The Museo d'arte Orientale Giuseppe Tucci (Giuseppe Tucci Oriental Art Museum) hosts works of art and exemplars from the Near, the Middle and the Far East in the suggestive location of Palazzo Brancaccio.

It was opened in 1957 and is dedicated to Giuseppe Tucci, famous Roman orientalist and tibetologist, from whose work some of the current collections derive. The museum stretches along 15 rooms: it begins with exemplars from the Near and the Middle East, with bronzes, pottery and metals from Central Asia and Iran civilizations. It then goes on with the Islamic civilization area and the so called Gandhara room, with the collection of some Buddhist finds gathered during an expedition to Pakistan. In the Tibet and Nepal room you’ll mainly find metal alloy statues, paintings, jewels and ritual objects, whereas in the India room you’ll admire Shiva, Vishnu or Buddha sculptures as well as Bodhisattva portrayals.

Lastly, you conclude your first with three rooms concerning the Far East, with ritual pots, statues, paintings, pottery and fabrics.