If you are relocating or have successfully completed your relocation to Rome, you must know that being a Roman resident just got a whole lot better!
Rome’s Municipality started a campaign that aims to reclaim the city’s cultural heritage in our day-to-day life. Among the cultural policies of this year, the Municipality decided to make access to civic museums free for residents all year round starting from February the 2nd, so that they can really be part of the museo a cielo aperto that is Rome. This way, going to a museum will be as easy as a stroll in the park! So now, whether you want to wander through the Fori Imperiali or visit the Ara Pacis or pretend to be in a chariot race in the Archaeological Area of the Circus Maximus, you can do it for free just by showing your ID.
Be careful though! Shows at the Planetarium of Rome, visits to the Bunkers at Villa Torlonia and the Circus Maximus Experience will remain subject to a fee.
Here is the list of the museums that now are free:
- Musei Capitolini (shows excluded – for a fee)
- Centrale Montemartini (shows excluded – for a fee)
- Mercati di Traiano – Museo dei Fori Imperiali
- Museo dell’Ara Pacis (shows excluded – for a fee)
- Museo di Roma a Palazzo Braschi (shows excluded – for a fee)
- Museo di Roma in Trastevere
- Galleria d’Arte Moderna
- Musei di Villa Torlonia (all buildings)
- Museo Civico di Zoologia
- Area Sacra di Largo Argentina
- Circo Massimo (only archeological area)
- Museo della Forma Urbis (Parco Archeologico del Celio)
- Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco
- Museo delle Mura
- Museo Carlo Bilotti
- Museo Pietro Canonica
- Museo Napoleonico
- Villa di Massenzio
- Museo della Repubblica Romana e della Memoria Garibaldina
- Museo di Casal de’ Pazzi
- Casa Museo Alberto Moravia (booking needed)
For tourists and non-residents, museums will remain for a fee, and a ticket will be introduced for five museums and monuments, previously free: Museo Carlo Bilotti, Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco, Museo Pietro Canonica, Museo Napoleonico, Villa di Massenzio.
Also, the beloved Fontana di Trevi will be affected by this new policy. In order to access to the basin – which is the nearest part of the Trevi fountain – tourists and non-residents must pay a ticket of two euros valid every day from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Access will remain free for residents, children up to 5 years of age and people with disabilities and their carers.
If you are in Rome and your Town Hall enrollment is not yet finalized, do not despair! Your thirst for culture can be satisfied on the first Sunday of each month. On that day, all over Italy museums are free!
In any case, museums are not the only way to lose yourself in the magic of Italy. Do not forget to check on local festivities and traditions!
