Rome
Museo dell'Istituto Centrale per la Patologia del Libro
A Hospital for Ill Books
76 Via Milano
Rome, Rome 00184
Nearest Train: Cavour
Phone: +39 06 482 911
Book lovers can see how books suffering in some way can be mended in this type of "hospital" founded in the 19th-century palazzo. Included is a museum that exhibits a collection of inks and various items of equipment for writing, but above all books and various fragments that have been damaged by insects, inks, light, heat, floods or even war. The purpose of the collection is to preserve the valuable assets that books are. Admission: Free.
Open Hours: lun-ven mattina per appuntamento
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