The Hendrik Christian Anderson Museum of Rome

The Hendrik Christian Anderson Museum was built between 1922 and 1925.  Anderson was a Norwegian-American sculptor, painter and urban planner. 

In 1893 Andersen travelled to Europe to study art and eventually settled in Rome.   His museum is located near Rome’s Piazza del Popolo (at Via Pasquale Stanislao Mancini 20) and was designed by Anderson himself.  He bequeathed his home, studio, papers and more than 400 pieces of his work to the Italian Government.

The museum opened to the public on December 19^th, 1999 on the 50^th anniversary of Anderson’s death.  He wanted the Neo-Renaissance style building to house a museum so that everyone could admire his works and projects...which in his lifetime had not been appreciated enough.

The ancient town of Alba Fucens located at only 100 km from Rome, February, 2026

Alba Fucens, the (very) ancient Latin settlement, was founded in 303 B.C.  It's located only 100 km southeast of Rome.  

Little is left of the so-called “Pompeii of Abruzzi”, except for the small and lovely amphitheater which had been built in the 1^st  century A.D. (it's slightly smaller than the one in Pompeii where in the early 1970s Pink Floyd played their historic and epic behind-closed-doors concert).

Excavations in the area began in 1949 and went on for a further thirty years.   

 

With the decline of the Roman Empire the town was eventually abandoned around the 6^th century A.D.   In more modern times a devastating earthquake hit the nearby area in January,1915 and caused the death of 30,000 people, putting a definitive “nail in the coffin” to any further life-business activities.