Rome Gallery of Modern Art

Rome Gallery of Modern Art tickets at the desk, and the days you go in free

The Rome Gallery of Modern Art (GAM) belongs to the city, and the only ticket is the one Roma Capitale, the city council, sells at the museum desk, online and by phone. We don’t sell it ourselves. On 28 October 2026 it cost €14.50 for visitors who don’t live in Rome, or €10 at the reduced rate, and it covers the permanent collection plus whatever exhibition is on.

That last part matters this winter. The centenary show, GAM 100, was due to close on 11 October and has been extended to 7 February 2027, so the price may move when the next exhibition opens after that. Rome’s residents have gone in free since February 2026, and some older websites still quote the lower prices from before then.

You don’t have to book. At the ticket desk you pay on the day, by cash or card, with no fee. Buying ahead, online or by phone on 060608, adds €1 and gets you a ticket that can’t be refunded or moved, so unless your day is fixed we’d keep it loose and pay at the door.

For a free or reduced ticket, bring an ID that proves it. The gallery also runs paid guided visits in several languages, booked ahead, and while GAM 100 is on, the ticket desk hires out a €4 audio guide in Italian and English.

Is the Rome Gallery of Modern Art worth a Roma Pass entry?

With the Roma Pass, the GAM can be one of your included entries: the 48-hour card has one and the 72-hour card two, and you decide at each site whether to spend one there. Once they’re used, the card gets you the €10 reduced ticket. You don’t have to book with the card, though the Roma Pass strongly recommends it, and booking is free at romapass.vivaticket.it or on 060608. At the gallery, you just show the card at the ticket desk.

Where to spend it is the real question. Other sites on the card have dearer tickets than the GAM’s €14.50, so if they’re on your list, we’d use the included entries there and pay the €10 here. And keep the card off the first Sunday of the month, when the gallery is free for everyone anyway.

The 24-hour Omnia Card and the Omnia Smart don’t cover the GAM, and nor do the Rome Tourist Card, the Vatican City Pass, Go City or the Turbopass. The Omnia Card page has everything the 72-hour version includes, and Roma Pass and Rome’s other city passes puts the cards side by side, with a calculator that tells you if one pays off for your list.

Inside the GAM: Roman and Italian art from the late 1800s to the post-war years

Past the ticket desk, the collection runs from the second half of the 19th century to the years after the Second World War, more than 3,000 works of Roman and Italian art. Among the names the gallery puts forward are Balla, Carrà, de Chirico, Guttuso, Morandi, Sironi, Depero and Donghi, the sculptors Manzù and Dazzi, and the painters of the Roman School, Scipione and Mafai among them.

Scipione’s The Dean Cardinal, from 1930, is a good way into the Roman School: a cardinal in red robes, painted with the dome of St Peter’s behind him, in the city where these artists worked.

Until 7 February 2027 the rooms are given over to GAM 100, which tells the gallery’s first century in more than 100 works from the collection, so what you see is laid out as the show, not as the permanent hang.

A Carmelite convent on Via Crispi, and the gallery’s first century

Those rooms were built for nuns. The building was a convent of Discalced, or barefoot, Carmelite nuns, put up in the 17th century next to the church of San Giuseppe a Capo le Case, and the gallery spreads over its three floors around the old courtyard.

The collection started out elsewhere. It began when the city bought works from the International Fine Arts Exhibition held in Rome in 1883, and the gallery was founded on 28 October 1925 in the Palazzo Caffarelli, up on the Capitoline Hill.

It took a while to settle here. Renamed the Galleria Mussolini in 1931, it closed in 1938 and reopened in 1949, then moved into the convent in 1995. A restoration closed it again in 2003, and the gallery you visit today is the one that reopened on 19 November 2011.

GAM opening hours, and the step-free door on Via Zucchelli

In its convent home, the hours are simple: the same every day it opens, and closed on Mondays.

On Wednesdays the half-price window falls in the last two hours, from 17:00, and with last entry at 18:30 you’d want to be at the desk in that first hour and a half.

The main entrance is at Via Francesco Crispi 24. For step-free access there’s a second door at Via Zucchelli 7, the side you reach coming from Via Sistina, which you book ahead by phone on 06 4742848, 06 4742904 or 06 4742909. The gallery has also run tactile explorations for blind visitors in 2026.

Getting to the GAM from Barberini or Spagna metro

The gallery is a short walk from metro line A. Get off at Barberini and walk to Largo del Tritone, where Via Francesco Crispi starts its climb, and the entrance is at number 24.

Spagna, the next stop on the same line, works as well, and from that side you come along Via Sistina, which is also the way to the step-free door on Via Zucchelli.