November 2008 Archives

Ara Pacis on Google Earth?

I am trying to load this Ancient Rome 3D in Google Earth - http://earth.google.com/rome/
Has anyone done this? Is the Ara Pacis included? If I can get there I will post a screen shot.

Rome museum blog

The Comune of Rome has a new blog - an official blog - for Rome's museums. This is definitely cool - now I just need to work on my Italian. Link: Blog Musei in Comune Roma

Bruno Munari exhibit at the Ara Pacis Museum

One of the major features of the new Ara Pacis Museum was the alternate spaces for other exhibits and events:

The Musem of the Ara Pacis in Rome is hosting an important exhibition dedicated entirely to versatile Milanese artist – a sculptor, illustrator, graphic artist and industrial designer – Bruno Munari.

The exhibition follows on from an in-depth study and a project refined in the years that followed its inception. It includes some of the artist's most notable works, like his shop window displays from the 40s and 50s, the artistic contributions he made to architectural projects between the 50s and 60s, his graphic design projects and work done in collaboration with some of Italy's most significant cultural contributors in the period following WWII such as Einaudi, La Rinascente, Olivetti and Danese.