Galleria dell’Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Palazzo Carpegna Piazza dell’Accademia di San Luca 77, Roma
closes in 5 days “alla studiosa Gioventù del Disegno”. I Concorsi Clementini di architettura. 1702–1869
1 September to 24 October 2026
More than a hundred and forty drawings from the competition Pope Clement XI founded in 1702 for young architects, open to foreigners too and held until 1869. The Academy keeps almost a thousand winning drawings, all viewable online. It closes on 24 October.
- Opening hours
- Da martedì a venerdì 15-19, sabato 10-19. Domenica e lunedì chiuso
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Mattatoio Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4, 00153 Roma
closes in 6 days Giuseppe Modica. Il fuoco nel mare
11 September to 25 October 2026
The Mattatoio in Testaccio is a nineteenth century slaughterhouse turned exhibition space, and Pavilion 9a holds Giuseppe Modica’s painting, curated by Giuseppe Appella. Entry is free, and it closes on 25 October.
- Ticket
- Ingresso libero
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Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Viale delle Belle Arti 131, 00197 Roma
closes in 6 days After. Un percorso di lavoro. Fendi / Karl Lagerfeld 1985
10 July to 25 October 2026
The Galleria Nazionale restages the exhibition Karl Lagerfeld staged there in 1985 to mark twenty years of work with Fendi. An avowed remake, best read as an archive prised open again.
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Musei Capitolini Piazza del Campidoglio 1, 00186 Roma
closes in 13 days Angeli. Messaggeri, custodi e viandanti
13 May to 1 November 2026
The ground floor rooms of Palazzo dei Conservatori gather angel figures from antiquity to the present. The museum presents it as an exhibition in memory of Pope Francis: messengers, guardians and wayfarers, as the subtitle has it.
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Museo Carlo Bilotti, Aranciera di Villa Borghese Viale dell’Aranciera 4, 00197 Roma
closes in 20 days States of Uncertain Domesticities
19 September to 8 November 2026
It comes from Berlin and Brno with a new layout, and it is about the home and about living, from a feminist and political angle. It opens on 19 September at the Aranciera in Villa Borghese and closes on 8 November.
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Vittoriano, Museo Centrale del Risorgimento e Ala Fori Imperiali Piazza Venezia, Roma
closes in 20 days Roma in moneta. Arte e potere nella storia della città eterna
2 July to 8 November 2026
Of the three venues of Roma in moneta, only this one is still open: the Vittoriano holds the part on the modern and contemporary age, in nine sections. The Baths of Diocletian and the Temple of Romulus closed on 27 September, while here it runs until 8 November.
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RIPENSE, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca Via Ripense 6, Roma
closes in 26 days LIVING! Julian Beck pittore
10 July to 14 November 2026
Some forty paintings and drawings from 1944 to 1958, before Julian Beck left painting for the Living Theatre, with photographs, posters and stage costumes from the company’s archive. Free entry, in the Accademia di San Luca’s new space in Trastevere.
- Opening hours
- Da martedì a sabato 15:30-20. Domenica e lunedì chiuso
- Ticket
- Ingresso libero
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Museo Carlo Bilotti, Aranciera di Villa Borghese Viale dell’Aranciera 4, 00197 Roma
closes in 27 days Marina Bindella. Cosmografie
26 September to 15 November 2026
About forty works, between paintings, woodcuts, watercolours and large polyptychs: it is where Marina Bindella’s recent work stands. It opens on 26 September at the Aranciera in Villa Borghese and closes on 15 November.
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Museo dell’Arte Salvata, Aula Ottagona delle Terme di Diocleziano Via Giuseppe Romita 8, 00185 Roma
closes in 27 days AEGYPTUS. Dal Nilo al Mediterraneo
4 July to 15 November 2026
The least told chapter of Roman Egypt: the oases of the western desert between the first century BC and the fifth AD. Finds from the Museo Nazionale Romano, some recovered by the Carabinieri art squad, are set against video art and digital reconstructions.
- Opening hours
- Da martedì a domenica 9-19, ultimo ingresso alle 18. Lunedì chiuso
- Ticket
- Aula Ottagona 5 euro, biglietto intero del Museo Nazionale Romano 15 euro
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MACRO, Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma Via Nizza 138, 00198 Roma
closes in 27 days Miriam Cahn. Ciò che mi guarda
11 June to 15 November 2026
The first Italian museum retrospective devoted to Miriam Cahn, curated by Cristiana Perrella: over 130 paintings, drawings and pastels on the body, vulnerability and the violence of war. Painting that stares back at you, and not a restful visit.
- Opening hours
- Da martedì a venerdì 12-19, sabato e domenica 10-19. Lunedì chiuso
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Musei Capitolini, Centrale Montemartini Via Ostiense 106, 00154 Roma
closes in 27 days Moda in luce 1955-1975. Roma fra glamour e innovazione industriale
26 June to 15 November 2026
One hundred and fifty photographs, film clips and original garments by Valentino, Fendi and the Fontana sisters, shown in the machine hall of a former power station. The clash between turbines and couture is the reason to go.
- Opening hours
- Da martedì a domenica 9-19, ultimo ingresso un’ora prima. Lunedì chiuso
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MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo Via Guido Reni 4A, 00196 Roma
closes in 27 days Vitalità dell’architettura italiana 1946-2026
29 May to 15 November 2026
Eighty years of Italian architecture since the war: it opens with interviews with eight architects, from Renzo Piano to Paola Viganò, and closes with eight practices of the Erasmus generation. In between, the BBPR monument in Milan reworked by Matilde Cassani.
- Opening hours
- Da martedì a domenica 11:00-19:00. Chiuso il lunedì
- Ticket
- Intero 15 euro, 14 online. Ridotto 12 euro, 11 online, per chi ha fra 18 e 25 anni
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Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 166/A, 00186 Roma
closes in 27 days Divina d’Acciaio. La statua-ritratto di Maria Callas
24 September to 15 November 2026
A single work: Maria Callas in stainless steel, by the Greek artist Nikos Floros, holding in her palm the sonogram of her voice singing Casta Diva. It stands among the ancient sculptures of the Barracco, and Rome residents get in free.
- Opening hours
- Da martedì a domenica 10:00-18:00, ultimo ingresso 17:15. Chiuso il lunedì
- Ticket
- Intero 7,50 euro, ridotto 6 euro. Gratuito per i residenti a Roma
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Museo nazionale di Castel Sant’Angelo, appartamento del Castellano Lungotevere Castello 50, 00193 Roma
until 22 November 2026 Fuochi sul Tevere. Roma attraverso gli occhi di Kanutas Ruseckas
8 July to 22 November 2026
The Roman paintings of Kanutas Ruseckas, a nineteenth-century Lithuanian artist, shown in the Castellano apartment. Among his subjects is the Girandola, the firework display that for centuries lit up this very castle.
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Museo di Roma in Trastevere Piazza Sant’Egidio 1/b, 00153 Roma
until 22 November 2026 LAS GRIETAS. Sulle tracce di una fantasia
1 October to 22 November 2026
Fabiola Ferrero, a Venezuelan photographer born in 1991 and winner of the IILA-Fotografia prize: four series on her country, from beauty queens to going back to childhood places, plus Contramonumento, shot in Rome and never shown before.
- Opening hours
- Da martedì a domenica 10:00-20:00, ultimo ingresso 19:00. Chiuso il lunedì
- Ticket
- Intero 9,50 euro, ridotto 5 euro
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Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen Via Pasquale Stanislao Mancini 20, Roma
until 22 November 2026 Artiste Contemporanee a Casa Andersen. Il corpo come dimora
29 September to 22 November 2026
Sixty works by forty two women artists, among them Louise Bourgeois, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin and Kiki Smith, set against the monumental, idealised bodies of Andersen’s sculptures, in the villa where he lived and worked. Until 22 November.
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Musei di Villa Torlonia, Casina delle Civette Via Nomentana 70, 00161 Roma
until 29 November 2026 Sotto una buona stella
27 March to 29 November 2026
The emblem of the Italian Republic, the one with the star, was designed by Paolo Paschetto: this show tells its story, at the Casina delle Civette. It has been extended to 29 November, two months past the date many sites still give.
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Museo di Roma in Trastevere Piazza Sant’Egidio 1/b, 00153 Roma
until 6 December 2026 Fulco Pratesi. Acquerelli Pionieri
16 September to 6 December 2026
Fulco Pratesi founded WWF Italy, and he is also an architect, an illustrator and a journalist: here it is his watercolours you look at. It opens on 16 September at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere and runs to 6 December.
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Musei Capitolini, Villa Caffarelli Piazza del Campidoglio 1, 00186 Roma
until 13 December 2026 Diego Rivera e la costruzione dell’arte moderna in Messico nel XX secolo
9 June to 13 December 2026
The widest survey of Mexican art seen in Europe in decades: over 140 works, with Frida Kahlo, Orozco and Siqueiros alongside Rivera. It is housed at Villa Caffarelli, so it pairs naturally with the Capitoline Museums.
- Opening hours
- Tutti i giorni 9:30-19:30, ultimo ingresso un’ora prima della chiusura
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Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia Piazzale di Villa Giulia 9, Roma
until 31 December 2026 Il Ritorno degli Eroi
1 July to 31 December 2026
Beside the thirty-seven painted panels of the François Tomb, on show at Villa Giulia since July, objects from its grave goods return on loan from the Louvre, the British Museum, Brussels and Lausanne. The show is included in the museum ticket, but must be booked.
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Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme Largo di Villa Peretti 2, Roma
until 31 December 2026 Memorie sommerse. I bronzi del Ponte di Valentiniano
5 December 2025 to 31 December 2026
Three bronzes fished out of the Tiber in 1878 during work on the embankments: a male head with a diadem, a gilded togate figure and the right wing of a Victory. They decorated the bridge of Valentinian, today’s ponte Sisto. Extended to the end of December.
- Ticket
- Incluso nel biglietto del museo
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Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia Piazzale di Villa Giulia 9, Roma
until 3 January 2027 Dayanita Singh. Archivio
25 September 2026 to 3 January 2027
More than 350 photographs by Dayanita Singh mounted on sixteen wooden structures of twenty images each, which can be moved and rearranged: Italian archives, interiors, flowers and friends. It is included in the Etruscan museum’s ticket, an unexpected pairing.
- Ticket
- Incluso nel biglietto del museo
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Musei Capitolini Piazza del Campidoglio 1, 00186 Roma
until 4 January 2027 Il non finito: fra poetica e tecnica esecutiva
15 January 2026 to 4 January 2027
Paintings left half done, shown in the Pinacoteca for what they reveal: the drawing underneath, the second thoughts, the solutions discarded. It is the longest running show on the Campidoglio, open until 4 January 2027, so there is no rush.
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Museo Napoleonico Piazza di Ponte Umberto I 1, Roma
until 10 January 2027 Il barocco italiano a Dresda
25 September 2026 to 10 January 2027
Architectural drawings from the Saxon heritage office, back in Rome after some three hundred years: among them Gaetano Chiaveri’s court church, finished in 1751, and the largest known drawing by Pellegrini. A small show, in four rooms.
- Opening hours
- Da martedì a domenica 10:00-18:00, ultimo ingresso 17:15. Il 24 e il 31 dicembre 10:00-14:00. Chiuso il lunedì e il 25 dicembre
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Terme di Caracalla Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 52, Roma
until 10 January 2027 Frank Horvat
11 September 2026 to 10 January 2027
Seventy two photographs by Frank Horvat in three sections inside the Baths: portraits of women and the fashion shoots at the Galleria L’Obelisco in one of the gyms, Vere Sembianze in the vaulted rooms, and the early 1980s series Goethe in Sicilia. Until 10 January.
- Opening hours
- Da martedì a domenica 9-18:30 fino al 24 ottobre, 9-16:30 dal 26 ottobre. Lunedì chiuso
- Ticket
- Intero 10 euro, ridotto 4 euro
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Villa Medici, Accademia di Francia a Roma Viale della Trinità dei Monti 1, 00187 Roma
until 18 January 2027 Soleil noir. Pétrole et art contemporain
9 October 2026 to 18 January 2027
Oil, as contemporary art looks at it, at Villa Medici. It opens on 9 October and closes on 18 January, and it is worth knowing beforehand that the fixed date ticket costs three euros less than the open one: twelve against fifteen.
- Opening hours
- Da mercoledì a lunedì 10:00-19:00, ultimo ingresso 18:30. Chiuso il martedì
- Ticket
- Intero 15 euro con data aperta, 12 euro a data fissa. Ridotto 12 e 10 euro
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MACRO, Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma Via Nizza 138, 00198 Roma
until 31 January 2027 Marialba Russo, “Sguardo rovescio”
24 September 2026 to 31 January 2027
The first major exhibition in an Italian museum devoted to the photographer Marialba Russo, with six bodies of her work from the 1970s. Mind the MACRO’s hours: Tuesday to Friday it opens only at noon, on Saturday and Sunday at ten.
- Opening hours
- Da martedì a venerdì 12:00-19:00, sabato e domenica 10:00-19:00. Ultimo ingresso mezz’ora prima. Chiuso il lunedì
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Palazzo Esposizioni Roma Via Nazionale 194, 00184 Roma
until 31 January 2027 Richard Avedon. In the American West. 1979-1984
9 October 2026 to 31 January 2027
A hundred and ten prints from the series Richard Avedon shot between 1979 and 1984 for the Amon Carter Museum in Texas: miners, herdsmen, salesmen and drifters of the American West, portrayed against a white backdrop. It comes from the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.
- Opening hours
- Da martedì a domenica 10:00-20:00, ultimo ingresso un’ora prima. Chiuso il lunedì
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Parco archeologico del Colosseo Piazza del Colosseo 1, 00184 Roma
until 6 February 2027 The Greeting di Bill Viola
11 October 2026 to 6 February 2027
The Greeting, the 1995 video in which Bill Viola slows a 45-second encounter to ten minutes, inspired by Pontormo’s Visitation. It is in Santa Maria Antiqua, in the Roman Forum, among early medieval frescoes, and follows the Park’s opening hours.
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Scuderie del Quirinale Via XXIV Maggio 16, 00187 Roma
until 7 February 2027 Pontormo
9 October 2026 to 7 February 2027
The first major monographic exhibition ever devoted to Pontormo, with the Carmignano Visitation and loans from the Uffizi, the Louvre and the National Gallery. It opens on 9 October, and on 21 September tickets were not yet on sale: check before you go.
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MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo Via Guido Reni 4A, 00196 Roma
until 7 February 2027 Sophie Calle. Matrimoni, Rotture e Funerali inclusi
16 October 2026 to 7 February 2027
For the first time in Rome, an overview of Sophie Calle’s work, more than forty years of research between photography and storytelling. The MAXXI ticket costs 15 euros, one less if you buy it online, and the museum is closed on Mondays.
- Opening hours
- Da martedì a domenica 11:00-19:00. Chiuso il lunedì
- Ticket
- Intero 15 euro, 14 online. Ridotto 12 euro, 11 online, per chi ha fra 18 e 25 anni
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Galleria d’Arte Moderna Via Francesco Crispi 24, 00187 Roma
until 7 February 2027 GAM 100. Un secolo di Galleria comunale 1925-2025
20 December 2025 to 7 February 2027
The municipal Gallery of Modern Art was born on 28 October 1925 in the rooms of Palazzo Caffarelli, on the Campidoglio, not in via Crispi. For its centenary it retraces its own history, with 25 works changed in June. Extended to 7 February 2027.
- Opening hours
- Da martedì a domenica 10:00-19:00, ultimo ingresso 18:30. Il 24 e il 31 dicembre 10:00-14:00. Chiuso il lunedì, il 25 dicembre e il 1° maggio
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Palazzo Bonaparte Piazza Venezia 5, Roma
until 14 February 2027 Kandinsky
15 September 2026 to 14 February 2027
Palazzo Bonaparte opens the Roman season with the father of abstraction, as the venue itself puts it. Friday to Sunday you can go in until nine in the evening, Monday to Thursday it closes at half past seven: the difference changes the kind of visit.
- Opening hours
- Da lunedì a giovedì 9:00-19:30, da venerdì a domenica 9:00-21:00. La biglietteria chiude un’ora prima
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Musei di Villa Torlonia, Casino dei Principi Via Nomentana 70, 00161 Roma
until 28 February 2027 Elisa Montessori. Nel corso del tempo
30 September 2026 to 28 February 2027
Elisa Montessori at the Casino dei Principi, from 30 September to 28 February. The title states the intention, a path taken over time, and five months of opening mean there is no need to chase it: you can wait for the right day.
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La Vaccheria Via Giovanni L’Eltore 35, Roma
until 28 March 2027 Andy Warhol. Forever Love
10 September 2026 to 28 March 2027
Fifty one works by Warhol, plus some sixty documents and twenty eight unpublished photographs that Dino Pedriali took of him in Italy in 1978. Free entry, out in the EUR district, and it stays open until 28 March 2027.
- Opening hours
- Da martedì a giovedì 9:00-13:00, da venerdì a domenica 9:00-19:00. Chiuso il lunedì
- Ticket
- Ingresso libero
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Museo di Roma, Palazzo Braschi Piazza San Pantaleo 10, 00186 Roma
until 11 April 2027 Keith Haring
6 October 2026 to 11 April 2027
More than a hundred and forty works from the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection, the largest collection in the world devoted to the artist, in a palace that usually tells the story of papal Rome. The ticket costs 17 euros and the museum is closed on Mondays.
- Opening hours
- Da martedì a domenica 10:00-19:00. Il 24 e il 31 dicembre 10:00-14:00. Chiuso il lunedì e il 25 dicembre
- Ticket
- Intero 17 euro, ridotto 15 euro
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Dates and prices change, and this page may not reflect the latest updates: before you travel, always check the museum’s own page, linked under each exhibition, which is the most reliable source.
