Macro Testaccio is a branch of the Roman Museum of Contemporary Art. It is located in the buildings of a former slaughterhouse. His collection includes about 1,200 works of art, and includes examples of the work of 20th-century Italian artists, including Antonio Sanfilippo, Piero Dorazio, Ceroli and Pino Pascali.
The collection also includes the works of: Giovanni Albanese, Gianni Asdrubali, Fabrice de Noli, Federico Guida and Piero Pizzi Cannelli.
The first institution whose purpose was to present contemporary art was founded in Rome in the 1880s. At that time, the city bought several works at the International Exhibition of Fine Arts.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Auguste Rodin gave the museum his sculpture "Bust of a woman". In the 1920s, the Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art was created in the Palazzo Caffarelli on the Capitoline Hill. Today's headquarters was made available to the public at the beginning of the 21st century.
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