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Eternal city attracts so many tourists not only for its enormous architectonic heritage, the beauty of its past, but also for so many extravagant and extraordinary contemporary art realities. No doubts, Rome is a museum in the open, but there is so much to explore in “closed� traditional museums of Rome. Have to say that Rome has many important and significant art complexes and museums dedicated also to Contemporary art.

During my stays in Rome I always try to visit this special Museum, always trying to catch with modern art exhibitions, which this Museum hosts on regular basis. I always walk there. My last visits were Chagall’s and Gauguin’s exhibitions. My Rome hotel was situated in Termini station area, so I went down Via Cavour, then went down the Opio hill, which led me straightforward to the Colosseum, and from Coloseum I went along Via dei Fori Imperiali, and in the end arriving to the Venice square I went up a small hill to the Museum Today I would like to tell some curious peculiarities of this prominent complex, situated in the heart of ancient Rome’s downtown -Complesso del Vittoriano- Victorian Complex, in via San Pietro in Carcere, which hosts in these days a breathtaking exhibition of Paul Gauguin, The Artist of A Myth and A Dream.

Victorian Complex is situated inside the Palace of Altare della Patria and is part of the Central Museum of Risorgimento. This complex was erected in the late 19th century in honour of the first king of unified Italy- Vittorio Emanuele the Second right after his death in 1878, that is why it is called Vittoriano. This monument, which was inaugurated in 1911, is collocated to the Central Museum of Risorgemento, destinated to collect and safeguard the testimonies related to the political, economic and social transformation of Italy in the XVIII, XIX , XX centuries. These testimonies are constituted of letters, diaries, manuscripts, pieces of art, like pictures, sculptures, designs, incisions, stamps, weapons, which re-evoke the facts and the protagonists of this important period of history of Italy and for a grand archive of the memories of Risorgimento.

I was really impressed by my last visit of Gauguin’s Rome artworks. Gauguin is a researcher of a fusion of art and life. Was refused by conventional France and considered subversive. He speaks out with his stains of colours and pure connotations in rare atmosphere, he puts his personages, primitive and mythical in a literary and insular Eden, maybe trying to find in his obsessive search of Perù of his childhood…