Best Museums in Rome
Rome is home to 6 world-class museums. From ancient collections to contemporary art, here is your complete guide with opening hours, prices, and directions.
Capitoline Museums
The world's first public museum, on Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio.
- Admission
- €16 standard admission
- Founded
- 1471
Galleria Borghese
The cardinal Scipione Borghese's villa, holding the greatest concentration of Bernini sculpture in the world.
- Admission
- €13 standard admission
- Founded
- 1903
Galleria Doria Pamphilj
A privately owned palace gallery on Via del Corso, with five hundred Old Master paintings still hung in their princely setting.
- Admission
- €16 standard admission
- Founded
- 1651
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica – Palazzo Barberini
Italy's national collection of ancient and Baroque painting, in the magnificent Palazzo Barberini.
- Admission
- €15 standard admission
- Founded
- 1949
MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Arts
Zaha Hadid's first major museum building, devoted to the architecture and contemporary art of the twenty-first century.
- Admission
- €12 standard admission
- Founded
- 2010
Palazzo Massimo alle Terme
The principal site of the National Roman Museum, with extraordinary Roman sculpture, mosaics, and frescoes.
- Admission
- €8 standard admission
- Founded
- 1995