On May 17, 2025 , the Night of Museums, the European event that opens the doors of the most beautiful cultural venues at nightfall, returns. The capital will also participate in the 15th edition, from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. (last entry at 1 a.m.). The spaces of the Sistema Musei di Roma Capitale will be extraordinarily open to give the opportunity to admire the permanent collections and temporary exhibitions and to attend a rich program of concerts and live music, theater and dance performances, which you can find on the event’s official website.
For the symbolic cost of 1 euro you can visit:
- the Capitoline Museums;
- the Centrale Montemartini;
- the Mercati di Traiano – Museo dei Fori Imperiali;
- the Ara Pacis Museum;
- the Museum of Rome;
- the Napoleonic Museum;
- the Museum of Rome in Trastevere;
- the Pietro Canonica Museum in the Villa Borghese;
- the Museums of Villa Torlonia (Casina delle Civette, Casino Nobile, Serra Moresca);
- the Museum of the Walls;
- the Carlo Bilotti Museum – Villa Borghese Orangery;
- the Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture;
- the Civic Museum of Zoology;
- the Museum of the Roman Republic and Garibaldian Memory;
- the Gallery of Modern Art;
- the Archaeological Park of the Caelian;
- Villa of Maxentius;
- the Museum of Casal de’ Pazzi.
As Roma Culture communicates, with the one-euro admission ticket (unless otherwise indicated) you will be able to attend a rich program of events and live performances.
Instead, if you want to check out all the events scheduled in Italy for this special night, the Ministry of Culture website has dedicated a page to the initiative. You can find the initiatives scheduled not only in Lazio, but also in many other regions such as Piedmont, Emilia Romagna and Veneto. The present events are published in real time by the Peripheral Institutes of the Ministry, but it is always preferable to contact the contact details you can find in the relevant detail sheets of each place.