the second term connected with salvation, in Hall IX of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Early Christian symbols in Rome, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Early Christian symbols in Rome, in Hall IX of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian). The top one is a slab carved with the scene of Noah on the Ark, taken from Genesis.
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Early Christian symbols in Rome, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Large marble relief of Mithras, illustrating the slaying of the bull inside a grotto, from the late 2nd or early 3rd century AD, in Hall IX of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian). The relief was found in 1964 at Tor Cervara, broken into at least 50 pieces by explosion of a WWII piece of ordnance. The deity's head had ended up in the Karlsruhe Museum in Germany, but the museum returned the fragment so the relief could be reconstructed in its entirety.
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Statue of Mithras siezing the bull by the nostrils and thrusting a knife into its neck, while a dog licks the blood gushing from the wound and a scorpion chops off the bull's testicles, from the 4th century AD, in Hall IX of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Marble Mithraic Relief, with substantial remains of original color and gilding, illustrating the slaughtering of the bull by the god Mithras, from the 3rd century AD, in Hall IX of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Fresco, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Newly-excavated Natatio from the Baths of Diocletian, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Mosaic from the newly-excavated Natatio from the Baths of Diocletian, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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The newly-excavated Natatio from the Baths of Diocletian, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Newly-excavated Natatio from the Baths of Diocletian, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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The newly-excavated Natatio from the Baths of Diocletian, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Wall surrounding the newly-excavated Natatio from the Baths of Diocletian, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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The newly-excavated Natatio from the Baths of Diocletian, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Original floor tiles in the newly-excavated Natatio from the Baths of Diocletian, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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The newly-excavated Natatio from the Baths of Diocletian, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Unidentified reconstructed doorway, in Hall VIII of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Basin in yellow giallo antico marble, from a villa beneath the Baths of Diocletian, 2nd century AD, in Hall VIII of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Basin in marble imported from Asia Minor, decorated with Lions' heads, of a type often used in the decoration of Roman baths. 2nd century AD, possibly from the Baths of Constantine, in Hall VIII of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Hall VIII of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Granite basin decorated with two rings and a lion's head, from the Baths of Diocletian in the late 3rd century AD, in Hall VIII of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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The Charterhouse Gateway, a monumental portal made of marble and travetine which formed the entrance to the Charterhouse of Santa Maria degli Angeli, and testifies to the progressive spoliation of the Baths' decorations, in Hall VIII of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Hall VIII of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Hall IX in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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A sarcophagus donated by two Roman citizens originated Greek to their friend Titus Flavius Trophimas. At the sides of the inscription there are on the left a cobbler and a spinner, on the right a dancer and a player portrayed. The scenes refer to the deceased and dedicators' work and, perhaps, to their artistic interests or their adhesion to the cult of Isis. From 98-117 AD, now in Hall IX of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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A fragment of two registers, portraying gladiators fighting. The inscription shows two gladiator names, Scolasticus and Damascenus. The theta sign indicates that Damascenus died in the fight. From the end of the 3rd century AD, now in Hall IX of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Palazzi degli Ambasciatori and archway over Via Dora, at the entrance to the Coppede neighborhood of Rome
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A burial inscription put up by Emperor Claudius' freedman, Ti Claudius Eudaemon, head of one of the decuriae in which the emperor's waiters were subdivided. He had the task of coordinating the servants who worked in private rooms. From 41-54 AD, now in Hall IX of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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A slab placed by Ulpia Priscilla for her husband Aphetus, an imperial freedman, whose duty it was to compile the emperor's guest lists, with a patera with a downflow of holes in the center, from the first half of the 2nd century AD, now in Hall IX of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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An urn of Servandus Agathopodianus, the Emperor Vespasian's slave. Under the inscription there is a cupid with his arms straightened towards a cist where a snake is coming out from, perhaps it is an allusion to the cult of Isis. From 69-79 AD, now in Hall IX of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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One of four sides of an unidentified monument in Hall IX of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Medusa mosaic in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Hall X of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Know Thyself mosaic, from the Appian Way, in Hall X of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Hall X of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Know Thyself mosaic, from the Appian Way, in Hall X of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Hall X of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Sculpture in Hall X of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Tomb of the Platorini in Hall X of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Tomb with Stuccos, from the Necropolis in Via Portuense, now in Hall X of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Tomb with Paintings, from the Necropolis in Via Portuense, now in Hall X of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Funerary relief with three portraits (parents and daughter) and one incomplete portrait, from the Appian Way, 40 BC, in Hall X of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Funerary relief with four figures, from the so-called Tomb of the Frontispiece on the Appian Way, 30 BC, in Hall X of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Funerary relief with four figures, on the Appian Way, 40 BC, in Hall X of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Virile statue, the so-called Sulpicius Platorinus in heroic nudity, from the age of Tiberius, in Hall X of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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A bust of Demeter in beige clay worked by fettling and die. The divinity who is dressed in a chitone and cloak, with a rich hairstyle in bands which are kept by a strip and ornated with an ears of corn diadem. She is richly adorned with rosette earings and a long pyramidal pendant and a torques with a snake's head at the end, from the 4th-3rd century BC, now iin the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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A bust of Kore in beige terracotta worked by fettling and die. The divinity who is dressed in a cloak and ornated with Magna Grecia like jewels, presents a rich hairstyle with her locks divided in wavey bands kept by a hairband and tied with some ears of corn, from the 4th-3rd century BC, now iin the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Statue of Aphrodite from the 2nd century AD, inspired by a greek model dating from the 5th century BC, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Model of the Baths of Diocletian, in the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Funeral relief from the Tomb of Ilario Fusco on the Appian Way, with three niches and five figures, from 40-30 BC, in Hall X of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Sarcophagus with garlands, with cupids and scenes of sacrifice, found on Via Labicana, from 140-150 AD, in Hall X of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Mosaic with Troilus Fallen off the Chariot, 3rd century AD, in Hall XI of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian). From Virgil's Aeneid, the young Trojan prince Troilus, stabbed by Achilles (in the upper part), hangs from his chariot, his spear scribbling in the dust, while his horses flee.
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Mosaic with Hercules and Achelous, 3rd century AD, from Nero's Villa in Anzio, now in Hall XI of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian). Hercules, recognizable by the club and lion's skin, holds the horn he tore off the bleeding head of the River-God Achelous, defeated in the contest for the hand of the princess Deianira.
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Hall XI of the National Museum of Rome, Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian)
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Location::	41.90363, 12.49882 On the right half of the side of the Baths of Diocletian complex which faces the Termini train station
Metro::	Repubblica
Time::	2 hours
Cost::	€10, includes admission to the other three buildings of the National Museum of Rome
Hours::	Tuesday - Sunday, 9:00 AM - 7:45 PM
Audio Guide::	Yes, for €5