Roma 3

I know lists are boring, but this is for our record as much as it is for your information. Just enjoy the pictures if you don't want to read anything :)

Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme - Rome's main archaeological museum, it has a great collection of statuary and mosaics/frescoes. The most impressive is an entire chambre with frescoes of a summer garden, built by Augustus for his wife Livia. Several types of trees and specimens of bird are identifiable (including a quince tree, for those of you with a runcible spoon).

Terme di Diocleziano - built on the ruins of a large bath complex, this is another outstanding museum. It has a collection of epigrammtic carvings - which may not sound interesting, but actually provide a lot of information about how the Romans dealt with their slaves, funerary rites, business etc. Notable for a new section devoted to Rome's prehistory.

Pazlazzo Altemps - kind of a poor cousin to the others, this is a museum built from a private collection. Lots of intersting statues (as always, Roman marble copies of Greek bronze originals) but all with out-of-place 18th C restorations (eg new heads, new noses etc)