Friday 2/6 -- La Centrale Montemartini

La Centrale Montemartini is the second stop of the day. The former power plant on via Ostiense, named after the engineer Montemartini, was used in the 90s to house temporarily the surplus from Musei Capitolini and for an experimental exhibit, then became a permanent museum. Here ancient statues (mostly headless) are intermixed with 1930s steam and diesel engines and other heavy machinery. Looks cute and still reeks of machine oil.



Here is a very modern-looking fanciulla seduta -- a Roman copy from a Greek original (from sala caldaie -- "the hall of the heaters") :



Here is a better picture and other photos.