Torlonia Museum

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The Torlonia Museum (Italian: Museo Torlonia) was a museum in Rome. It had a collection of 620 marble and alabaster statues and sarcophagi dating to the Roman Empire period. The collection also included a bust of Julius Caesar, sculptures of the gods from Roman mythology and Roman copies of Greek statues.

It was founded in the 18th century by Giovanni Torloni. In the 1960s it was dismantled and the palace was converted into a 93-unit apartment building. The collection was put into storage and has not been publicly displayed. In May 2005 the family that owned the museum agreed to sell the collection to the city of Rome for £100 million.