VIP Capitoline Museums Private Tour

The Capitoline Museums hold some of the most expressive sculptures of the ancient world, and your guide will bring their stories vividly to life. Admire the Capitoline Venus, celebrated for centuries as a model of grace and ideal beauty, before turning to the raw emotion etched into the Dying Gaul’s face and posture—an ancient artwork that still communicates its message across with startling clarity across the millennia. In the Hall of Emperors, meanwhile, we’ll encounter the rulers who shaped Roman history, from Nero’s unsettling stare to Augustus’ composed authority. Nearby, the Hall of Philosophers introduces the thinkers whose ideas underpinned Western civilisation.

Your tour leads through the atmospheric Tabularium, an ancient state archive built directly into the rock of the Capitoline Hill. Once home to bronze tablets recording Rome’s laws, it now offers one of the most impressive viewpoints in the city. Through its monumental arches, the Roman Forum stretches out below—its basilicas, temples, and triumphal monuments forming a vast archaeological tapestry. With your guide explaining the functions and histories of the buildings before you, the ruins come into sharp focus, connecting the stories told inside the museum with the physical remains of ancient civic life.

Your tour leads through the atmospheric Tabularium, an ancient state archive built directly into the rock of the Capitoline Hill. Once home to bronze tablets recording Rome’s laws, it now offers one of the most impressive viewpoints in the city. Through its monumental arches, the Roman Forum stretches out below—its basilicas, temples, and triumphal monuments forming a vast archaeological tapestry. With your guide explaining the functions and histories of the buildings before you, the ruins come into sharp focus, connecting the stories told inside the museum with the physical remains of ancient civic life.