Rome Hotels near Pasta Museum

After a visit to the Pasta Museum, located off one of Rome’s byways at 117 Piazza Scanderberg, near the Trevi Fountain, you may be one of the converts who think that it is. The Pasta Museum will tell tell its visitors everything they ever wanted to know about pasta, and were afraid to ask because they might get more information than they really cared to have.

Exhibits at the Pasta Museum

The Pasta Museum does very well that which any good museum is supposed to do well: educate its visitors on its chosen topic. The contents within the Pasta Museum, other than pasta itself, are pasta-producing machinery; pasta artwork (if Andy Warhol could do it for tomato soup, why not?); pasta photographs; pasta technology; and, of course, a lesson in drying pasta so that it can, if necessary, be stored for years.

It is the Museum’s pasta-drying lesson which seems to carry the hopes of the Italian pasta industry that their products will one day be used to address the lack of food in poorer countries. Given, however, that the preparation of dried pasta requires both water and the fuel to heat it, pasta may not yet be the humanitarian answer to hunger that we seek.

But the Pasta Museum is still fun. Eleven rooms of pasta culture give its visitors plenty to see for their 10-euro admission; the Santi Corretti Room proudly displays documents dating back to 1154 which indicate that pasta was already being produced and dried in up to four of Italy’s provinces. The documents, for the most part, are in Italian with short English summaries, but no one has yet challenged their veracity.

The Pasta Museum’s website probably says it best: “Through the Museum we have made an effort… to tell the story of pasta tradition, which is of use …in understanding what lies behind our daily gesture of lifting a forkful of tasty pasta to our lips.”

If it does nothing else, a visit to the Pasta Museum is very likely to have its guests heading out the door in search of their next forkful of tasty pasta!

Hotels Close to the Pasta Museum

Located less than a hundred metres from the Trevi Fountain and the Piazza de Spagna, less than two hundred metres from the Pasta Museum, a ten-minute walk from the Colosseum, and a fifteen-minute walk from the Vatican, the White Hotel Rome offers four-star, friendly accommodations in a refurbished nineteenth century building.