In the hall you can admire a splendid coffered ceiling with heraldic motifs of the Torlonia and Colonna family, the phoenix rising from the ashes, emblem of the Torlonia house and the two-tailed siren, heraldic symbol of the Colonna house and a boiserie with anthropomorphic columns and sphinxes and three marble portals, all works from the Torlonia palace demolished in Piazza Venezia. It was Marco Besso who inaugurated the dining room with the function of the Conference Room on the occasion of the Dante evening of 9 April 1912 documented in the Italian Illustration. The Foundation has placed a sort of figurative genealogical tree of the Besso family along the walls, including the painting by Marco Besso by Ettore Tito