Your visit

December 5, 2024 - February 2, 2025
Admission free
 
December 5, 2024 - February 2, 2025
Admission free

 
Exhibitions opening hours

 
Monday closed
Tuesday 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
Wednesday   11:00 am - 8:00 pm
Thursday 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
Friday 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
Saturday 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
Sunday    11:00 am - 8:00 pm
 

Admission is allowed up to one hour before closing

 
The visitor cannot be accompanied, inside the exhibition halls and theaters, by animals of any size or kind.

Where we are

 
 
 
 
MATTATOIO

Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, 4

00153 Rome

Info

info.mattatoio@palaexpo.it

 

How to reach us

Underground line B or B1 (alight at Piramide)

Tram number 3 (alight at Marmorata / Galvani)

Bus  719 (alight at Galvani / Zabaglia) 170 - 781 (alight at L.go Marzi)

Spaces

The architectural complex known as the Mattatoio di Testaccio, built by Gioacchino Ersoch between 1888 and 1891, is considered one of the most important surviving examples of industrial archaeology in the city on account of the modernity and originality of its structure.

The restoration project, based on an idea by Zoneattive, kicked off in the early 2000s. The construction site was opened in 2006 and completed in 2010, the renovation work involving the conversion of the pavilions used for water storage, pig-meat processing and as slaughterhouses.

Over the years, the management – run by the Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali's Musei in Comune until 2017 – developed  a pathway devoted to contemporary art which also benefited from the presence in the Mattatoio complex both of Roma Tre University's Faculty of Architecture and of some of the Accademia di Belle Arti's lecture theatres. 

 
 

Rome the Capital City assigned the management of a considerable portion of the Mattatoio to the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo in 2018. The areas in question form part of a complex lying at the heart of a renovation project for the creation of an artistic and cultural research and production cluster capable of promoting a powerful contemporary image of the city, recording its developments and stimulating its evolution.

Pavillions

Gli originari padiglioni che caratterizzano l’intero complesso architettonico di Gioacchino Ersoch, testimoniano il passaggio dal classicismo alla modernità e costituiscono un importante esempio storico dell’architettura industriale monumentale e razionale della fine del XIX Secolo.

The Pelanda

The Pelanda is a large area of roughly 5,000 sq. mt and a precious example of industrial architecture in an area once devoted to pig-meat processing. The project is the result of a careful renovation programme which, among other things, has preserved the structures and furnishings of the so-called "Gallery of Cisterns".

The Rimessini

Team


Cecilia Guerrieri Paleotti
Coordinamento organizzativo spazi culturali

Annalisa Grisi
Coordinamento produzione e organizzazione mostre, spettacoli e eventi

Maria Giovanna Virga
Coordinamento produzione e organizzazione mostre, spettacoli e eventi

Elena Fortunati
Comunicazione social

Andrea Pergola
Comunicazione social


Maria Giulia Pavin, Anita Suppa
Comunicazione

Marco Cinquegrana
web

Piergiorgio Paris, Federica Mariani
Ufficio stampa

Paolo Pezza
Luca Caselli, Marcello Fagnani
Silvia Albini, Cristina Piccione
Ufficio Tecnico e Progettazione

Edoardo Brunetti, Ornella Fabretti
Progettazione grafica

Azienda Speciale Palaexpo

The Azienda Speciale Palaexpo is an operational entity answering to the City of Rome.

It stands today as one of the leading organisers of art and culture in Italy, managing the Palazzo Esposizioni Roma, the MACRO, the Mattatoio and the Museo delle Periferie on behalf of Rome the Capital City. Thus the network managed by the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo is a truly integrated system of spaces and events for culture reaching out to an extensive and motivated audience.


 
Sindaco di Roma Capitale
Roberto Gualtieri

Assessore alla Cultura
Massimiliano Smeriglio

 

Board of Directors
Marco Delogu, President
Ivana Della Portella, Vice President
Mino Dinoi
Francesca Barbi Marinetti 
Manuela Veronelli

 

Director General  
Fabio Merosi


Board of Statutory Auditors
Maurizio Petrucci, President
Adriano Corsetti
Gabriele Rinaldi

 
Operations and Human Resources Director
Daniela Picconi
 
Director for Legal Office
Andrea Landolina