Centrale Montemartini

Centrale Montemartini tickets: the combo with the Capitoline Museums

The Centrale Montemartini belongs to the Capitoline Museums, but it doesn’t share their ticket: you pay for it separately, and there’s nothing to book. Until 15 November 2026 the ticket also includes Moda in luce 1955-1975, the temporary exhibition. Since February 2026, residents of Rome and its metropolitan area go in free, with a document to prove it.

What we sell is a combo for this museum and the main one on the Capitoline Hill: the Capitoline Museums and the Centrale Montemartini for €50. It comes with skip-the-line entry at both, all their exhibitions, a multimedia video on ancient Rome, help at the Touristation Aracoeli office and the Rome City audio guide app. Children have their own rate, €37, and infants go in at no cost.

The combo can be cancelled up to 24 hours ahead, and it doesn’t include either museum’s own audio guide or a guided tour.

Centrale Montemartini with the Roma Pass: one of your included entries

Yes. The Centrale Montemartini counts as one of the Roma Pass’s included entries, and the museum’s ticket page points tourists to the card. The 48-hour card has one included entry and the 72-hour card two, so you can spend one here and keep the other for somewhere else.

The museum doesn’t say whether the included entry covers Moda in luce until 15 November, or what you pay with the card once your entries are used, so ask at the ticket office. The 72-hour Omnia Card gets you in the same way, through the Roma Pass inside it, for adults.

The other Omnia Cards, the Rome Tourist Card, the Vatican City Pass, Go City and the Turbopass don’t include the Centrale Montemartini. For how all of them compare, see Roma Pass and Rome’s other city passes. Out here the Roma Pass has a second use, because it also covers the metro and buses that bring you down Via Ostiense.

Getting to the Centrale Montemartini on Via Ostiense

The museum stands at Via Ostiense 106, in the Ostiense district, outside the historic centre, so plan it as a trip of its own. The simplest way is metro line B to Garbatella or Piramide, then a walk along Via Ostiense to the old power station.

Buses 23 and 769 stop in the area too, and Ostiense railway station is close by.

When the Centrale Montemartini is open: Tuesday to Sunday

Apart from a short day on 24 and 31 December, the hours are the same all year, and the last entry is an hour before closing.

The museum asks visitors to check its notices page before going, since that’s where closures for works or events appear. The hours for 1 January 2027 haven’t been published yet.

Roman statues among the Centrale Montemartini’s steam engines

Upstairs, in the Sala Macchine, the engine hall on the first floor, ancient sculpture found in the monumental centre of Rome stands between the steam engines and turbines. Franco Tosi, an engine maker from Legnano in northern Italy, built the machines, and they were left where they stood when the museum moved in.

In the Boiler Room, the old boiler’s steel frame rises over two Roman floor mosaics. One shows a hunting scene, the other the abduction of Proserpina, the goddess carried off to the underworld by Pluto, with statues standing around them.

From Rome’s first municipal power station to the Capitoline Museums’ second site

The power station opened on 30 June 1912, inaugurated by Ernesto Nathan, Rome’s mayor. It was the first plant of the city’s own electricity company, the forerunner of Acea, the utility that still supplies Rome. The engineer Corrado Puccioni designed it, and it takes its name from Giovanni Montemartini, the city councillor behind the company.

It was shut down in the 1960s, and in 1997 the Capitoline Museums moved part of their sculpture here. Many of the pieces had come out of the ground in the late 19th century, in the excavations that followed Rome becoming Italy’s capital.