Rome has many Museums, operated by the state, the municipality or private collections…it may be hard to make a choice amidst them during your roman stay. In order help you choosing I decided to list them in a interesting way dividing them into Archeological Museums, Monuments, Art Galleries, Historical and Modern Art Museums.
A special section is dedicated to Kids and family!!
Some museum lies in more than a category…
The list is not in alphabetical order but in order of interest, value and fascination…
How to choose your museum?
MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES
Rome has many Museums, operated by the state, the municipality or private collections…in order help you choosing the ones to visit during your Roman stay I decided to list the museums in a interesting way. I divided them into Archeological Museums, Monuments, Art Galleries, Historical and Modern Art Museums.
A special section is dedicated to Kids and family!!
Some museum lies in more than a category…
The list is not in alphabetical order but in order of interest and value
Archeological Museums
This section contains both Museums and Archeological sites:
Musei Capitolini – Capitoline Museums and Picture Galleries: Piazza del Campidoglio, 1. Telephone 0667102071
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7.45pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 7:00pm.
Admission: 9.50 euro, reduced 7.50 euro.
The museum housed in the buildings around piazza del Campidoglio, all designed by Michelangelo, is the oldest public art collection in the world. It contains some of the most symbolical pieces of Roman art, such the Etruscan bronze She Wolf, the Brutus, the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, the Esquiline Venus, the dying Galata. The painting collection includes works by Giovanni Bellini, Caravaggio, Rubens, Titian.
Palazzo Massimo National Roman Museum: largo Villa Peretti, 1
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 8:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 7:00pm.
Admission: 7.00 euro, reduced 3.50 euro.
One of the finest collection of antiquities in Rome. It display ancient roman frescoes detached from imperial villas dating to two thousand years ago; a rich collection of roman mosaics and the collection of coins form the roman time onward.
Museo della Civiltà Romana – Museum of Roman Civilization: Piazza Agnelli, 10
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 9:00am to 2.00pm; Sunday and holidays 9:00am to 1:30pm.
Admission: 8:50 euro, reduced 6:50 euro.
The museum consists of reproductions and casts illustrating the history of Rome from the beginning of the Roman times until the 6th century. Noteworthy is the plastic of ancient Rome, which gives an idea of what Rome looked like.
Museo di Castel Sant Angelo – Castel Sant Angelo National Museum: Lungotevere di Castello, 50 Tel. 066819111
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7:30pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6:30pm
Admission: 8.00 euro, reduced 5.50 euro; the price may vary for exhibitions.
Once Emperor Hadrian’s mausoleum, the structure was constantly used during the Middle ages as a fortress and prison to become, in the renaissance period, the residence of the popes. The building became a museum in 1925 and contains a historical military museum, paintings, ceramics, sculptures and tapestries.
Capitoline Museum Centrale Montemartini: via Ostiense, 106
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6:30pm
Admission: 6.50 euro, reduced 5.50 euro;
An extraordinary conversion into a museum dedicated to antiquities of the first public installation for elettrical energy production. Some works of art on display are of excellent quality and refinement and others are also extremely interesting from an historical point of view.
National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia: Piazza di villa Giulia, 9
Opening Hours: 8.30am to 7.30pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6:30pm
Admission: 8.00 euro, reduced 4.00 euro;
Created within one of the most beautiful Renaissance villas, it hosts the collection of Etruscan works of art witnessing the complexity and skills of the Etruscan civilization flourishing in V century BC in the area north of Rome.
Balbi Crypt National Roman Museum: via delle Botteghe Oscure, 31
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7.45pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6.45pm.
Admission: 7.00 euro, reduced 3.50 euro.
A museum particularly dedicated to early middle age times and the transformations occurred in Rome after the fall of the roman empire. The underground remain of Balbo theater are very interesting too.
Palazzo Altemps National Roman Museum: Piazza Sant’Apollinare, 46
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7.45pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6.45pm.
Admission: 7.00 euro, reduced 3.50 euro.
Archeological collections witnessing the taste and love of antiquities of Rome’s aristocratic families.
Baths of Diocletian National Roman Museum: via Enrico de Nicola, 78
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 8:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 7:00pm.
Admission: 7.00 euro, reduced 3.50 euro.
Created within the remains of the imposing Diocletian’s baths. It focus on primitive settlements in Rome’s region. Interesting section is dedicated to epigraphy and ancient daily life. Within the museum can be admired the splendid cloister projected by Michelangelo.
Museum delle Mura: via di Porta Sebastiano, 18
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 2.00pm; closed Mondays; December 25, January 1, May 1.
Admission: free
The Museum is housed inside the Porta S. Sebastian the Aurelian walls and offers visitors an educational itinerary focused on this important defensive system created in the 3rd century by emperor Aurelian, and constantly restored throughout the rest of Rome’s history.
Villa of Maxentius: Via Appia Antica, 153
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 1.30pm; closed Mondays. December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 1.00pm
Admission: 5.00 euro, reduced 4.00 euro.
The villa consists of three main areas: the villa itself the circus and the family mausoleum designed as a single whole by emperor Maxentius. Maxentius circus is by far the best preserved in town and extremely fascinating..
Museo Barracco: Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 168
The collection gets its name from the Barone Giovanni Barracco, who bequeathed it to the city of Rome in 1902. Contains Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman sculpture, some dating from 1500 BC. Beneath the museum are remains of a Roman building and frescoes; however this area is currently closed due to repairs.
National Museum of Oriental Art: via Merulana, 248
Opening Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 9:00am to 2:00pm; Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 9.00am to 7.30pm. Closed on Mondays , December 25, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 6.00 euro, reduced 3.00 euro.
Material from excavations in the Middle and far East
Art Galleries
Museo e Galleria Borghese – Borghese Museum and Art Gallery: Piazza Scipione Borghese, 5
Reservation Required: Telephone 0632810, www.ticketeria.it
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, 1 January. Tours lasts 2 hours starting at 9:00; 11:00; 1:00pm; 3:00; 5:00pm. Visitors are required to get their reserved ticket half an hour before their reservation time.
Admission: 8.50 euro, reduced 5.25 euro.
The villa was committed by Cardinal Scipione Borghese to hold his private collection of works of fine art and antiquities. Its world-famous pieces include sculptures by Bernini and Canova; paintings by Raphael, Caravaggio, Titian, Antonello da Messina, Botticelli, Correggio, Rubens and others.
Museo di Castel Sant Angelo – Castel Sant Angelo National Museum: Lungotevere di Castello, 50 Tel. 066819111
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7:30pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6:30pm
Admission: 8.00 euro, reduced 5.50 euro; the price may vary for exhibitions.
Once Emperor Hadrian’s mausoleum, the structure was constantly used during the Middle ages as a fortress and prison to become, in the renaissance period, the residence of the popes. The building became a museum in 1925 and contains a historical military museum, paintings, ceramics, sculptures and tapestries.
Villa Farnesina: via della Lungara, 230
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 2.00pm, closed on Sundays and holidays. Open on second Sunday of the month. Ticket office closes at 1.40pm
Admission: 5.00 euro, reduced 3.00 euro;
The villa of one of the leading personality of the renaissance age: the banker of the popes Agostino Chigi.
Designed and frescoed by the greatest artists of the period: Raphael and his pupils, Peruzzi, Sebastiano del Piombo and Sodoma. Not to be missed !
Galleria Colonna: via della Pilotta, 17
Opening Hours: Saturday only 9:00am to 1.15pm, closed in August
Admission: 10.00 euro, reduced 8.0 0 euro;
Paintings by italian and foreign artists from the XV to the XVIII century, decorate the halls and rooms of the most luxurious roman aristocratic palace. The colonna family, who retrace its origins to the XI century is one of the oldest and most influential in town. Their palace perfectly reflects their past glories.
Galleria Doria Pamphili: via del Corso, 305
Opening Hours: 10:00am to 6:00pm, closed on December 25, January 1, Easter, May 1, 15 August. Admission: 10.50 euro, reduced 7.50 euro;
The palace of the Doria Pamphili family hosts their rich painting collection with works by Titian, Caravaggio, Velasquez, Lippi and many others. The Piano Nobile gives a good understanding of noble palaces in the baroque times.
National Gallery of Ancient Art – Palazzo Barberini: via delle Quattro Fontane, 13
Opening Hours: 8:30am to 7:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6:00pm
Admission: 7.00 euro, reduced 3.50 euro; the price may vary for exhibitions.
The palace of the Barberini papal family has been recently restored and the art collection is rich and fascinating. On display are paintings of artists of the Italian school from the 14th to the 18th century, Caravaggio and Raphael amidst the others. Particularly worth of notice are also the staircases projected by Bernini and Borromini and the main hall frescoed by Pietro da Cortona.
Galleria Spada: piazza Capo di Ferro, 13
Opening Hours: 8:30am to 7:30pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 7:00pm
Admission: 5.00 euro, reduced 2.50 euro;
Works of art by Titian, Guido Reni and other 17th century artists. The famous trompe d’oeil by Borromini is a main attraction of the art gallery.
Palazzo Braschi - Museum of Rome: via di San Pantaleo
Opening Hours: 10:00am to 8:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 7:00pm.
Admission: 8.50 euro, reduced 6.50 euro.
A collection of works of art and paintings aimed to illustrate Rome’s history and culture between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Villa Torlonia Museums: Via Nomentana, 70
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6.15pm.
Admission: 8.50 euro, reduced 6.50 euro.
The museum is organized in three villas: the 18th century Casino Nobile hosts the Museum of the Villa and a collection of works from the roman school. The Museum of the Casina delle Civette focuses on stained glasses. The Casino dei Principi is the home of the Archives of the Roman School and hosts temporary exhibitions.
Historical
Jewish Museum of Rome: Lungotevere cenci
Opening Hours: Sunday –Thursday 10:00am to 4.15pm; Friday 9:00am to 1.15pm , closed on Saturdays, January 1, august 15.
Admission: 10.00 euro. Admission includes Museum and guided tour in the Tempio Maggiore and Tempio Spagnolo.
Works of art illustrating the traditions, religion and history of Rome’s Jewish community, one of the oldest in the world.
Keats and Shelley Memorial House: Piazza di Spagna, 26
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10:00am to 6:00pm (closed lunch time between 1 and 2pm); Saturday 11 to 2pm, and 3 to 6.oopm. Closed on Sundays , December 25, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 4.50 euro, reduced 3.50 euro.
Manuscripts and memories of the journeys to Italy of the romantic poets and of their roman stay together with the memories of the last period in the life of John Keats.
Balbi Crypt National Roman Museum: via delle Botteghe Oscure, 31
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7.45pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6.45pm.
Admission: 7.00 euro, reduced 3.50 euro.
A museum particularly dedicated to early middle age times and the transformations occurred in Rome after the fall of the roman empire. The underground remain of Balbo theater are very interesting too.
Museo dell’alto medioevo –Museum of the Early Middle Ages-: Viale Lincoln 1, EUR. Telephone 0654228199
Opening Hours: Tuesday, Friday, Saturday 9:00am to 2:00pm; Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday 9:00am to 7:00pm.
Admission: 2 euro, reduced 1 euro.
MEDIEVAL
Established in 1967 with a collection ranging from the 4th to the 10th century. Includes jewelry, building fragments, ceramics, pieces of fabrics etc., Greek and Roman.
Palazzo Braschi - Museum of Rome: via di San Pantaleo
Opening Hours: 10:00am to 8:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 7:00pm.
Admission: 8.50 euro, reduced 6.50 euro.
A collection of works of art and paintings aimed to illustrate Rome’s history and culture between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Napoleonic Museum: Piazza Umberto, 1
Opening Hours: 10:00am to 6:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 6.50 euro, reduced 5.50 euro.
A collection of memories of the Bonaparte Family donated to the city of Rome. The collection is aimed to document the close relationship between the Bonaparte’s and Rome. These ties were established by force of arms in 1808, after the French occupation of Rome. The city in 1811 was named "and imperial free city", destined to be ruled by Napoleon's son who was given, even before birth, the title of King of Rome.
Later, after the fall of the Empire, almost all members of the Bonaparte family sought asylum to Pope Pius VII and settled in Rome: the mother Letizia Ramolino, the brothers Louis and Jerome and napoleon’s sister, Pauline.
The Museum of the Roman Republic and Garibaldi Memorial: Largo di Porta San Pancrazio
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Friday 10:00am to 2:00pm; Saturday, Sunday and holidays 10:00am to 6:00pm closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 6.50 euro, reduced 5.50 euro.
The exhibition re-create the history of the Roman Republic from 1849 till its tragically but heroic end. Historical documents, educational materials and multimedia are on display.
Central Museum of the Italian ‘Risorgimento’: Complesso del Vittoriano, Via San Pietro in Carcere
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 6:00pm; closed on the first Monday of the month.
Admission: free
The great rooms inside the Vittoriano host over 500 works of art, old photography, relics and arms witnessing the struggles leading to the Italian unification in the 19th century up to the end of the First World War. Historical documentaries are subtitled in English. Worth of notice is the museum of the Italian flags, and the crypt of the unknown soldier.
Museum of Rome in Trastevere: piazza Sant’Egidio 1/b
Opening Hours: 10:00am to 8:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 7:00pm.
Admission: 5.00 euro, reduced 4.00 euro.
The Museum of Rome in Trastevere focus on the aspects of popular life in Rome from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, documented through the tastes and beliefs of artists and folklorists who depicted it. The collection includes paintings, prints, drawings and watercolors, together with representations known as ‘Roman scenes’, depicting life-size aspects of popular Roman life of the nineteenth century. The most represented themes are professions, secular and religious festivals, the traditional dresses.
National Museum of Popular art and Traditions: Piazza Marconi, 8
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 8:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 4.00 euro, reduced 2.00 euro.
Costumes and aspects of the traditional Italian life.
Modern and Contemporary Art
MAXXI –The national Museum of 21st century Art: Via Guido Reni, 4a
Opening Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday 11:00am to 7:00pm; Thursday and Saturday 11:00am to 10:00pm; closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 11.00 euro, reduced 8.00 euro;
The MAXXI museum is a special place for exhibition of contemporary art and a laboratory for cultural, artistic and linguistic experimentation.
Macro and Macro Testaccio
Macro Rome Museum of Contemporary Art: Via Nizza 138
Opening Hours: 11:00am to 7:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 12.00 euro, reduced 10.00 euro;
Macro is the reference point for contemporary art circle in Rome. The splendid exhibition center house the creations of Italian artists of international fame, in a period that goes from the sixties to today.
Macro Testaccio: piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4
Opening Hours: 4:00pm to 10:00pm. Ticket office closes at 9:30pm
Closed on Mondays, December 24, 25 and 31st, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 6.00 euro, reduced 4.00 euro;
Tickets Macro+ Macro Testaccio (valid 7 days) 14.50 euro, reduced 12.50
Macro Future hosts programs and exhibit attentive to new trends, multimedia arts and the talent of new generation artists.
GNAM the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art: via Francesco Crispi, 24
Opening Hours: 10.00am to 6:00pm. Closed on Mondays, December 24, 25 and 31st, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 6.50 euro, reduced 5.50 euro
Established in 1925 the art gallery documents the artistic scene in rome from the end of the 19th century to the post-war period. Sculptures, paintings and graphics.
Pietro Canonica Museum in Villa Borghese: Viale Pietro Canonica, 2; piazza di Siena
Opening Hours: 10.00am to 4:00pm. On holidays close at 1.30pm.Closed on Mondays, December 24, 25 and 31st, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 5.00 euro, reduced 4.00 euro
The museum is dedicated to the late 19th century artist Pietro Canonica and housed in his former home. Many sculptures and studies of the artist are on display.
Museum for Families and Kids
Museo di Castel Sant Angelo – Castel Sant Angelo National Museum: Lungotevere di Castello, 50 Tel. 066819111
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7:30pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6:30pm
Admission: 8.00 euro, reduced 5.50 euro; the price may vary for exhibitions.
Once Emperor Hadrian’s mausoleum, the structure was constantly used during the Middle ages as a fortress and prison to become, in the renaissance period, the residence of the popes. The building became a museum in 1925 and contains a historical military museum, paintings, ceramics, sculptures and tapestries.
Museo della Civiltà Romana – Museum of Roman Civilization: Piazza Agnelli, 10
Opening Hours: currently under restoration (Tuesday – Saturday 9:00am to 2.00pm; Sunday and holidays 9:00am to 1:30pm).
Admission: 8:50 euro, reduced 6:50 euro.
The museum consists of reproductions and casts illustrating the history of Rome from the beginning of the Roman times until the 6th century. Noteworthy is the plastic of ancient Rome, which gives an idea of what Rome looked like.
Villa of Maxentius: Via Appia Antica, 153
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 1.30pm; closed Mondays. December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 1.00pm
Admission: 5.00 euro, reduced 4.00 euro.
The villa consists of three main areas: the villa itself the circus and the family mausoleum designed as a single whole by emperor Maxentius. Maxentius circus is by far the best preserved in town and extremely fascinating… kids can run in the circus reenacting the chariot races !
Civic Museum of Zoology: via Ulisse Aldrovandi 18
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6.00pm
Admission: 7.00 euro, reduced 4.50 euro
The Museum of Zoology of Rome is a scientific center dedicated to the conservation, study and teaching of animal biodiversity.
The Museum is a great laboratory where, thanks to the amount of preserved species, it is possible to study the biological characteristics and the geographical distribution of animal species and of their environments.
Planetarium and Astronomic Museum: Piazza Giovanni Agnelli, 10 (same building that house the Museum of Roman Civilization)
Opening Hours, Tuesday to Friday: 9:00am to 2:00pm, Saturday 9:00am to 7.00pm.
Admission: 8:50 euro, reduced 6:50 euro.
closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1.
Museum with shows on science and astronomy. Shows are scheduled every hour.
A special section is dedicated to Kids and family!!
Some museum lies in more than a category…
The list is not in alphabetical order but in order of interest, value and fascination…
How to choose your museum?
MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES
Rome has many Museums, operated by the state, the municipality or private collections…in order help you choosing the ones to visit during your Roman stay I decided to list the museums in a interesting way. I divided them into Archeological Museums, Monuments, Art Galleries, Historical and Modern Art Museums.
A special section is dedicated to Kids and family!!
Some museum lies in more than a category…
The list is not in alphabetical order but in order of interest and value
Archeological Museums
This section contains both Museums and Archeological sites:
Musei Capitolini – Capitoline Museums and Picture Galleries: Piazza del Campidoglio, 1. Telephone 0667102071
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7.45pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 7:00pm.
Admission: 9.50 euro, reduced 7.50 euro.
The museum housed in the buildings around piazza del Campidoglio, all designed by Michelangelo, is the oldest public art collection in the world. It contains some of the most symbolical pieces of Roman art, such the Etruscan bronze She Wolf, the Brutus, the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, the Esquiline Venus, the dying Galata. The painting collection includes works by Giovanni Bellini, Caravaggio, Rubens, Titian.
Palazzo Massimo National Roman Museum: largo Villa Peretti, 1
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 8:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 7:00pm.
Admission: 7.00 euro, reduced 3.50 euro.
One of the finest collection of antiquities in Rome. It display ancient roman frescoes detached from imperial villas dating to two thousand years ago; a rich collection of roman mosaics and the collection of coins form the roman time onward.
Museo della Civiltà Romana – Museum of Roman Civilization: Piazza Agnelli, 10
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 9:00am to 2.00pm; Sunday and holidays 9:00am to 1:30pm.
Admission: 8:50 euro, reduced 6:50 euro.
The museum consists of reproductions and casts illustrating the history of Rome from the beginning of the Roman times until the 6th century. Noteworthy is the plastic of ancient Rome, which gives an idea of what Rome looked like.
Museo di Castel Sant Angelo – Castel Sant Angelo National Museum: Lungotevere di Castello, 50 Tel. 066819111
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7:30pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6:30pm
Admission: 8.00 euro, reduced 5.50 euro; the price may vary for exhibitions.
Once Emperor Hadrian’s mausoleum, the structure was constantly used during the Middle ages as a fortress and prison to become, in the renaissance period, the residence of the popes. The building became a museum in 1925 and contains a historical military museum, paintings, ceramics, sculptures and tapestries.
Capitoline Museum Centrale Montemartini: via Ostiense, 106
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6:30pm
Admission: 6.50 euro, reduced 5.50 euro;
An extraordinary conversion into a museum dedicated to antiquities of the first public installation for elettrical energy production. Some works of art on display are of excellent quality and refinement and others are also extremely interesting from an historical point of view.
National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia: Piazza di villa Giulia, 9
Opening Hours: 8.30am to 7.30pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6:30pm
Admission: 8.00 euro, reduced 4.00 euro;
Created within one of the most beautiful Renaissance villas, it hosts the collection of Etruscan works of art witnessing the complexity and skills of the Etruscan civilization flourishing in V century BC in the area north of Rome.
Balbi Crypt National Roman Museum: via delle Botteghe Oscure, 31
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7.45pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6.45pm.
Admission: 7.00 euro, reduced 3.50 euro.
A museum particularly dedicated to early middle age times and the transformations occurred in Rome after the fall of the roman empire. The underground remain of Balbo theater are very interesting too.
Palazzo Altemps National Roman Museum: Piazza Sant’Apollinare, 46
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7.45pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6.45pm.
Admission: 7.00 euro, reduced 3.50 euro.
Archeological collections witnessing the taste and love of antiquities of Rome’s aristocratic families.
Baths of Diocletian National Roman Museum: via Enrico de Nicola, 78
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 8:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 7:00pm.
Admission: 7.00 euro, reduced 3.50 euro.
Created within the remains of the imposing Diocletian’s baths. It focus on primitive settlements in Rome’s region. Interesting section is dedicated to epigraphy and ancient daily life. Within the museum can be admired the splendid cloister projected by Michelangelo.
Museum delle Mura: via di Porta Sebastiano, 18
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 2.00pm; closed Mondays; December 25, January 1, May 1.
Admission: free
The Museum is housed inside the Porta S. Sebastian the Aurelian walls and offers visitors an educational itinerary focused on this important defensive system created in the 3rd century by emperor Aurelian, and constantly restored throughout the rest of Rome’s history.
Villa of Maxentius: Via Appia Antica, 153
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 1.30pm; closed Mondays. December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 1.00pm
Admission: 5.00 euro, reduced 4.00 euro.
The villa consists of three main areas: the villa itself the circus and the family mausoleum designed as a single whole by emperor Maxentius. Maxentius circus is by far the best preserved in town and extremely fascinating..
Museo Barracco: Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 168
The collection gets its name from the Barone Giovanni Barracco, who bequeathed it to the city of Rome in 1902. Contains Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman sculpture, some dating from 1500 BC. Beneath the museum are remains of a Roman building and frescoes; however this area is currently closed due to repairs.
National Museum of Oriental Art: via Merulana, 248
Opening Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 9:00am to 2:00pm; Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 9.00am to 7.30pm. Closed on Mondays , December 25, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 6.00 euro, reduced 3.00 euro.
Material from excavations in the Middle and far East
Art Galleries
Museo e Galleria Borghese – Borghese Museum and Art Gallery: Piazza Scipione Borghese, 5
Reservation Required: Telephone 0632810, www.ticketeria.it
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, 1 January. Tours lasts 2 hours starting at 9:00; 11:00; 1:00pm; 3:00; 5:00pm. Visitors are required to get their reserved ticket half an hour before their reservation time.
Admission: 8.50 euro, reduced 5.25 euro.
The villa was committed by Cardinal Scipione Borghese to hold his private collection of works of fine art and antiquities. Its world-famous pieces include sculptures by Bernini and Canova; paintings by Raphael, Caravaggio, Titian, Antonello da Messina, Botticelli, Correggio, Rubens and others.
Museo di Castel Sant Angelo – Castel Sant Angelo National Museum: Lungotevere di Castello, 50 Tel. 066819111
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7:30pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6:30pm
Admission: 8.00 euro, reduced 5.50 euro; the price may vary for exhibitions.
Once Emperor Hadrian’s mausoleum, the structure was constantly used during the Middle ages as a fortress and prison to become, in the renaissance period, the residence of the popes. The building became a museum in 1925 and contains a historical military museum, paintings, ceramics, sculptures and tapestries.
Villa Farnesina: via della Lungara, 230
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 2.00pm, closed on Sundays and holidays. Open on second Sunday of the month. Ticket office closes at 1.40pm
Admission: 5.00 euro, reduced 3.00 euro;
The villa of one of the leading personality of the renaissance age: the banker of the popes Agostino Chigi.
Designed and frescoed by the greatest artists of the period: Raphael and his pupils, Peruzzi, Sebastiano del Piombo and Sodoma. Not to be missed !
Galleria Colonna: via della Pilotta, 17
Opening Hours: Saturday only 9:00am to 1.15pm, closed in August
Admission: 10.00 euro, reduced 8.0 0 euro;
Paintings by italian and foreign artists from the XV to the XVIII century, decorate the halls and rooms of the most luxurious roman aristocratic palace. The colonna family, who retrace its origins to the XI century is one of the oldest and most influential in town. Their palace perfectly reflects their past glories.
Galleria Doria Pamphili: via del Corso, 305
Opening Hours: 10:00am to 6:00pm, closed on December 25, January 1, Easter, May 1, 15 August. Admission: 10.50 euro, reduced 7.50 euro;
The palace of the Doria Pamphili family hosts their rich painting collection with works by Titian, Caravaggio, Velasquez, Lippi and many others. The Piano Nobile gives a good understanding of noble palaces in the baroque times.
National Gallery of Ancient Art – Palazzo Barberini: via delle Quattro Fontane, 13
Opening Hours: 8:30am to 7:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6:00pm
Admission: 7.00 euro, reduced 3.50 euro; the price may vary for exhibitions.
The palace of the Barberini papal family has been recently restored and the art collection is rich and fascinating. On display are paintings of artists of the Italian school from the 14th to the 18th century, Caravaggio and Raphael amidst the others. Particularly worth of notice are also the staircases projected by Bernini and Borromini and the main hall frescoed by Pietro da Cortona.
Galleria Spada: piazza Capo di Ferro, 13
Opening Hours: 8:30am to 7:30pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 7:00pm
Admission: 5.00 euro, reduced 2.50 euro;
Works of art by Titian, Guido Reni and other 17th century artists. The famous trompe d’oeil by Borromini is a main attraction of the art gallery.
Palazzo Braschi - Museum of Rome: via di San Pantaleo
Opening Hours: 10:00am to 8:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 7:00pm.
Admission: 8.50 euro, reduced 6.50 euro.
A collection of works of art and paintings aimed to illustrate Rome’s history and culture between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Villa Torlonia Museums: Via Nomentana, 70
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6.15pm.
Admission: 8.50 euro, reduced 6.50 euro.
The museum is organized in three villas: the 18th century Casino Nobile hosts the Museum of the Villa and a collection of works from the roman school. The Museum of the Casina delle Civette focuses on stained glasses. The Casino dei Principi is the home of the Archives of the Roman School and hosts temporary exhibitions.
Historical
Jewish Museum of Rome: Lungotevere cenci
Opening Hours: Sunday –Thursday 10:00am to 4.15pm; Friday 9:00am to 1.15pm , closed on Saturdays, January 1, august 15.
Admission: 10.00 euro. Admission includes Museum and guided tour in the Tempio Maggiore and Tempio Spagnolo.
Works of art illustrating the traditions, religion and history of Rome’s Jewish community, one of the oldest in the world.
Keats and Shelley Memorial House: Piazza di Spagna, 26
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10:00am to 6:00pm (closed lunch time between 1 and 2pm); Saturday 11 to 2pm, and 3 to 6.oopm. Closed on Sundays , December 25, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 4.50 euro, reduced 3.50 euro.
Manuscripts and memories of the journeys to Italy of the romantic poets and of their roman stay together with the memories of the last period in the life of John Keats.
Balbi Crypt National Roman Museum: via delle Botteghe Oscure, 31
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7.45pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6.45pm.
Admission: 7.00 euro, reduced 3.50 euro.
A museum particularly dedicated to early middle age times and the transformations occurred in Rome after the fall of the roman empire. The underground remain of Balbo theater are very interesting too.
Museo dell’alto medioevo –Museum of the Early Middle Ages-: Viale Lincoln 1, EUR. Telephone 0654228199
Opening Hours: Tuesday, Friday, Saturday 9:00am to 2:00pm; Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday 9:00am to 7:00pm.
Admission: 2 euro, reduced 1 euro.
MEDIEVAL
Established in 1967 with a collection ranging from the 4th to the 10th century. Includes jewelry, building fragments, ceramics, pieces of fabrics etc., Greek and Roman.
Palazzo Braschi - Museum of Rome: via di San Pantaleo
Opening Hours: 10:00am to 8:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 7:00pm.
Admission: 8.50 euro, reduced 6.50 euro.
A collection of works of art and paintings aimed to illustrate Rome’s history and culture between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Napoleonic Museum: Piazza Umberto, 1
Opening Hours: 10:00am to 6:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 6.50 euro, reduced 5.50 euro.
A collection of memories of the Bonaparte Family donated to the city of Rome. The collection is aimed to document the close relationship between the Bonaparte’s and Rome. These ties were established by force of arms in 1808, after the French occupation of Rome. The city in 1811 was named "and imperial free city", destined to be ruled by Napoleon's son who was given, even before birth, the title of King of Rome.
Later, after the fall of the Empire, almost all members of the Bonaparte family sought asylum to Pope Pius VII and settled in Rome: the mother Letizia Ramolino, the brothers Louis and Jerome and napoleon’s sister, Pauline.
The Museum of the Roman Republic and Garibaldi Memorial: Largo di Porta San Pancrazio
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Friday 10:00am to 2:00pm; Saturday, Sunday and holidays 10:00am to 6:00pm closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 6.50 euro, reduced 5.50 euro.
The exhibition re-create the history of the Roman Republic from 1849 till its tragically but heroic end. Historical documents, educational materials and multimedia are on display.
Central Museum of the Italian ‘Risorgimento’: Complesso del Vittoriano, Via San Pietro in Carcere
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 6:00pm; closed on the first Monday of the month.
Admission: free
The great rooms inside the Vittoriano host over 500 works of art, old photography, relics and arms witnessing the struggles leading to the Italian unification in the 19th century up to the end of the First World War. Historical documentaries are subtitled in English. Worth of notice is the museum of the Italian flags, and the crypt of the unknown soldier.
Museum of Rome in Trastevere: piazza Sant’Egidio 1/b
Opening Hours: 10:00am to 8:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 7:00pm.
Admission: 5.00 euro, reduced 4.00 euro.
The Museum of Rome in Trastevere focus on the aspects of popular life in Rome from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, documented through the tastes and beliefs of artists and folklorists who depicted it. The collection includes paintings, prints, drawings and watercolors, together with representations known as ‘Roman scenes’, depicting life-size aspects of popular Roman life of the nineteenth century. The most represented themes are professions, secular and religious festivals, the traditional dresses.
National Museum of Popular art and Traditions: Piazza Marconi, 8
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 8:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 4.00 euro, reduced 2.00 euro.
Costumes and aspects of the traditional Italian life.
Modern and Contemporary Art
MAXXI –The national Museum of 21st century Art: Via Guido Reni, 4a
Opening Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday 11:00am to 7:00pm; Thursday and Saturday 11:00am to 10:00pm; closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 11.00 euro, reduced 8.00 euro;
The MAXXI museum is a special place for exhibition of contemporary art and a laboratory for cultural, artistic and linguistic experimentation.
Macro and Macro Testaccio
Macro Rome Museum of Contemporary Art: Via Nizza 138
Opening Hours: 11:00am to 7:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 12.00 euro, reduced 10.00 euro;
Macro is the reference point for contemporary art circle in Rome. The splendid exhibition center house the creations of Italian artists of international fame, in a period that goes from the sixties to today.
Macro Testaccio: piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4
Opening Hours: 4:00pm to 10:00pm. Ticket office closes at 9:30pm
Closed on Mondays, December 24, 25 and 31st, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 6.00 euro, reduced 4.00 euro;
Tickets Macro+ Macro Testaccio (valid 7 days) 14.50 euro, reduced 12.50
Macro Future hosts programs and exhibit attentive to new trends, multimedia arts and the talent of new generation artists.
GNAM the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art: via Francesco Crispi, 24
Opening Hours: 10.00am to 6:00pm. Closed on Mondays, December 24, 25 and 31st, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 6.50 euro, reduced 5.50 euro
Established in 1925 the art gallery documents the artistic scene in rome from the end of the 19th century to the post-war period. Sculptures, paintings and graphics.
Pietro Canonica Museum in Villa Borghese: Viale Pietro Canonica, 2; piazza di Siena
Opening Hours: 10.00am to 4:00pm. On holidays close at 1.30pm.Closed on Mondays, December 24, 25 and 31st, January 1, May 1.
Admission: 5.00 euro, reduced 4.00 euro
The museum is dedicated to the late 19th century artist Pietro Canonica and housed in his former home. Many sculptures and studies of the artist are on display.
Museum for Families and Kids
Museo di Castel Sant Angelo – Castel Sant Angelo National Museum: Lungotevere di Castello, 50 Tel. 066819111
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7:30pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6:30pm
Admission: 8.00 euro, reduced 5.50 euro; the price may vary for exhibitions.
Once Emperor Hadrian’s mausoleum, the structure was constantly used during the Middle ages as a fortress and prison to become, in the renaissance period, the residence of the popes. The building became a museum in 1925 and contains a historical military museum, paintings, ceramics, sculptures and tapestries.
Museo della Civiltà Romana – Museum of Roman Civilization: Piazza Agnelli, 10
Opening Hours: currently under restoration (Tuesday – Saturday 9:00am to 2.00pm; Sunday and holidays 9:00am to 1:30pm).
Admission: 8:50 euro, reduced 6:50 euro.
The museum consists of reproductions and casts illustrating the history of Rome from the beginning of the Roman times until the 6th century. Noteworthy is the plastic of ancient Rome, which gives an idea of what Rome looked like.
Villa of Maxentius: Via Appia Antica, 153
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 1.30pm; closed Mondays. December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 1.00pm
Admission: 5.00 euro, reduced 4.00 euro.
The villa consists of three main areas: the villa itself the circus and the family mausoleum designed as a single whole by emperor Maxentius. Maxentius circus is by far the best preserved in town and extremely fascinating… kids can run in the circus reenacting the chariot races !
Civic Museum of Zoology: via Ulisse Aldrovandi 18
Opening Hours: 9:00am to 7:00pm, closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1. Ticket office closes at 6.00pm
Admission: 7.00 euro, reduced 4.50 euro
The Museum of Zoology of Rome is a scientific center dedicated to the conservation, study and teaching of animal biodiversity.
The Museum is a great laboratory where, thanks to the amount of preserved species, it is possible to study the biological characteristics and the geographical distribution of animal species and of their environments.
Planetarium and Astronomic Museum: Piazza Giovanni Agnelli, 10 (same building that house the Museum of Roman Civilization)
Opening Hours, Tuesday to Friday: 9:00am to 2:00pm, Saturday 9:00am to 7.00pm.
Admission: 8:50 euro, reduced 6:50 euro.
closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1, May 1.
Museum with shows on science and astronomy. Shows are scheduled every hour.