Museums
National Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia in Rome
Italy's national Etruscan museum in Rome's Villa Giulia houses artefacts from pre-Roman Italian antiquity, particularly from the Etruscan era.Located near Villa Borghese, the museum's two floors host...
Flaminio
Museums in Flaminio
Rome's Palazzo Merulana art museum
Palazzo Merulana houses Cerasi collection of 20th-century Italian art.Palazzo Merulana, a museum hosting the important early 20th-century art collection of the Cerasi Foundation, is located beside the...
Esquilino
Museums in Esquilino
Visiting Rome's Palazzo Barberini Gallery
Rome palace is home to Italy's Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica.
The 17th-century Barberini Palace in central Rome houses the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Italy's national collection of 13th- to...
Historic centre
Museums in Historic centre
Historic Museum of the Liberation of Rome
Former Gestapo headquarters houses Historical Museum of the Liberation of Rome.
Housed in a former SS prison, Rome's Liberation Museum documents the persecution of Jews and resistance figures who wer...
S. Giovanni
Museums in S. Giovanni
Underground Rome: Case Romane del Celio
Little-known Rome museum contains 20 ancient underground rooms.
The Case Romane del Celio is an underground archaeological site comprising 20 rooms on various levels under the church of SS. Giovanni...
Colosseum, Monti
Museums in Colosseum, Monti
Domus Romane at Rome's Palazzo Valentini
Through a mixture of archaeological remains and virtual reality, a visit to the ancient Domus Romane under Rome's Palazzo Valentini provides a sense of life in imperial Roman times.
The archaeologica...
Historic centre
Museums in Historic centre
Mattatoio Rome
The former MACRO Testaccio exhibition space is now known by its new name "Il Mattatoio" in reference to the building's former role as a slaughterhouse. Together with its sister site, MACRO on Via Nizz...
Testaccio
Museums in Testaccio
Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum in Rome
The Norwegian artist Hendrik Christian Andersen lived in Rome from 1896 until his death in 1940. In the 1920s he built Villa Helene, his neo-renaissance home on Via P. Stanislao Mancini near Piazzale...
Flaminio
Museums in Flaminio
Galleria Borghese
Rome's celebrated Galleria Borghese houses sculptures by Bernini and Canova alongside paintings by Titian, Caravaggio, Raphael and Correggio. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Entry times: 11.00, 13.00, 15.00,...
Popolo - Spagna
Museums in Popolo - Spagna
Explora - The Children's Museum in Rome
Explora is a permanenent children's museum in Rome.
It's a game, a discovery a fun and learning experience for children of all ages.
Located in Via Flaminia 82, a few steps from Piazza del...
Centrale Montemartini
One of Rome's quirkiest but least-visited museums, Centrale Montemartini is a former industrial power plant housing over 400 pieces of ancient sculpture from the collection of the Capitoline Museums....
Ostiense
Museums in Ostiense
Barracco Museum
A collection of mainly pre-Roman art. Tues-Sun 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. €3.
Historic centre
Museums in Historic centre
Palazzo Venezia Museum
Much of the permanent exhibition is closed for restoration. Mediaeval to 18th-century decorative arts. 08.30-19.00. Mon closed. 4. Guided tours in Italian. Also temporary exhibitions
Historic centre
Museums in Historic centre
Baths of Caracalla
The third-century AD bath complex that remained in use until the Goths cut its water supply in the sixth century AD. 09.00-16.30. Mon 09.00-14.00. €6.
Aventino, San Saba
Museums in Aventino, San Saba
Canonica Museum
The collection, private apartment and studio of the sculptor and musician Pietro Canonica who died in 1959. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. €3, reduced €1.50. Guided tours in Italian and English (b...
Historic centre
Museums in Historic centre
Roman Domus on the Celio
Ancient Roman buildings reopened to the public after extensive restoration. 10.00-13.00, 15.00-18.00. Tues-Wed closed. €6.
Colosseum, Monti
Museums in Colosseum, Monti
Baths of Diocletian
Part of the protohistorical section of the Museo Nazionale Romano in the Baths of Diocletian plus the restored cloister by Michelangelo. 09.00-19.45. Mon closed.
Esquilino
Museums in Esquilino
Museo dei Fori Imperiali and Trajan's Markest
Museum dedicated to the forums of Caesar, Augustus, Nerva and Trajan and the Temple of Peace. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. €6.50. 24 and 31 December 09.00-14.00.
Historic centre
Museums in Historic centre
Vatican Museums
Not only the Sistine Chapel but also the Egyptian and Etruscan collections and the Pinacoteca. Mon-Sat 09.00- 18.00. Sun (and bank holidays) closed except last Sun of month (free entry, 08.30-12.30)....
St Peter's
Museums in St Peter's
Capitoline Museums
The city’s collection of ancient sculpture in Palazzo Nuovo and Palazzo dei Conservatori, plus the Tabularium and the Pinacoteca. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. €6,50 + exhibition supplement. Gui...
Historic centre
Museums in Historic centre
