Trajan's Markets & the Museum of Imperial Forums

This booking is for a pre-paid ticket for one admission to archaeological complex of the Trajan's Markets and to the Imperial Forums Museum. All the accessible areas can be visited with this ticket, including scheduled exhibitions.
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Entry tickets to Trajan's Market Complex, once booked, may not be changed in any way or canceled.
Once booked, these tickets cannot be changed. We, therefore, suggest you pay very close attention during the online booking process when choosing the date, time, and type of tickets.

You must go through security checks at the metal detectors. The wait for these mandatory procedures cannot be avoided. It is mandatory to check items such as suitcases, backpacks, strollers, trolleys, umbrellas, and other items the security staff consider dangerous or too bulky.
The ticket allows you to access to museums only once.
Do not forget to bring a valid identification card or valid passport (one per person).
Italy Travels cannot be held responsible for partial closing museum rooms, itinerary variations inside the museum, cancellations or entrance delays due to unexpected events, strikes or decisions taken by the museum direction or by the Ministero dei Beni Culturali or by the Sovraintendenza delle Belle Arti.

TRAJAN’S MARKET ARCHAELOGICAL COMPLEX
The Markets of Trajan are an archaeological complex with absolutely unique characteristics in Rome. The monument has lived the evolution of the city from the Imperial Age to the present day: strategic administrative center of the Imperial Forum, aristocratic residence, military fortress, prestigious convent and barracks.
Now the Trajan's Market hosts the Museum of the Imperial Forums referred the Markets of Trajan were an integral part.
The extensive complex of Roman buildings in brick, known as Trajan's Market, is miraculously come down to us from the heart of the ancient city, in close connection with the large squares of the Imperial Forums, and still is in the center of the modern city.

IMPERIALFORUMS MUSEUM
Under the name "Imperial Forums" indicate the five monuments of Imperial commission constructed in topographic continuity with the Roman Forum old Royal-republican and substituted religious, political and administrative.
For their installation it was modified the orography and were sacrificed parts inhabited and public structures, even sacred. Every complex was designed in conceptual and physical relationship with the previous ones, and they communicated through openings on various sides.
From the viewpoint urban and architectural, the Imperial Forums are monumental squares arcaded with exedra, with axial and centralized installation; a quadrangular shape, have dimensions and orientation different, in relation to the spaces and, in part, to a preexisting structure; the end wall was emphasized by the temple dedicated to the protecting divinity of Emperor, whose presence was evoked repeatedly by his representation on horseback or in a quadriga, the inscriptions with the name and symbolic references of iconography and decorative motifs.
The Museum of the Imperial Forums finds its ideal location within the monumental complex of the Trajan's Market. The museum proposes to illustrate the architecture of the ancient Imperial Forums and their architectural and sculptural decoration.