The Galleria Borghese Museum is located in Villa Borghese in Rome and houses one of the most famous art collections in the world.

The collection of works in the Borghese Gallery Museum is the result of the activity of Cardinal Scipione Borghese , nephew of Pope Paul V, who was also responsible for the construction of the villa itself. At the end of the 16th century the Borghese family, a wealthy family from Siena, bought land outside Rome near Porta Pinciana and began building a villa in its park in 1607. During the 17th century, Scipione Borghese, a passionate collector and patron of the arts, formed one of the most great Italian art collections, which constituted the original nucleus of the collection visible today in the Museum.

Galleria Borghese houses a collection of ancient sculptures, bas-reliefs and mosaics, as well as paintings and sculptures from the 15th to the 19th century. Among the masterpieces in the collection are works by Caravaggio, Raphael, Titian, Correggio, Antonello da Messina, Giovanni Bellini and sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Canova .

The collection can be considered unique in the world as regards the number and importance of the sculptures by Bernini and the paintings by Caravaggio present here. The works are exhibited in the 20 frescoed rooms which, together with the portico and the entrance hall, make up the rooms of the museum open to the public.