New study spaces open in Rome museums and city libraries.

Rome continues to expand its network of study rooms in municipal museums and libraries to provide students with "accessible and welcoming" public spaces for studying.

The measure was first introduced by the city in 2023 to address the needs of the hundreds of thousands of students living in the capital.

Palazzo Esposizioni is the latest museum to open a study hall - accessible Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00 to 20.00 - with the Casa del Cinema and the Pietro Canonica Museum set to join the initiative next week.

The study rooms are managed by the municipal public library network and comprise spaces made available from the city as well as third parties.

In recent months Palazzo Braschi, MACRO and the Pelanda at the Mattatoio have opened study rooms, with new facilities set to open soon at the Celio Archaeological Park and at Centrale Montemartini.

The city's mayor Roberto Gualtieri has said the move is part of making Rome a "cutting-edge city for young people" and was aimed in particular at "the tens of thousands of off-campus students forced to study in cramped rooms due to high rents."

The initiative runs in parallel to services already provided by city libraries, with extended opening hours, in both the centre and the suburbs.

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