Guided tours

An animated story accompanies children as they explore Palazzo Venezia and its gardens along a route mixing art and nature. As they pass through the majestic salons, the children go in search of the colours and shapes that inspired the great artists when creating the frescoes and decorations in Palazzo Venezia. They arrive in enchanted gardens filled with palm trees, magnolias, cedar trees, camelias and boxwood hedges where light and shade play through the patterns of the leaves, plant forms and colours of the berries and flowers. Those attending the workshop will use a teaching aid and an original water colouring technique to create their own gardens.

Little Ferdinando Orsini portrayed with his brothers in Tiberio Titi's painting will accompany children on a lively exploration of Palazzo Venezia, making the spaces and works displayed in the museum more familiar.

It will be his maquette that will introduce the young visitors to the Appartamento Barbo and the Saloni Monumentali, urging them through riddles and observation games to learn about the intended use of the rooms, “the master of the house,” Pope Paul II, his collecting passion including that for parrots, and the many parties organized inside and outside his palace.

The tale in the form of a fairy tale of the history of Palazzo Venezia will continue in the museum, where “Nando” will involve putti and children portrayed in the paintings of the picture gallery, to draw visitors' attention to those details best known to the world of childhood and facilitate learning about the contents of the works.

Later in the workshop, each child can draw and color the rampant lion of the Barbo coat of arms.

Where will the wide steps of this great white monument lead?

The young visitors will be the protagonists of a treasure hunt conceived as an ascent of the Vittoriano: in fact, the route will be marked, from the entrance gate to the Piazzale del Bollettino, by riddles, clues, and crossword puzzles to foster the sense of spatial orientation, the spirit of observation and to make this unusual place familiar.
The statue of the king on horseback will become the visual reference point for shifting the gaze to some architectural elements and details of the sculptural decoration that, through play, will enable learning in pills of the contents enclosed in the monument.
The identification of the Mount Grappa rock will correspond to the delivery of the last tile of a mosaic that will see the children reassemble the picture of the equestrian monument of Victor Emmanuel II.