MAXXI, National Museum of 21st Century Arts

MAXXI tickets: prices at the museum and online

MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts, sells its tickets itself: at the ticket office in the museum, or online through Archeoares, the ticketing site the museum links to. Booking isn’t required, so you can turn up on the day, and buying online takes €1 off. We don’t sell a MAXXI ticket, so the prices below are the museum’s own.

Until 12 November 2026 there’s a special price of €10 for everyone, the cheapest way in while it lasts. After that, the full ticket goes back to €15 at the desk or €14 online.

The reduced ticket is for visitors aged 18 to 24, groups of 15 or more, and anyone holding a ticket from the Galleria Nazionale or the Jewish Museum of Rome. Several other cards and badges give it too, so bring the one you’re using with you. Entry is free on your birthday with an ID, for holders of the EU Disability Card and one companion, and for EU students of art and architecture from Tuesday to Friday, except public holidays.

If you’ve read about a 48-hour ticket, free entry to the collection from Tuesday to Thursday or a discount with a bus or metro ticket, those rules no longer appear on the museum’s page, and the transport discount ended on 18 October 2026. If your dates change, a dated ticket can be moved to another day for €2.50, up to 18:00 the day before.

MAXXI with the Roma Pass and the Omnia Card

MAXXI is on the Roma Pass list, so you can spend one of the card’s included entries here. It isn’t used automatically: you choose it at the museum, buying your ticket online or at the ticket office and showing the card. There’s no separate line for cardholders.

An included entry here is worth a €15 ticket, or only €10 while the special price runs to 12 November. The Colosseum, Castel Sant’Angelo and the Borghese Gallery have dearer tickets, so if they’re on your list we’d spend the card’s included entries there, and our page on Roma Pass and Rome’s other city passes does the sums for your own list.

Once the included entries are used, the card gets you the €12 reduced ticket, the same as the museum’s reduced price at the desk. The Omnia Card covers MAXXI only in its 72-hour version, through the Roma Pass inside it; the 24-hour Omnia, the Rome Tourist Card, the Vatican City Pass, Go City and the Turbopass don’t include it.

MAXXI opening hours and the rules inside the galleries

The one day to avoid is Monday, when MAXXI is shut. From Tuesday to Sunday it keeps the same hours, 11:00 to 19:00, and the ticket office stops selling an hour before closing, at 18:00. The only other days it closes are 1 May and 25 December.

MAXXI is set up for wheelchairs: there are accessible toilets on every floor, and gallery 5, on the third floor, has a ramp and its own lift, which you ask for at reception. Four wheelchairs wait at the cloakroom, and two of them can be booked two days ahead on +39 06 3201954. There are also baby-changing rooms on every floor, free Wi-Fi and a portable stool to borrow from the cloakroom.

What’s on at MAXXI this autumn and winter

Most of what you come to see changes through the year. Alongside the temporary shows, the museum’s permanent collection of art, architecture and photography has been on display since October 2015, in different arrangements over time.

Campo aperto is the ninth NATURE installation, and Vitalità dell’architettura italiana follows eighty years of Italian architecture since the Second World War. If you’d like someone talking you through it, the €3 audio guide has routes through the exhibitions; you buy a card at the ticket office and scan its QR code or enter its code on your phone.

Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI building, from army barracks to Stirling Prize

The same audio guide also has a route through the building, and for plenty of visitors the building is the main exhibit. Zaha Hadid, the architect who in 2004 became the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, won the international competition for it in 1998–99, against 273 proposals.

It went up on the site of the Caserma Montello, a former army barracks, and keeps parts of the old buildings. Hadid’s plan had five structures, only one was built, and building it took more than ten years. It opened on 28 May 2010 and won the RIBA Stirling Prize, the British award for the best new building, that same year.

Inside, the concrete galleries curve and overlap, and the stairways and walkways in the atrium cross at different heights. Look up as you go: steel and concrete beams run across the roof with skylights between them, bringing daylight down into the rooms.

Before or after the galleries, there’s a café and a restaurant inside the museum.

Getting to MAXXI: metro line A and tram 2

MAXXI is north of the historic centre, and the easy way there is metro line A to Flaminio, then tram 2 to the Apollodoro stop. The Roma Pass covers the city’s metro, trams and buses, so the whole trip is on the card.

From other parts of the city, buses 53 (stop De Coubertin/Palazzetto dello Sport), 168 (MAXXI–Reni/Flaminia), 280 (Mancini) and 910 (Reni/Flaminia) stop nearby, and the Museum Express runs here too. Coming by bike, you can leave it in the bike parking on the museum’s forecourt. For disabled visitors arriving by car, there are two dedicated parking spaces, on Via Guido Reni and Via Masaccio, where you can stay up to two hours.