This collection illustrates the most important aspects of Roman life, starting with the seventeen hundreds and leading us right up to the second half of the nineteen hundreds. It includes a series of paintings by different artists, such as landscape painters or folk painters, prints and watercolours. Its intent is to reproduce Rome as it was in those times, from both an urbanistic and traditional point of view.

There are permanent collections in the museum but it is also used for temporary exhibitions, or for staging the Nativity scene set in Rome during the eighteen hundreds. It has objects that belonged to the dialectal poet Trilussa and six realistic representations of Roman scenes, which reincarnate the natural greatness of the moments of popular life in the Nineteenth century.