Museum of Rome in Trastevere

Museum of Rome in Trastevere tickets: the museum and its exhibitions on one ticket

The Museum of Rome in Trastevere has a single ticket, and it covers both the permanent collection and the exhibitions on at the time. We don’t sell it. You buy it at the ticket office on Piazza Sant’Egidio, in cash or by card and with no fee. You can also buy ahead on Vivaticket, the ticketing site of Rome’s city museums, or by phone on 060608, and both of those add €1 a ticket.

The price went up on 28 October 2026, the day the exhibition The Thin Line opened, so other sites quoting €7.50 or €9.50 are out of date. If you read that the museum is free, that’s for people who live in Rome and its metropolitan area: they’ve gone in free with ID since 2 February 2026, while visitors pay.

There’s nothing to book and no time slot, so you can simply buy your ticket at the door on the day. Tickets bought ahead can’t be refunded or moved, so that also keeps your day flexible.

Groups of 5 to 25 people can book for free on 060608, with at least five tickets bought in advance, and skip the queue at the ticket office. Guided tours in several languages, either of the museum or of the exhibition, are booked on the same number and paid for separately.

Roesler Franz’s vanished Rome and the museum’s permanent collection

The collection shows how ordinary Romans lived in the late 18th and the 19th centuries: what they wore, how they danced, their religious and secular festivals and the trades they worked in, told through paintings, prints, drawings and watercolours. At its heart is Roma sparita, “vanished Rome”, the series of watercolours by Ettore Roesler Franz (1845–1907), a painter who recorded the city before the building works that came with it becoming Italy’s capital.

The Porto di Ripetta above, painted in 1888, was a river port on the Tiber, and walking from one watercolour to the next you’re looking at streets and riverbanks like it that have gone.

Look out as well for the Stanza di Trilussa, an installation about Trilussa, the poet who wrote in the Roman dialect, and for the dioramas, small model scenes of Roman life. There’s a bookshop too.

The photography exhibitions at the Museum of Rome in Trastevere this autumn

Your ticket also takes you into the temporary exhibitions, photography above all, which change through the year. What you see depends on when you go, and this autumn three are on at once.

Leave your camera in your bag in these rooms. Photos for your own use are fine in the permanent collection, but not in the temporary exhibitions.

The Museum of Rome in Trastevere with the Roma Pass

The Roma Pass covers the museum in one of two ways, and you choose which at the museum. You either use one of the card’s included entries, the only one on the 48-hour card or one of the two on the 72-hour card, or you pay the reduced price. The museum says the included entry covers the exhibition on as well, and there’s nothing to book.

The Rome Tourist Card, the Vatican City Pass, the Turbopass and Go City don’t include the museum, and the 24-hour Omnia Card has no Roma Pass in it. The 72-hour Omnia Card page lists everything that one does cover.

Before you spend an included entry here, look at the rest of your list. The Colosseum and Castel Sant’Angelo have dearer tickets, so an entry is worth more there, and on 6 December the museum is free for everyone anyway. The Roma Pass calculator works out which sites to put the entries on, and Roma Pass and Rome’s other city passes compares the cards.

Museum of Rome in Trastevere opening hours and the cloakroom

The museum opens six days a week, Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 20:00, and the last entry is an hour before closing, at 19:00. On 24 and 31 December it closes at 14:00, and it’s shut on Mondays, 1 May and 25 December.

From Carmelite convent to the Museum of Rome in Trastevere

The building was the convent of Sant’Egidio, home to Discalced, or barefoot, Carmelite nuns. The order built several convents in Rome after Teresa of Ávila was made a saint in 1622, and this one was enclosed, with its own church, Santi Crispino e Crispiniano, once called San Biagio. The nuns lived here until 1870, when Rome was taken from the Pope and joined to Italy. The cloister in the photo above, which you walk through on your visit, keeps fragments of medieval churches that were demolished.

After restoration it opened in 1977 as the Museum of Folklore and of the Roman Dialect Poets, which is why Trilussa still has a room. It reopened in 2000, after more works, under its current name.

Walking to the Museum of Rome in Trastevere from Piazza Santa Maria

Trastevere has no metro station, so the last stretch is on foot through the neighbourhood. The museum is on Piazza Sant’Egidio, right beside Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere: from the church square it’s a few steps to the convent’s front door.