The museum reconstructs the birth and development of the historical villa.Villa Vecchia;with its annexed garden;is composed of a 17th century building erected on a pre-existing construction and whose current appearance is the result of renovation carried out by Francesco Nicoletti in 1748.Other buildings with a cultural function are linked to the villa:the greenhouses with educational workshops and the Giardino dei Cedrati;the Arco dei Quattro Venti and the Casale di Giovio.Each section illustrates a different theme:From antiquity to the Middle Ages to the 17th century;Theatre garden;Fountains;Famous persons;Classical and oriental myths;Funerary subjects and themes of everyday life;the 1800s:French war memorial and the Arco dei Quattro Venti;Landscape and furniture used in the 19th century.Worth noting:Statues of the Nile and Cybele;formerly in the Theatre Garden;reliefs with erotic and mythological subjects (between the 2nd and 17th centuries;also from the Theatre Garden;the bust of Paolo Giordano Orsini;Duke of Bracciano;by the Bernini school;sculptures of the Fountain of Venus;formed by parts of Roman statues restored under the orders of Algardi.