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In the Hall of Honour, foreign delegations, senior diplomatic officials and distinguished guests visiting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation are welcomed. From here the so-called path of honour and the visit to the Palace’s main rooms, begins.

From the Hall you can access the main floor and the reception rooms through the staircase of Honour where, in the middle of the central ramp, two sculptures by Mirko Basaldella are exhibited: La grande madre and Totem , which are part of the Italian Foreign Ministry’s Collection, and the tapestry by Sergio Selva, which is one of the works commissioned in the public tenders of the 1960s, together with a Roman marble sarcophagus from the Third Century A.D.

The solemnity and monumentality of the rooms, designed down to the smallest detail by the architect Del Debbio - from the marble coatings to the gates, from the chandeliers to the furnishings - lend themselves perfectly to the large works of the masters of the second half of the twentieth century, from Gastone Novelli to Emilio Widow, Emilio Scanavino to Gianni Piacentino and Maurizio Mochetti.

The mosaics by Luigi Montanarini and Toti Scialoja cover the walls of the Antechamber of the International Conference Room, also known as the Hall of Mosaics. In addition to the two mosaic interventions and the false ceiling by Alberto Bevilaqua, created on the occasion of the 1965 public competitions, it is also possible to admire the sculpture by Giò Pomodoro, Grande Ghibellina II. 

On the marble walls of the De Grenet room, the two site-specific installations by Remo Salvadori stand out - "The room of cups" and "In the moment" - while in the centre of the room are the works "Migration Globe V" by Pietro Ruffo and "Rossavorio" by Gino Marotta.

In the Hall of Globes, together with the large globe from Palazzo Chigi, the preparatory studies by Mario Sironi "The Empire" and "The Worker", the sculptures "Horse" e "Pomona" by Arturo Martini, and "The Dead Mistress" by Arturo Martini.

On the first floor, there is the Glass Gallery, a covered corridor that overlooks the internal courtyard, built in the 1990s to a design by the architect Giusto Puri Purini, which houses several sculptures of the Farnesina Collection, including works by Mario Sironi, Turi Simeti and Umberto Mastroianni.

The so-called Forma 1 room has historically housed the first body of works from the Italian Foreign Ministry’s Collection and here, even today, the works of the artists who founded the group of the same name in 1947 - including Carla Accardi, Pietro Consagra, Piero Dorazio, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo and Giulio Turcato - are exhibited.