iCentrale Montemartini is the second venue of Rome's Capitoline Museums, housed in the city's first public electricity plant, built on Via Ostiense in 1911. Since 1997 its turbine hall and boiler room have displayed around 400 classical sculptures, mosaics and inscriptions drawn from the Capitoline collections. The striking dialogue between luminous antique marble and black industrial machinery gives the museum its nickname, "The Machines and the Gods". It remains one of Rome's most atmospheric and uncrowded museums.

Hellenistic marble of Polyhymnia, muse of sacred poetry, leaning pensively on a pillar. Found in Rome in 1928, it is one of the museum's most beloved sculptures.

Red-violet marble satyr Marsyas from the Villa delle Vignacce (excavated 2009), a vivid example of coloured-marble Roman sculpture displayed in the Boiler Room.

Polychrome floor mosaic of the mid-2nd century AD showing Pluto's abduction of Proserpina, framed by busts of the four Seasons, displayed in the Boiler Room.

Imperial-era statue in dark basanite of Agrippina the Younger in a praying pose, found on the Caelian Hill and shown in the Machine Room amid the turbines.
Via Ostiense 106, 00154 Roma RM, Italy
Nearest station: Garbatella (Metro Line B), Piramide (Metro Line B) and Roma Ostiense (rail)
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| Thu | 09:00–19:00 |
| Fri | 09:00–19:00 |
| Sat | 09:00–19:00 |
| Sun | 09:00–19:00 |
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