Museum of the Ara Pacis

The Museum of the Ara Pacis houses the Ara Pacis of Augustus. Designed by the American architect Richard Meier and built in steel, travertine, glass and plaster, the museum is the first great architectural and urban intervention in the historic centre of Rome since the Fascist era.1 It is a structure with a triumphal nature, clearly alluding to the style of imperial Rome.