When you go about listing in a guidebook all the myriad things there are to do in Rome, the city’s house museums, as the New York Times points out, rarely make the cut. In the Unofficial Guide to Central Italy, we do make mention of the art gallery in Palazzo Colonna, which includes Annibale Carracci’s Bean Eater, the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, with Velazquez’s portrait of Innocent X, and the Keats-Shelley Memorial House, the little pink home next to the Spanish Steps where John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley once lived.
The Times piece is a nice supplement to the Unofficial Guide. In addition to the galleries mentioned above, Times’ writer Andrew Ferren profiles Palazzo Spada, Palazzo Corsini, Palazzo Barberini, and The Napoleonic Museum. Note that the Spada, Corsini, and Barberini galleries are managed under the Galleria Borghese umbrella. Ferren also writes about Palazzo Altemps, now part of the National Roman Museum, a complex that got the full update treatment in the latest edition of the UGCI.
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