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The National Museum of Pasta Foods is unique in the world. The museum is located in the historica center of Rome next to the Quirinale and near the Trevi Fountain.

The Museum shows the pasta as it is born from the wheat and the methods that were used to produce it in antiquity until today’s times with the advances of new technology.

On its many rooms the museum exhibits an extensive documentation of the most popular Italian food, that now is a symbol of this country and its culinary tradition.

On display on the museum you’ll see an ancient grindstone called “gramola” used to amalgamate the mix of bran and water from which all kinds of pasta come from. In the museum you’ll discover too the different ways to produce pasta and how the different “formats” of pasta (spaghetti, ravioli, etc) were created. There are too on display many tools used to make hand-made pasta and you’ll learn too about the many nutritional virtues of this alimentary good. On the basement of the museum you’ll discover more about the relation between pasta and art, cinema and theatre.

The museum tells as well a part of the history of Italy through the pasta, a food that is virtually a cultural treasure of the country, and the protagonist of the very important family ritual of lunch.

Besides the stable exposition the museum organizes as well seminars dedicated to increase the knowledge about the pasta in its aspects, qualitative, nutritive, productive and cultural.

When you decide to take a holiday in Rome, don’t miss the occasion to visit the National museum of Pasta Foods. At Hotel Des Artistes we will be more than happy to give you all the necessary information to visit this and many other famous museums in Rome.

The museum is open everyday from 9.30 until 17.30
P.zza Scanderberg, 117
00187 Roma
Tel. 06 6991119 6991120
Fax. 06 6991109