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The Capitoline Museums constitute the main municipal civic museum structure of Rome and are part of the «System of shared museums». They use an exhibition area of 12,977 m².
Opened to the public in 1734, under Pope Clement XII, they are considered the first museum in the world, intended as a place where art could be enjoyed by everyone and not just by the owners. We speak of "museums", in the plural, as the Pinacoteca was added to the original collection of ancient sculptures by Pope Benedict XIV in the 18th century, made up of works illustrating predominantly Roman subjects.