Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome: opening hours, tickets and masterpieces

Updated on October 5, 2026

The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, still called "GNAM" by Romans, stands at 131 Viale delle Belle Arti on the edge of the Villa Borghese, in a neoclassical palace built for the 1911 Exhibition by the architect Cesare Bazzani. It is Italy's great museum of 19th- and 20th-century art, with more than 20,000 works, from Canova's sculptures to the avant-gardes of the 20th century, including paintings by Klimt, Monet, Van Gogh and Duchamp. It is open Tuesday to Sunday from 8:30am to 7:30pm; a ticket costs €10, and admission is free for under-18s and on the first Sunday of the month. Allow 2 hours, more if you like 20th-century art.

Highlights

The façade and grand staircase

Bazzani's palace, with its large columned portico and statues along the roofline, overlooks a wide paved forecourt at the entrance to the Villa Borghese. Bazzani himself extended the building in the 1930s, which explains its two symmetrical wings. The rooms follow a chronological route.

Italian painters and sculptors of the 19th century

The first rooms bring together Canova's neoclassicism, romanticism, the Tuscan Macchiaioli and late-century genre scenes, such as the canvases of Vittorio Matteo Corcos. They show how newly unified Italy went looking for a national image.

Klimt, Monet, Van Gogh and the foreign masters

At the heart of the collection are works by Gustav Klimt, including The Three Ages of Woman (1905), Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh and Marcel Duchamp. These early-20th-century acquisitions make the GNAM one of the few Italian museums to show the great European names alongside Italians.

Futurism and 20th-century painting

The 20th-century rooms present Futurism (Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni), Giorgio de Chirico, Modigliani, then post-war art with Lucio Fontana and Alberto Burri, and works of American abstract expressionism including Jackson Pollock. The displays change: some works may be on loan.

Temporary exhibitions

The museum stages several exhibitions a year, sometimes thematic displays that disrupt the chronological route. Check before you go: the ticket covers the whole museum, exhibitions included, unless stated otherwise on site.

Opening hours and prices

Open Tuesday to Sunday from 8:30am to 7:30pm, last entry 45 minutes before closing; closed on Monday, 1 January and 25 December. Full price: €10; reduced price of €5 for EU citizens aged 18 to 25 and EU teachers; free for under-18s, some students, journalists, ICOM members and for everyone on the first Sunday of the month.

Practical info

Tips

On the first Sunday of the month (1 November 2026), admission is free for everyone, but the museum is then busier: arrive at opening time. Photography without flash is allowed; food, large bags and animals (other than assistance dogs) stay outside. The museum is fully accessible to visitors with reduced mobility (lifts, platform lifts, two wheelchairs lent). Prices checked in October 2026 on the museum's official website.

How to get there

Viale delle Belle Arti 131, 00197 Rome. Metro line A to Flaminio, then about 600 m on foot uphill towards the Villa Giulia; trams 3 and 19 to the stop near the museum. Several bus lines also serve Viale delle Belle Arti. The museum is a 10-minute walk from the Villa Giulia, and about 15 minutes from the Bioparco through the park paths.