The city of Rome planned to pay for the museum's $30 million construction cost.
[1] As of 2013, Italian Holocaust scholar Marcello Pezzetti [it] was slated to serve as the museum's inaugural director.
Pezzetti headed the committee overseeing the museum's exhibition and research facilities.
[2] On 16 October, the 80th anniversary of a roundup of more than 1,200 Roman Jews by the Nazis in 1943, lawmakers in Italy's Chamber of Deputies began debate on the funding, which would support the museum's exhibits.
[5] The Shoah Museum will be built on the grounds of Villa Torlonia, a 19th-century mansion that served as the Rome residence of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini between 1925 and 1943.