Gallerie d'Italia Naples

Gallerie d’Italia Naples tickets, and who gets in free

The museum sells its own tickets, online and at the desk in the entrance hall, and recommends booking, though you don’t have to. A ticket costs €8, or €4 reduced, and a long list of visitors pays nothing, starting with everyone under 26.

From 6 November the museum has a new exhibition, Angelica e Élisabeth. L’età delle donne pittrici, on the age of women painters, running until 7 March 2027 at the same prices as the museum.

The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, Caravaggio’s last painting

Caravaggio finished the Martyrdom of Saint Ursula in May 1610, a few weeks before he died, and it opens the first-floor route. A cleaning in Naples by the restorers Laura Cibrario and Fabiola Jatta brought three figures back into view, and the painting now hangs in a frame that keeps its climate steady.

The painting came back to Naples on 1 August 2025 after a spell on loan, Rome among the stops, and went into a new room with its own lighting. On the staircase, Jacopo Foggini added an installation, La Nuvola e l’ombra, “the cloud and the shadow”.

Three routes: Neapolitan painting, Greek vases and the 20th century

The first-floor route, Da Caravaggio a Gemito, follows painting in Naples and the south from the 1600s to the early 1900s. After Saint Ursula come Artemisia Gentileschi’s Samson and Delilah, Luca Giordano’s Rape of Helen, three canvases by Bernardo Cavallino and a Judith and Holofernes by Louis Finson that copies a lost Caravaggio. The route reaches the 19th century with landscapes of the Posillipo school and the sculptures and drawings of Vincenzo Gemito.

The other two routes go in opposite directions in time. One shows the Caputi collection, more than 500 vases from Athens and Magna Graecia, the Greek colonies of southern Italy, made between the 5th and the 3rd century BC, found at Ruvo di Puglia and displayed complete for the first time. The other, Vitalità del tempo, is the 20th century, from Lucio Fontana and Alberto Burri to Piero Manzoni and Jannis Kounellis.

The Artecard at Gallerie d’Italia, and Naples’s other Caravaggios

The 7-day Campania Artecard counts the museum as one of its five included sites, and the 365 Gold gets you the reduced €4. If you’re under 26 you won’t need a card here at all. The Artecard also helps with Naples’s other two Caravaggios: Capodimonte, with the Flagellation, is included, and the Pio Monte della Misericordia, with the Seven Works of Mercy, gives card holders a discount. You’ll find the other cards on Naples Pass and Naples city passes.

Gallerie d’Italia opening hours, and the old bank on Via Toledo

The museum closes on Mondays and stays open later at weekends: 10:00 to 19:00 from Tuesday to Friday, and 10:00 to 20:00 on Saturday and Sunday, with the last entry an hour before closing. The cloakroom on the ground floor is free, and there’s a bookshop and a bistro, Luminist, run by the chef Giuseppe Iannotti. For an audio guide, use the museum’s app, which knows which room you’re in.

The building is the former Banco di Napoli, designed by Marcello Piacentini from late 1938 and opened on 9 May 1940, after 13 months of work. It stands on part of the old San Giacomo complex that the Spanish viceroy Pedro de Toledo began in 1534, and Michele De Lucchi converted it into Gallerie d’Italia, which opened in 2022. Some guides still send you to Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano nearby, the museum’s home until 2022.

Via Toledo 177: the metro, the funicular and the buses

Metro line 1 has two stops close by, Toledo and Municipio; the Funicolare Centrale stops at Augusteo, and buses E6 and R2 at Teatro San Carlo. The museum has its own accessibility service, on napoliaccessibile@gallerieditalia.com, and there are baby-changing facilities.