Italy to create museum for long-hidden ancient art collection

The Italian culture ministry has finally reached an agreement to create a museum in Rome for what has been called “world’s most important private collection of ancient art”. The collection, which includes more than 600 Greek and Roman sculptures, has been in storage at the Torlonia family’s Roman palazzo since 1976.
The princely family, who made a fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries as bankers to the Vatican, acquired many of the artefacts from excavations on land they