Thanks to the Metroborgo Montaltolab project, Palazzo Sacconi, built by the eponymous noble family, will host a new museum dedicated to Giuseppe Sacconi, the architect of the Vittoriano in Rome and the author of numerous significant restoration projects of historical monuments and buildings, such as the Basilica of the Holy House in Loreto and the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi. Through drawings, prints, archival documents, and immersive digital experiences, visitors will be able to explore both Sacconi the man and Sacconi the architect, as well as the relationship between architecture and the construction of a national identity in unified Italy.

The journey spans from the modern era to the present day, encouraging the public to reflect on transformations brought about by urban regeneration projects, which—by reinventing neighborhoods and cities, as happened with Sacconi’s Altare della Patria or with the 16th-century renovatio of Rome commissioned by Pope Sixtus V—contribute to the emergence of new imaginaries and identities, often at the expense of preexisting ones.