Palazzo Massimo alle Terme stands in the Esquilino district of Rome, near Termini Station. Camillo Pistrucci rebuilt it in 1883 to 1886 on the site of the Villa Montalto-Peretti. The Jesuits used it as a college until 1960, and the state bought it in 1981.
Costantino Dardi designed the restoration. The building has four floors above ground and one below. The ground floor opened as a museum in 1995, and the other floors were completed in 1998.
It is now part of the Roman National Museum. Its collections include the "General of Tivoli," the Boxer at Rest, the Portonaccio sarcophagus, bronzes from Caligula's ships in Lake Nemi, and frescoes from Livia's villa. In 2013 the museum circuit had 247,795 visitors.
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