GAMM, the Video Game Museum of Rome

GAMM Video Game Museum of Rome tickets: one price for the whole day

GAMM, the Video Game Museum of Rome, is a museum where the exhibits are switched on and you play them, from Pac-Man and Space Invaders on arcade cabinets to home consoles and a virtual reality corner. Once you’re in, playing costs nothing extra, and there’s no time limit on any machine.

The ticket is just as relaxed. It’s valid for the date you pick, at any time of day, and you can step out and come back on the same day, so there’s no slot to book. You can buy it on the museum’s own ticket site, or just at the desk when you arrive.

Before you pay full price, look at the day and who’s coming. From Monday to Friday a group of four or more pays €10 each, and grandparents get a two-for-one: one child under 14 with one over-65 for €15, or two and two for €30. On a Tuesday, everyone pays €10.

If you’d like someone to show you round, the museum runs guided tours every half hour from 9:30 to 19:00, priced per group: €25 for up to four people, €50 for five to ten and €100 above that. You book them on the museum’s site at least 24 hours ahead, and since it doesn’t say whether that price covers entry, check when you book.

The Turbopass includes GAMM, and the Roma Pass gets you a lower price

GAMM is included in the Turbopass Rome City Pass, and since the museum doesn’t use time slots, you just turn up with the pass. The Roma Pass works differently: the museum lists it among its partner cards, with a ticket at €12 a head, and the people with you pay the same.

The museum’s list still names the Roma Pass by its old 24- and 48-hour versions, so if you have the 72-hour card, ask at the desk. On a Tuesday the card’s €12 is beaten anyway, because Happy Tuesday puts everyone in for €10. The Omnia Card, Go City, the Rome Tourist Card and the Vatican City Pass don’t include GAMM.

When you check a pass list, make sure it says GAMM and not the GAM, Rome’s Galleria d’Arte Moderna, a different museum on different terms. The Turbopass page has everything else that pass includes, and Roma Pass and Rome’s other city passes puts the cards next to each other.

Inside GAMM: the arcade cabinets, the home consoles and the GAMMDOME

GAMM fills about 700 square metres on two floors, the ground floor and the one below it, and the visit is split into three areas.

If you grew up in arcades, PARC is where to head: you walk from the 1970s classics to the machines of the early 2000s and play them as you go.

HIP covers the consoles people had at home, from the 1980s to today, and has a virtual reality area. The GAMMDOME tells the story of the medium inside six modular structures with 54 synchronised screens, a patented system that was first built here at GAMM.

The visit lasts as long as you keep playing. The museum puts the average visit at one to three hours, and says weekdays are quieter than weekends.

GAMM opening hours, and a stop before your train from Termini

GAMM is open every day from 9:30 to 19:30, weekends included, and on the public holidays listed on its site. Some ticket sites and older guides still give 23:30 on Fridays and Saturdays, but the museum’s own site now says 19:30 every day, so plan on that.

Being this close to Termini, GAMM fits into the hours before a train out of Rome or the trip to the airport. You can leave your luggage at the desk, and there’s a small corner with hot drinks and snacks for when you need a break from the screens.

Zelda fans have a date this autumn. From 5 November a Zelda game plays on the big screen, the main day is Sunday 8 November, and an exhibition stays open for three weeks after that. Birthday parties and evening parties happen too, by booking only.

Getting to GAMM from Termini or Repubblica metro

GAMM is on Via delle Terme di Diocleziano, a pedestrian street between Termini station and Piazza della Repubblica, so the last stretch is always on foot. Repubblica, on metro line A, is less than 100 metres away. Whichever way you get to Termini, by train, by metro or on one of its many buses, the walk from there takes about seven minutes.

How GAMM took over from Vigamus in December 2024

GAMM opened in December 2024, a few days before the 2025 Jubilee began. It took over from Vigamus, the video game museum Rome had had since 2012, which according to GAMM’s launch press release welcomed more than two million visitors.

The idea came from Marco Accordi Rickards, who ran Vigamus. GAMM is a private museum, recognised by the Lazio region in its register of museums and a member of ICOM, the International Council of Museums.