Table Of Contents
- Mario Mafai and Antonietta Raphaël – Villa Torlonia Museums, Casino dei Principi
- Migrations – XVI IILA-Photography Prize – Museo di Roma in Trastevere
- John Paul II. The Man, the Pope, the Saint in the Shots of Gianni Giansanti – Castel Sant'Angelo
- Rome in the World – MAXXI
- 18th Quadrennial Art Exhibition "Fantastica" – Palazzo delle Esposizioni.
- Maria Barosso, artist and archaeologist in transforming Rome – Musei Capitolini / Centrale Montemartini
- Alphonse Mucha – Bonaparte Palace
- DALÍ. Revolution and Tradition – Palazzo Cipolla / Museo del Corso
- Treasures of the Pharaohs – Scuderie del Quirinale
- Rosa Barba. Frame Time Open – MAXXI
- Sveva Caetani: Form and Fragment – MAXXI
- FLOWERS. From the Renaissance to Artificial Intelligence – Chiostro del Bramante
Art is in Rome’s DNA, and a season packed with exhibitions, displays and artistic events to experience in every corner of the city is ready for enthusiasts. From major retrospectives in historic museums to daring contemporary art exhibitions and photographic shows that tell the world through new looks, the capital city once again becomes an exceptional stage for art lovers in all its forms.
Whether you are a Roman in search of new cultural stimulation or a visitor discovering the wonders of Rome, this guide takes you on a journey to discover the 12 must-see exhibitions in the coming months – including initiatives already underway, new openings and unmissable events hosted in the city’s most iconic museums.
Ready to discover the upcoming exhibitions in Rome to mark your calendar?
Mario Mafai and Antonietta Raphaël – Villa Torlonia Museums, Casino dei Principi
An exhibition that is also a life story. The path dedicated to Mafai and Raphaël at the Casino dei Principi is an interweaving of art and feeling, of individuality and collaboration. The pictorial and plastic language of the two artists reflects, recedes, and seeks each other. The works on display show how two different visions can create a third form of expression: relationship.
📍Casino dei Principi – Museums of Villa Torlonia, Via Nomentana, 64, 00161 Rome
📅 Through November 2, 2025
🎟️ Full price ticket €8; reduced €5. For residents: full price €5; reduced €4.
Migrations – XVI IILA-Photography Prize – Museo di Roma in Trastevere
A photography exhibition that explores routes, stories and identities in constant motion: young Latin American photographers under 40 focus on the theme of migration, with poignant images, light-shadow contrasts and visual narratives that defy distance. Ideal for those seeking exhibitions that speak to current events, global vision and social engagement.
📍 Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Piazza di S. Egidio, 1/b, 00153 Rome
📅 Through Nov. 9, 2025
🎟️ Full exhibition ticket approx. €9.50; reduced €5
John Paul II. The Man, the Pope, the Saint in the Shots of Gianni Giansanti – Castel Sant’Angelo
A story in images of the long pontificate of John Paul II, through the intense and intimate shots of the Pope’s official photojournalist.
📍Lungotevere Castello 50
📅 Through Nov. 30, 2025
🎟️ Full price ticket €16; reduced €2
Rome in the World – MAXXI
The project explores Rome ‘s role as a global metropolis, relating the city to other metropolises around the world through art, architecture, literature, and imagery: reflections on urban life, migration flows, and the relationship with history and innovation.
📍 KME Gallery, MAXXI, Via Guido Reni, 4a, 00196 Rome
📅 November 28, 2025 – March 15, 2026
🎟️ Full ticket €14; reduced €11
18th Quadrennial Art Exhibition “Fantastica” – Palazzo delle Esposizioni.
A major group exhibition taking stock of contemporary Italian art, with works by emerging and established artists; installations, painting, video, performance curated to dialogue with the exhibition space in innovative ways. The theme “Fantastica” explores imagination, the marvelous, and the surreal as critical tools of reality.
📍 Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale, 194, 00184 Rome
📅 Through Jan. 18, 2026
🎟️ Full ticket approx. €12.50; reduced €10
Maria Barosso, artist and archaeologist in transforming Rome – Musei Capitolini / Centrale Montemartini
First monographic exhibition dedicated to Maria Barosso, who worked as a draftsman within the General Directorate of Antiquities and Fine Arts, documenting with detailed watercolors the demolitions, construction sites and building transformations of Rome in the early decades of the 20th century.
📍 Capitoline Museums – Centrale Montemartini, Via Ostiense 106, 00154 Rome
📅 October 17, 2025 – February 22, 2026
🎟️ Full ticket €11; reduced €6.50. Free exhibition with MIC Card (card museums of Rome).
Alphonse Mucha – Bonaparte Palace
An immersion in Art Nouveau through Mucha’s work: posters, prints, paintings, ornamental design that showcase the elegant femininity, decorative curves and stylized nature typical of the great Czech master. Ornamental details, soft but charming color palettes, a care for decoration that also speaks to modern design.
📍 Palazzo Bonaparte, Piazza Venezia, 5, 00186 Rome
📅 Through March 8, 2026
🎟️ Full ticket approx. €19.50; concessions from €8.50
DALÍ. Revolution and Tradition – Palazzo Cipolla / Museo del Corso
A monograph full of contrasts: on the one hand the Surrealist break, on the other Dalí’s traditional engagement with classical techniques, mythology, religious symbols and historical references. Paintings, drawings, graphics, medium-sized works that capture the visionary soul of an artist torn between dream and memory.
📍 Palazzo Cipolla / Museo del Corso, Via del Corso, 320, 00186 Rome
📅 October 17, 2025 – February 1, 2026
🎟️ Approximate full ticket €18: reduced €10
Treasures of the Pharaohs – Scuderie del Quirinale
From October 24, painting exhibitions in Rome also give way to archaeology with an exceptional Egyptian exhibition. Statues, sarcophagi, jewelry, ritual objects: more than 130 artifacts from Egypt’s most important museums trace the history of the Pharaohs in six thematic sections. A powerful exhibition even for those who have never delved into ancient history.
📍Scuderie del Quirinale, Via Ventiquattro Maggio, 16, 00186 Rome
📅 October 24, 2025 – May 3, 2026
🎟️ Full ticket €20.50; under 30 €14.50
Rosa Barba. Frame Time Open – MAXXI
A monographic exhibition that focuses on experimentation between film, light, sound and space. Rosa Barba creates video installations that take on the architectural dimension, capturing temporality as visual matter: projections that play with reflections, memories, cinematic pauses interrupted by the breath of space.
📍 MAXXI, Via Guido Reni, 4a, 00196 Rome
📅 26 November 2025 – 8 March 2026
🎟️ Full ticket €14; reduced €11
Sveva Caetani: Form and Fragment – MAXXI
At MAXXI, art meets memory in “Form and Fragment,” a project dedicated to the complex and fascinating figure of Sveva Caetani. Prominent is “Recapitulation,” a narrative and symbolic pictorial cycle that delves into family roots and the search for self. An opportunity to reflect on how the pictorial gesture can become visual autobiography.
📍Via Guido Reni, 4A
📅 Through January 4, 2026
🎟️ Full €14; Promo August Lazio residents €7
FLOWERS. From the Renaissance to Artificial Intelligence – Chiostro del Bramante
An emotional journey on flowers as universal symbols through 90 works over five centuries, from Jan Brueghel to contemporary digital, between art, science, immersive installations and environmental reflections.
📍Chiostro del Bramante, Arco della Pace, 5, 00186 Rome
📅 Through January 18, 2026
🎟️ Full price ticket €19; reduced price ticket (5-13 years old) €10