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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 04/06/2026 16:39:00

Built to shelter one of the great masterpieces of Roman sculpture, the Ara Pacis Museum stands on the bank of the Tiber in central Rome, housing the reassembled altar of the Augustan peace within a sleek modern building of white travertine, glass and steel. The museum was designed by the American architect Richard Meier and opened in 2006, the first significant new public building in the historic centre of Rome in decades. The altar itself, commissioned by the Roman Senate in 13 BC and dedicate...